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Abstract

The emerging network society (in a broad sense) actualizes the demand for the processes of self-organization of social systems within management schemes, increasing the importance of the communicative effectiveness of public/municipal management. And this sets new formats in modern public administration, which is mastering the alphabet of "directed influence", the factors of "smart", "soft" regulation and coordination of public processes that reduce the negative potential of the contradiction between the monopolism of administrative and bureaucratic power structures and the growing variety of civil initiatives in the public sphere. From the point of view of the network approach, we are witnessing the maturation in new conditions of a fundamental contradiction between the need to preserve the solidity (sovereignty) of the vertical of state power and the inexorably growing civil and social pluralism that is calling to life the emerging network society. The complex nature of state power in the current time of transition is most often a mixture of domination and leadership on the one hand, acceptance and submission on the other. This determines a change in the nature of public administration in the direction of co-governance. The growing autonomy and multi-vector nature of public participation in these conditions are increasingly focused on updating the concepts of co-management and coordination as the main forms of managerial influence, which presuppose the interdependence and interest of actors in joint actions. The advantage of joint actions lies in the synergy effect, a kind of "added value" obtained as a result of such actions, which significantly reduce social tension and conflict potential of interaction. The communicative format of interaction increasingly appeals to dialogical means of communication, which imply flexibility and targeted adaptability of network communication mechanisms of interaction. The article presents the results of a social study of the state of practices of social and communicative involvement in the process of public policy in two regions of the Russian Federation - Vologda and Yaroslavl, conducted in 2024. It is shown that the two regions as a whole implement two different scenarios of social and communicative involvement in public policy: Vologda region - an activist format of co–participating management, Yaroslavl region - on the contrary, followed the path of formalization and ritualization of this kind of interaction, minimizing open public dialogue, relying on the priority of only government decisions and communications