PEOPLE’S REPRESENTATION AND LOCAL SELF-GOVERNMENT - TWO SCIENTIFIC PASSIONS OF PROFESSOR V. I. FADEEV

Abstract

In the year of the 70th anniversary of the birth of the outstanding Soviet and Russian scientist Vladimir Ivanovich Fadeev, the author turns to his scientific ideas, comprehending the ways of their development and the possibility of application in modern Russia. The most notable works from the extensive scientific heritage of Professor V. I. Fadeev are devoted to the problems of national representation and local self-government. First of all, he turned to the origins of the people's representation and elections and saw them in the conciliarity and Symphony of the authorities as the spiritual and moral principles of the functioning of the government, its interaction with the people. The article identifies some of the problems that Professor V. I. Fadeev put in his works and the author’s view on possible ways to improve people's representation and elections, local government in the context of the development of V. I. Fadeev’s ideas.