Strategic cycle’ of public administration in the context of the multimodality principle and the idea of a "viable" state

Abstract

The research considers three ideal models of Public Administration (rational bureaucracy, New Public Management, New Governance) and corresponding ideas of the state («strong», «effective», «inclusive»). Using these three models as a matrix that defines a «coordinate system», the authors analyze the «trajectory» and the results of administrative reforms in Russia over the past 15 years. The thesis is proposed that the modern Russian state should become a «multimodal state», using the tools of all three ideal models of state management, depending on the nature of the challenges and problems to be solved. At the same time, in order to develop consistent requirements for the procedures of state management for a «multimodal state», a «common denominator» is needed in the form of an integrating model that would focus on formal characteristics of management processes. Acknowledgment: The work is based on the results of the research «Problems of the strategic cycle in the system of public administration: optimization of mechanisms for the development and implementation of solutions», carried out by the authors in SIC Public Policy and Public Administration Institute of Social Sciences RANEPA at the President of the Russian Federation on the state task of the Government of the Russian Federation. The authors thank their colleagues for their joint work and useful discussions, while leaving exclusively for themselves full responsibility for all the shortcomings of this article.