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Assessment of the present-day options of administrative and territorial division of the Russian Federation

Available online: 12 June 2014

Subject Heading: ADMINISTRATIVE-TERRITORIAL SYSTEM

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Pages: 29-37

The article deals with approaches to administrative and territorial division of the state, including the criteria of intrusion, regulation and federalism (on a basis of some certain ideas of the Russian Federation reforming). A problem of management comprises two subproblems: the country's division into districts and development of powers. The author has analyzed the value of budgetary power as the main one in the system of "center - 1st rank region", "1st rank region - 2nd rank region". The author considers a problem of the "golden mean" of budgetary relations: a balance between economic decentralization (a risk of loss of sovereignty, non-performance of large-scale national tasks) and overcentralization (conservatism, lag in development, irregularity of the country's development).

Keywords: administrative and territorial division, models, interbudgetary relations, economic centralization, economic decentralization, federalism, unitarism

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