The concept of local self-government in political and legal thought of the Russian Empire in the XIX century

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The concept of local self-government in political and legal thought of the Russian Empire in the XIX century

Journal Title: Право та державне управління - Year 2018, Vol 1, Issue 3

Abstract

The article deals with the problems of the concept of local self-government in the political and legal thought of the Russian Empire in the XIX century. It was determined that the Russian legal thought was influenced by the English experience, which was probably perceived inadequately. In the absence of its own Russian-language term, which would define the phenomenon of self-government. From the middle of the XIX century. a literal translation from English “self-government” began to be used by Russian specialists. It is shown that in the middle of the XIX century. in the Russian Empire, the term self-government was absent in the political and legal lexicon, but there was such a thing as “zemstvo”. It is analyzed that in the 70-80s of the XIX century. most intensely engaged in the theoretical aspects of self-government A.D. Gradovsky, who was one of the first to draw a clear distinction between the two key concepts of «decentralization» and “self-management”, deriving the second from the first.

Authors and Affiliations

Є. О. Бутирін

Keywords

local government state administration self-governing institutions zemstvos self-government local self-government communal theory

EP ID EP668210
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