Assessment of the status of the representative and executive bodies of local self-government in Russia and the U.S. in legal and social aspects

The global trend of development of local self-government aims to strengthen the executive at the beginning of local affairs management.In the U.S.it is expressedin the dominance ofbusinessof themunicipal administration, in Russia it is expressed inthe hopesof local peoplelayingonlocal executive authorities.The author notesthe crisis of democratic agency at the municipallevel