Institute of authority redistribution: «Audacity of hope», or the end of the Russian self-government illusions

This research paper is about the conceptual, theoretical and practical aspects of legal institute of authority redistribution between local government bodies and the bodies of the Russian Federation state power. Prerequisites for introduction, the content and the expert estimates of specified legal Institute prospects are investigated in the paper. From the goal-setting theory position in the research the main objectives have been formulated for the achievement of which the local self-government was included in the state system mechanism of the Russian Federation and the author's vision of the hierarchy of these purposes has been offered. Considering the hierarchy of local self-government objectives the attempt to estimate the prospects of improvement the authority redistribution mechanism between local self-government bodies and the bodies of the Russian Federation state power is made and also to formulate the prediction of rather probabilistic results of the analyzed legal institute introduction to the local self-government modern system.