Vol. 13 No. 1 (2011)
Published: January 15, 2011
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Development of information society and the fight against corruption, increased efficiency of budget spending and public service reform, development of interbudgetary relations and improved delineation of authority are only possible through interaction between authorities on all levels, the expert community, citizens and businesses. The Concept of Lowering Administrative Barriers and Increasing Accessibility of Government Services for 2011-2013 developed by the Ministry of Economic Development by order of the Russian Government is aimed to support such cooperation.
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Development of information society and the fight against corruption, increased efficiency of budget spending and public service reform, development of interbudgetary relations and improved delineation of authority are only possible through interaction between authorities on all levels, the expert community, citizens and businesses. The Concept of Lowering Administrative Barriers and Increasing Accessibility of Government Services for 2011-2013 developed by the Ministry of Economic Development by order of the Russian Government is aimed to support such cooperation.
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The author analyzes the effectiveness and efficiency of legal regulation of public service, identifying problem areas: insufficient focus on goals and priorities of government bodies; lack of a scientifically grounded and tested methodology for the enforcement of public service legislation; deficiency of federal laws regulating the policy of social protection of public servants.
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p. 14-14
New book. Sergey Shakhray. The System of State and Municipal Management: a Training Course, by I. Bartsits
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The author provides an analysis of anti-corruption legal regulations. The transformation of the public administration system involves the creation of a mechanism that will ensure maximum transparency in the use of public resources and curb the possibility of corruption. The methodology for prevention of offences and crimes is demonstrated by the example of legal relationships in the natural resource and environmental sphere.
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p. 19-21
Law Enforcement Evaluation as an Instrument for Legal Policy Performance Assessment
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The article looks at the issue of law policy design and implementation aimed to develop a civil law enforcement strategy in the framework of civil standards enforcement evaluation.
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The author formulates personnel reserve efficiency indicators: percentage of succession candidates appointed to positions within a certain time period; level of professionalism etc. and studies the practice of their application in order to provide the government with highly professional employees.
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: The author provides a classification of authoritative orders and their procedural differences, giving examples and characteristics of unlawful instructions and describing the normative pattern of behaviour for an executor who has received an unlawful order.
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Editor-in-Chief of the Gosudarstvennaya Sluzhba (Public Service) magazine discusses strategic planning as a new type of management with Sverdlovsk region governor Alexander Misharin
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The authors give an account of the current government concept of operation of regional investment funds, placing special emphasis on the fact that they are used to co-finance projects resulting from the development of public private partnership in the region. A list of conditions to be fulfilled by an RF subject in order to receive a subsidy is provided.
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The article describes the strategies employed by municipal and regional authorities and the business community to promote the image of Siberian territories. An extensive account is given of Perm's successful experience of creating a world class cultural and humanitarian atmosphere. The author proves that a successful city must be unique and gives relevant examples.
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The article presents an assessment of investment climate in the Chechen Republic, focusing on key challenges to the creation of a successful investment climate and measures to be taken to ensure economic independence and create an industrial and commercial infrastructure.
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The article examines the transportation infrastructure in the Barents Arctic region, suggesting methodologies and technologies for infrastructure facilities development to further the development and efficient use of Arctic resources.
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The article provides a summary of materials from the All-Russian academic and research video seminar 'Electronic Forms of Provision of Government and Municipal Services: Normative Requirements, New Practice', including both background information and newest research on the topic of e-government. Key problems are identified, various ways to change the situation are suggested.
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p. 50-51
V. Bakushev, K. Mikhailov, A. Sokolov, A. Filchakov. The Register of Normative Legal Acts: maintenance, document templates
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Key Concepts of E-Government Formation (Technologies, Implementation, Services). Glossary of terms
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The author analyzes the reasons for inefficient public management in the high technology sphere through federal target programmes. He assesses the implementation of the Electronic Russia programme, identifying errors of judgement that have led to the nonfulfillment of its key provisions. The necessity for the creation of a long-term electronification strategy for Russia is substantiated.
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The author provides a description of innocities as a new, higher stage of development of Russian science towns. He outlines basic principles of Skolkovo's legal status and legal environment: the regime of infrastructure creation and operation; interaction with public authorities; benefits for participants. An account is given of the emerging system of state control over the innocity's activity.
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Russia joined the Bologna Process in 2003. The Bologna agreements, while seemingly simple, must inevitably entail considerable changes in the vocational education systems of every European country, particularly so in Russia and former socialist community states. However, the introduction of the two-tier system is fraught with difficulties and errors, mostly bureaucratic and ideological. The author provides powerful arguments in favour of accelerated acceptance of the progressive approach.
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An analysis of key provisions of the Washington Consensus yields the reasons for Russia's contemporary economic problems. The authors point out the initially erroneous policy of deindustrialization of the Russian economy. As a counter proposal, the authors suggest a thorough study of Chinese experience expressed in the Grand Strategy concept, also known as the Beijing Consensus.
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The article deals with the reasons for Ukraine's negative investment rating. It outlines possible development scenarios and identifies key trends that might allow the country to escape the 'Malthusian Trap' (long term decrease in the return of a raw material based economy, which threatens the exhaustion of national economy).
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An analysis of the evolution of economic theories on the interaction between the state and the market is presented. The authors come to the conclusion that normal operation of market institutions is only possible through their involvement in a macroenvironment, whose main parameters are determined by the state. The authors illustrate their point with numerous facts concerning state regulation of market mechanisms in Singapore.
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The author describes the essence of his methodology of geopolitical dynamics, providing a personal interpretation of axioms stipulated by the well-known theorist, R. Collins. Special attention is given to expansionism as the driving force of geopolitical dynamics.
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The article is devoted to the dynamics of the Russian Federation state policy concerning the military industrial complex from the early 1990's to the present day. It lists priority directions of legal and managerial activity in the sphere of military conversion.
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Member states of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) consider the formation and development of a common information state to be a strategic information security objective. This is a necessary measure to counter destructive forces which operate according to the technologies of information war. The article lists legal, technical and organizational recommendations to responsible public bodies and the CSTO Parliamentary Assembly.
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The article looks at the 'spherical', politological, philosophic, historical approaches to studying the nature of civil society, investigating its current condition in Russia and abroad. The author describes dangerous contemporary trends (reduction of the middle class, development of authoritarian movements etc.) and counterbalancing processes of cooperation between public power and society and delegation of authority to local government and civil society organizations.
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p. 86-89
The Hierarchy of Political Ideals: Inside the Television Journalists' Minds and in Reality
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An expert survey of Saint Petersburg television journalists reveals public ideals disseminated through mass media, as well as the inclination of professional journalists to increase humanization of their activity.
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The 20th century saw an unprecedented growth of the international women's movement. However, modern society still lacks a model of female participation in politics: women are still forced to play 'men's games', which is why there are still so few of them in the upper echelons of power.
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The author examines key scientific interpretations of such concepts as 'youth movement', 'youth organizations', conducts an analysis, outlines basic characteristics, provides classifications. Besides traditional forms, the author considers innovative, 'postmodern' forms of youth movement and its impact on youth policy.
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An analysis of historical stages of state construction in the context of their impact on modern problems of building the federal foundation of the Russian state.
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p. 99-101
Social Labour Relations in Agriculture: Current Condition and Development Options
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The author studies theoretical approaches to the definition of the essence of social labour relations in the agricultural sphere. A sociological analysis allows to reveal challenging issues and suggest directions of their normalization.
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A methodology of anticipative education of public servants is suggested. The author analyzes the model of implementation of strategic educational priorities in society and its characteristics: the principle of anticipative education of public servants; application of strategic level normative technologies; designing a creative information and education environment; social procurement of education.
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The author examines the information/communication factor of stress resistance of society in emergencies. The author assesses the impact of mass media and formulates suggestions on increasing efficiency of psychological correction through mass media.
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: The necessity of filling the gaps in the regulation of legal responsibility for the breach of budget legislation and their pertinent representation in normative legal acts is substantiated.
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The article looks at the problem of interethnic relations in polyethnic communities and suggests measures for its solution. Special focus is on the process of resocialization of ethnic institutes and groups as a prerequisite for the unity and integrity of the Russian state.
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The author analyzes the situation on the Russian labour market from October 2007 to December 2009. A correlation is revealed between the rate and structure of unemployment and measures to alleviate social tension taken by employment services. The author demonstrates that increased state participation in the solution of its citizens' economic problems does not lead to social dependency growth.
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The author studies the role of local mass media in the formation of an information and communication system of local government, describing the interaction between the local community, public power and business as a social/political network.
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Creation of a state's image is an important objective of its domestic and external policy. The author analyzes political, psychological, sociological approaches to the fulfillment of the objective, identifies key aspects and suggests ways of increasing the attractiveness of Russia's image.
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The article presents an analysis of the connection between the spirituality of society and public administration as well as the role of mass media in this interaction. The author's personal interpretation of the concept of spirituality is provided. He substantiates the necessity of development of a public information policy adequate to the modern media situation in the context of frequent ethical conflicts in the sphere of social and political relations.
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