Political Parties and Other Public Associations as Holders of Public Authority

The article is dedicated to an analysis of the role of political parties and public associations in general in the system of public authority in Russia. Public associations, primarily parties, are viewed as a civil society institution that takes part in exercising public authority. The author reviews tendencies of increased complexity of relations between public associations and bodies of public authority, establishment of a social subsystem of public authority. The paper arrives at a conclusion on the need to expand the constitutional and legal regulation of such relations, gives recommendations.