Institute Of Public Discussion Of Draft Regulatory Legal Acts As One Of The Mechanisms Of E-Democracy Action And Its Role In The Formation Of A Civil Society In Russia

This study is intended to highlight the relevance, problems and frequent gaps of the current legislation and to urge for further research aimed at improving the mechanisms of e-democracy, expanding their system, filling gaps in Russian legislation. The methodological basis of the research is the dialectical, historical-legal, system-structural, structural-functional methods. Results: the article shows the role of the institute of public discussion of drafts of normative legal acts in the formation and functioning of civil society; identified mechanisms for engaging citizens in the lawmaking process, including the Internet. Information relations are presented by the authors as public relations, regulated not only by the norms of information law, but also by the norms of a number of branches of law. Conclusion: Although the discussion of draft regulatory legal acts isn't mentioned in the Concept of Development of E-democracy Mechanisms in Russia, it's inherently capable of being a mechanism for network communication of citizens and collective discussion of socially significant problems and issues of social and political topics on-line. In addition, discussions of their nature can be identified as mechanisms for network communication of citizens with the authorities, including tools to influence decision making and civilian oversight of the activities of the authorities. The Russian Federation is following the path of widespread involvement of information technologies in the public-power sphere, but the pace of their implementation by the authorities isn't sufficient. Thus, only one federal portal of draft legal acts function in the country (the official site for posting information on the preparation by federal executive apparatus of draft regulatory legal acts and the results of their public discussion) http://regulation.gov.ru, and few of them knows from among ordinary citizens. In addition, the public comment institute is subject to mandatory distribution not only at the federal level, but also in the regions and in the municipalities. At the regional and local levels, you should create your own Internet resources in order to quickly and efficiently orient in an infinite amount of regulatory legal acts. Methodology: The methodological basis of the research is the dialectical, historical-legal, system-structural, structural-functional methods.