The objective of the research is to prove features of civil control realization in modern political process (on the example of Volgograd region) on the basis of the analysis of stages of its institutionalization in modern Russia. The tasks of the research are to operationalize “civil control”, to designate stages of the civil control institute formation at the federal and regional levels in the Russian Federation, to interpret the features of civil control realization in the modern political process in Volgograd region. The methodological bases of the research are western neoinstitutional developments (J. March and Y. Olsen’s standard neoinstitutionalism) allowing to reveal the interrelation between the formal norms and the informal rules while civil control being realized. Besides, they enable us to define the ways of interaction between public authorities and the society.

civil control, institutionalization, political process, elections, Volgograd region

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