Improving the system of strategic planning for national development in the Russian Federation

Abstract

The article presents the author's position on the meaning and importance of strategic planning in public administration. The work analyzes various definitions of strategic planning and proposes considering state strategic planning in both narrow and broad sense. The author formulated definitions of strategic planning and its manifestations - state strategic planning. The article discusses the relationship between program-targeted and project-based approaches to strategic planning and determines their advantages and disadvantages. The author pays attention to some problems in the existing legislation, where two parallel systems of regulation of strategic planning coexist: one system provided by the Law on Strategic Planning and the other by subordinate legislation. During the study, a number of other problems concerning strategic planning were identified: the absence of strategic planning documents from among those provided for in the Law on Strategic Planning; the delayed adoption of planning documents, indicating a lack of consciousness of the value of the temporary resource; insufficient level of transparency in strategic planning (numerous acts are not published); an excessive amount of programming and design documents, many of which contradict or duplicate each other, resulting in bureaucratization; violation of the unity in strategic planning, when regional and municipal strategic planning documents do not consider the goals and objectives of national development; non-compliance with municipal specifics in regional strategic planning documents. The author offers recommendations for solving the identified problems.