Nikovskaya L. I., Yakimets V. N. Municipal public policy: the Vologda region case. Social and political researches. 2024;1(22): 51-67. (In Russ). http: ...

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Abstract

The article presents the results of a sociological study of municipal public policy in the Vologda Region, using the example of the Vologda City District and the Vologda Municipal District, which joined the process of municipal transformations associated with the transition to a single–level system of organizational and territorial structure of local government. It is shown that a discontinuous type of public policy has developed in the Vologda City district, associated with the passive position of local authorities, waiting for a transitional situation and taking a passive position, which negatively affects the quality of interaction with representatives of small and medium-sized businesses. Vologda Municipal District, which is included in the process of municipal transformations, has formed the most strategically correct type of municipal public policy - partnership, which allows using the business and civil resources of local communities in order to make a smoother and constructive transition to a new model of municipal government and reduce the cost of representing the public interests of the main target groups of intersectoral interaction in the field of public policy. In this regard, the stylistic result of choosing to carry out social changes is very important: – based on dialogue and partnership principles of interaction with business and civic initiatives, the local community as a whole, in order to mitigate possible dysfunctions of municipal transformations and discontinuous moments of municipal public policy, or relying on a purely technological and administrative approach.