Territorial communities consolidation route

The paper addresses the problem on the consolidation of local communities, by which authors refer to the purposefully organized and regulated process of strengthening interpersonal and intergroup ties in a community. By consolidation route, the authors understand the process of mass consciousness modification of the territorial community, consisting in the successive (step-by-step) approval of the prerequisites for the assimilation of the consolidation idea as a behavioural norm. At each stage, however, bifurcation points and risks of not achieving the planned results are likely to emerge. Regulation in this case involves the application of point effects in bifurcation situations, the creation of conditions for movement in the desired direction, and the motivation of various groups of the territorial community to pass the route.