The experience of studying the openness of regional parliamentarism institution in Russia

The article presents the author‘s approach to assessing the democracy of regional political regimes in Russia by analyzing the openness of legislative (representative) state authorities of the subjects of the Federation. A broad interpretation of the openness of the regional parliament is given, including the openness of decision-making process, legislative work, feedback from citizens, social accessibility of parliament, guarantees of equality of parliamentary parties on regional television, radio and the internal openness of parliament. The article presents the author‘s methodology for assessing the openness of regional parliaments, based on a comparison of their practices with the identifi practices of openness of the Federal Assembly, the totality of which the author proposes to consider as reference for the current level of political development of the country. The results of the calculations of the level of openness are analyzed both in criteria and in spatial dimensions. A comparison of the rating of regions by this indicator in 2020 and 2021 indicates a gradual increase in the openness of regional parliaments. At the same time, the author comes to the conclusion that the results obtained do not allow us to speak about a high level of openness of regional legislatures, since most of them demonstrate average indicators. The leaders of openness were also identifi who received maximum points, but still lag behind the level of openness of the Federal Assembly. At the same time, they demonstrate maximum performance in the areas of political openness, which allows us to speak of them as parliaments open to their voters.