Monitoring Democracy: Building New Relations Between State and Society

Among new approaches to rethinking the nature of relations between society and state institutions the concept of monitoring democracy is of prior importance: it does not limit itself to the political space, but penetrates into different spheres of social life. The author analyzes the monitoring democracy concept and pays special attention to its practical outcomes. An important part of the article is dedicated to the analysis of contradictory, but mostly positive trends that permit to assert the implementation of some traits of monitoring democracy in contemporary social and political life in Russia. A full-fledged implementation of this model could lead to qualitative changes in the overall relations between state and society.