MUNICIPAL MANAGEMENT IN THE SOUTH OF RUSSIA: MANAGERIAL TOOLS ENSURING EFFICIENCY AUTHORSHIP INTRODUCTION Aleksandr V. Dyatlov In modern Russian society municipal Doctor of Sociological Sciences, Professor, Head of the management plays very important role. The Department of Economic Sociology and Regional quality of life of the population depends on its Management, Southern Federal University, Rostov-on-Don, Russia. efficiency, which is ensured by social housing, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5914-4744 landscaping, organization of urban transport E-mail:
[email protected] schedule and housing and communal services. Vitaly V. Kovalev The importance of the management activities of municipal authorities predetermined the Doctor of Sociological Sciences, Associate Professor of the Department of Theoretical Sociology and Methodology of Regional Studies, increased interest in it from legislators. In the Southern Federal University, Rostov-on-Don, Russia. end of the 1980s, the search for the most ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8439-3117 optimal model of local self-government, which E-mail:
[email protected] would have the necessary potential to solve Svetlana A. Tikhonovskova the assigned tasks, had been begun. In the first Candidate of Economic Sciences, Associate Professor of the Department projects there was an idea of solving the of Humanities and Social Sciences, Platov South-Russian State Polytechnic University (NPI), Novocherkassk, Russia. problem in a comprehensive manner: to provide local authorities with administrative ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6085-2403 E-mail:
[email protected] autonomy from the state and give them the necessary amount of resources as a condition Elena L. Kharitonova for increasing managerial efficiency.