A package of amendments to the federal law on local self-government introduced in 2014 has had a major impact on the formation of new institutional design of local authorities. The key areas of institutional changes were the introduction of management models, excluding the direct elections of heads of municipalities by the population, at the same time endowed with the status of the heads of administrations and replacing them with a model of city manager. Legislative novels of 2015 expanded the range of models of management variability by municipalities and proposed options for the elections of heads of municipalities, authorized heads of administration and deputies, were actively used by the regional authorities for the implementation in practice of the organization of municipal management in different areas. The general trend of structural and personnel changes in the organization of the local government areas of the Central Chernozem Region is its further integration into the "vertical of power".
local government, mayor, city manager, reform
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