Search for Constructive Solutions (experience of constitutional and legal studies in the area of participation in managing the state affairs)

Review. The article highlights scientific and methodological aspects of the experience the Department of Constitutional and Municipal Law of the Institute of the State and Law at the Tyumen State University gained in the field of collective research with regard to the right to participate in managing state affairs guaranteed under Art. 32 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation. The author describes the evolution of the Department methodological approaches to the named topic: starting with writing monographs to carrying out complex interdisciplinary projects financed by Russian scientific foundations. The Paper presents a review of the subject. However, it highlights the major theoretical approaches to the study of the citizens' access to the state management. The paper is structured in accordance with three major areas of research: procedural interaction between the civil society and the state in a mixed "state-public area"; the access of individuals to exercising foreign policy of the state; and meaningful expression of discontent of citizens with decisions and actions of public authorities.

management, state affairs, participation, meaningful protest, access to exercising the policy, public authorities, associations, state-public bodies, state and civil society, interaction, freedom of expression, citizen'sfilings, methodology, research

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