DOI: 10.7256/2454-0706.2021.9.36380

Abstract: The object of this research is corruption among the representative bodies of municipalities as a separate significant phenomenon from the perspective of criminology. The subject of this research is the norms of international and Russian legislation that regulate the legal status of the representative bodies of municipalities in the Russian Federation, as well as scientific work of the experts in criminology, constitutional, municipal and criminal law, which allow disclosing the key characteristics of corruption among the representative bodies of municipalities. The goal of this article lies in formation of holistic view of corruption among the representative bodies of municipalities. The task is set to examine and analyze the legislation and scientific literature on the activity of the representative bodies of municipalities and their members (deputies), determine the key attributes of corruption among the representative bodies of municipalities, as well as establish this negative sociopolitical and legal phenomenon. The scientific novelty consists in studying the peculiarities of corruption among the representative bodies of municipalities, describing the key characteristic features of this phenomenon (sphere of existence, constituencies, scope of objectives), and giving the working definition to the concept of corruption among the representative bodies of municipalities. The acquired results lead to the conclusion that corruption in the representative bodies of municipalities is a complex and multifaceted phenomenon that negatively impacts the activity of a particular municipality, as well as the system of local administration overall.

DOI: 10.7256/2454-0595.2018.4.26568

Abstract: The subject of the research is the official websites of municipal units in England and Canada and particular features of posting municipal acts there. The research involved methods of continuous and sampling observation depending on different criteria: title of the website sector that contains municipal acts, location of a sector containing municipal acts on a municipal unit's website, methods of displaying acts in a sector, search box for quick search inside a sector, quantity of located acts, date of the first and last acts, and others. The author has applied the dialectical method as well as the system structure, formal law and other methods of research. The results of monitoring of openness and accessibility of municipal acts on official sites of England and Canada demonstrate that in Canada the majority of municipal acts is demonstrated on official sites of municipal units. At the same time, all municipal units, especially within one province, lack the single method of act location. Unlike Canada, the majority of official sites of municipal units in England do not post municipal acts at all. Despite the fact that openness and accessibility of information about activity of state and municipal authorities is quite a nettlesome issue today, especially for the global society, in reality most of the questions that relate to openness and accessibility of municipal units remain unregulated.