Trust of Civil Society to Public Authorities of the Russian Federation

Abstract

One of the important aspects of ensuring national and state security, the territorial integrity of Russia is the trust of civil society in the state and its public bodies. Accordingly, the normal (without civil wars, coups, revolutions) development of the state is possible only if the citizens of the country have confidence in the bodies of state power and local self-government. Therefore, the need to analyze the means of ensuring the mandate of people's trust and forms of expressing distrust substantiates the relevance of the study. The author raises issues of institutional and personalized trust, solidarity and loyalty, as well as mistrust. Institutional trust is understood as the conviction of civil society in the reasonableness and fairness of the constitutional system, the structure of existing state bodies, their powers and functions. Under the personified - the trust of citizens to the representatives of the people. Distrust is seen as a form of social exclusion. Only genuine trust presupposes solidarity and loyalty of citizens towards the state and the state-legal system. The main instrument for achieving this goal has been and remains competitive elections based on universal, equal and direct suffrage by secret ballot. As a result of the analysis, a conclusion is made about the need for general trust of civil society in the state, in the presence of institutional and constitutional guarantees for the possibility of expressing fragmented distrust.