power,
state,
participation of the population,
information society,
public administration
Abstract
The article analyzes modern conceptual approaches that justify the need to expand the participation of the population in the management of state affairs. The author systematizes the reasons for the appearance of these concepts: the strengthening of the information type of society, changes in the nature of power, challenges to the state as a political institution, the crisis of representative democracy institutions. The modern models of public administration and the approaches proposed in them to the practical application of the mechanisms of public participation in the management of state affairs are generalized. The author notes the validity of the need for further development of these mechanisms and its risks associated, including, with the very conceptual approaches to the participation of the population in the management of state affairs, as well as the unresolved individual issues that they have.
