PRACTICE OF INITIATIVE BUDGETING AT THE MUNICIPAL LEVEL Becher Veronica Vissarionovna, PhD at law. <...> Place of employment: Russian Economics University named after G.V.Plekhanov. <...> E-mail: bekher@mail.ru Annotation: In recent years need of participation of citizens for the budget process doesn't raise doubts. <...> The various programs stimulating involvement of the population in the budget process as at the federal, and regional and local levels are for this purpose developed. <...> Among them a specific place is held by the initiative budgeting which was widely adopted at the level of municipalities. <...> В этих целях разрабатываются разнообразные программы, стимулирующие вовлечение населения в бюджетный процесс, как на федеральном, так и региональном и местном уровнях. <...> Среди них особое место занимает инициативное бюджетирование, получившее широкое распространение на уровне муниципалитетов! <...>