Local authorities and entrepreneurship: a sociological analysis of the cooperation problems

Abstract

There are many unsolved problems in the interaction system of the local government and institutions of the state administration and society in Russia that negatively affect the social and economic conditions and the function of the municipalities. The quality level of the solutions of these problems does not always satisfy the local population, as well as the business entities working on its territory. Entrepreneurship in modern conditions is not only a subject of the economic relations, but also an active social force, the interests of which apply to the issues of the socio-economic development of the territory where its activities are carried out. This determines the necessity of the interaction between the local authorities and businesses to address various issues in which their interests overlap. The study of such problems is very important from the point of view of the analysis of the social results of the development processes of the entrepreneurship institute at the local level and the role of the local government in it. Some significant issues of the interaction between the local governments and entrepreneurship in the Russian Federation based on the research, conducted by the sociological group of the Institute of Public Administration and Management of the RANEPA in 2014 are considered in the article.