The direct implementation of local government and participation in its implementation: problems of limitation and classification

The article analyzes the approaches to the classification of forms of public law activity of the population of municipalities, highlighted the legal criteria for classification data. The problem of the validity of making additions to Part 5 of the Federal Law No. 131-FZ by fixing new forms of public law activity in the form of a special hotel article; The authors' theoretical positions regarding the distinction between forms of direct democracy and forms of participation in the exercise of powers of public authorities are considered. Identified signs of forms of direct implementation of local government, which can be used as criteria for distinguishing between forms of public law activity of the population of the municipality; the author suggests a classification of the forms of direct implementation of local self-government in its implementation in the aggregate of legal criteria, which are divided into three subgroups.