DEMOCRATISM AS FUNDAMENTAL PROPERTY LOCAL GOVERNMENT The article considers the speci c characteristics of local government, describing its democracy. <...> Moreover, the importance of local government as the key institutions of the political system, without which it is impossible to ensure the e ective functioning of democratic mechanisms in the entire state. <...> K e y w o r d s: local self-government, municipal democracy, the independence of local self-government, bodies of local self-government. <...> В статье рассматриваются специфические признаки местного самоуправления, характеризующие его демократизм. <...>