Кузнецова Полина Юрьевна

The article analyzes the theoretical and regulatory framework of accessibility and quality of public and municipal services. The problems of theoretical uncertainty of these concepts and the lack of their differentiation in legal acts are noted. Based on the analysis of administrative regulations for the provision of public services and sectoral legislation governing the provision of social services, the problems of different interpretations of the criteria of accessibility and quality of public services. Conclusions about the need to change approaches to assessing the quality and availability of public and municipal services on the basis of theoretical and legal differentiation of these concepts, the establishment of unity of requirements for the development of criteria for assessing the quality of public and municipal services as the basis for assessing the level of satisfaction of citizens.

In article approaches to definition of the subject of local self-government the population of municipal unit are analyzed. Theoretical uncertainty of this concept is noted. The possibility of application of sociological theories, in particular, of structuralist and constructivist approach, to the analysis of local community as special actor of local self-government is investigated. The local community is considered as a legal concept and social group, its key characteristics are revealed. The analysis of the ideas of representatives of structuralist and constructivist approach allowed to define limits and the conditions of application of this methodology to a research of local community.