Vol. 15 No. 3 (2013)

The authors examine the public monitoring of the implementation of social decrees of the President of the Russian Federation, conducted by the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation. The author outlines the general approach to the organization and monitoring, data are given public monitoring of creating the country's special jobs for the disabled and the conditions for the reconciliation of women child-rearing responsibilities with employment. The article presents the findings and recommendations to the government to improve the efficiency of the social decrees of the President of the Russian Federation on May 7, 2012 in the employment of people with disabilities and women's employment.

July 1, 2013 in Moscow held a presentation of the monograph «Russia XXI century. Policy. Economy. Culture». The article is devoted to presentations of authors publishing in which the guests of the event were told about the sense of history and prospects of the project, as well as the characteristics of today's Czech-Russian relations in the sphere of science and education.

The author presented to the editors his diary entries, reflecting the historic days of the adoption of the Constitution of the Russian Federation. Some of them published in a multivolume publication devoted to the first phase of the history of the Constitution of the Russian Federation [From the the history of creation of the Constitution of the Russian Federation, 2007-2010], a member of the editorial board which acted by M. Mityukov. In the present fragment is selected, only a small fraction of the material dating back to the «disappointment» of the project activities of the working group of the Constitutional Commission, and finding an alternative to the preparation and adoption of the Constitution (the period of the Constitutional Council).

The article is devoted to the preparation of the XXVII World Summer Universiade from 6 to 17 July 2013 in the city of Kazan.

The article discusses the formation customer focus as a mail factor improvement of quality rendering services in public sector and businesses. Turn to the client needs reorganization in philosophy and practical management of the organization.

The article provides a comparative analysis of the different conceptual approaches to the development of systems of riskbased regulation, proposed by foreign experts. These concepts are focused on solving problems at different levels, they complement each other. In particular, the model of a system of risk-based regulation of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, which provides improved procedures of planning inspection service of the state control (supervision), based on the use of risk scores of individual control objects can be integrated into a more general model of risk management control system of the European United Nations Economic Commission. In turn, this integrated model can be used in a variety of subject areas, including in Russia, it is necessary to address the targets in the field of optimization of the system of conformity assessment, permitting and enforcement powers under Strategy 2020: A new model of growth – new social policy.

This article discusses the features of the regulation of legal migration in the Russian Federation. Based on the research methodology of migration developed by the author makes proposals for priority actions for the formation of the legal framework in this area.

This article reveals the modern approaches to personnel management in the conditions of the Russian economy. Special attention is paid to personnel management methods and tools for flexible productions.

The article is devoted to the use of business experience in the civil service by adapting administrative ideas, new ways of working with the staff, as well as invitations of businessmen to work in government agencies.

The article reveals the efficacy of the method of «photo of workday» to optimize the performance of public servants on the example of employees of the Government of Moscow. Based on the analysis of the theory of the method of study and practice it in Moscow highlights the main problem of time management Russian officials and lists the most common «sinks» of the working time of civil servants. Based on the practical details, the author suggests the ways to streamline processes and methods of application of the method to study the work of other public and private institutions.

The article considers the complex of problems to be solved for achievement of the organizational-legal uniformity in the implementation of the civil service rotation mechanisms: to determine organizational measures to help streamline the system of interaction of state bodies, as well as screening questions leaders planned for replacement of posts of civil service in order of rotation, and the assessment of their personal and professional qualities and managerial competencies.

The author considers conditions that prompted authorities to a more active dialogue with civil society, in conjunction with the processes of democratization, as well as the problems of institutionalization between the power and society, the purposes and forms of their interaction. Also the article deals with the concept of civil control, highlights contemporary practices of this phenomenon in Russia.

The main idea of writing is definition of the role and importance of trade union organizations in the social structure of the Russian state under the conditions of market relations. Within the paradigm of the information society is carried out the analysis of the trade unions role in the world, it is of practical interest to determine the prospects for the development of trade unions of workers in modern Russia. Results of the study will find practical application in the solution of social problems of Russian society in decision-making and legislation governing the status of trade unions.

The author shows governance and self-organization in nonequilibrium social systems, the emergence of social epidemics, and social diseases, use of social therapy to overcome them. Social epidemiology investigates the occurrence of spontaneous processes of mass diseases. The epidemic process is a process of mass distribution of biological viruses, virus information (ideological or religious ideas, rumors, technological innovation). The spread of fashion, gambling, alcoholism among the population, drug addiction are examples of social epidemics. The rate of mass distribution of diseasecausing virus depends on the quality and characteristics of the communicative system. The authors demonstrated the features of social epidemics (multifactorial destructive impact on the social and economic fabric of society, the relationship of social epidemics with economic crises, etc.) on the example of the epidemic of the XXI century (HIV / AIDS). Social epidemics, we can stop the following ways: «vaccination» against the information viruses, using methods of social therapy, social interventions and education of morality. The authors show examples of M. Gladwell approach to counter the social epidemics.

The article proposes analytical and methodological analysis of the global universities rankings as factor of soft power. The author researches essence, character, achievements, advantages, problems, contradictions and limits formal indexes Russian and foreign universities, rankings QS WUR and THE WUR Universities by Reputation (Times Higher Education Reputation Rankings). The author views and shows basic tendencies in developing of the global universities rankings. First – leading role of Anglo-Saxon universities in its rankings. Second – expansion of Far Eastern universities and Asian universities as a hole in rankings QS WUR and THE WUR Universities by Reputation. Third – very slowly and waves widening expansion of Russian universities in global rankings. Forth – advantages in rankings QS WUR have first of all the universities with power and prominent scientific theoretical and applied international centers and laboratories, outstanding scientists, recognized in the world scientific scholars and high level of scientific citing, international cooperation in science, interaction with state, business and civil society, training numerous students and postgraduates from and for other countries.

International Institute of Public Administration and Management RANEPA visited the Dean of the Faculty of Economics, University of Valencia, Doctor of Economics, professor, an expert in the field of regional studies of the economy of Valencia (Spain) and an expert in the European economy Vicente Soler. He delivered a public lecture for the students of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration.

Interview with Dmitry FEDORISHCHEV, RANEPA Deputy Provost and Director of the Summer campus at Presidential Academy.

This publication is dedicated to the international scientific-practical conference «Effective state and municipal management as a socio-economic development of Russia» held in RANEPA on 21-22 May 2013. The author reviews the main reports and presentations in the thematic sections of the first and second day of the conference.

The article, dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the Constitution and the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation is announced and disclosed further education program for training in parliamentary system, as well as a master course «Parliamentary activity and ensuring of inter-parliamentary cooperation» RANEPA.

Bakushev V.V, Kolyaskin I.E, Litvinov E.A. Sovremennyi parlamentarizm: vzgliady, otsenki, tendentsii [The modern parliamentarism: views, estimates and trends]. Vol. 1. Moscow, Granitsa Publ., 2013, 234 p. Bakushev V.V, Kolyaskin I.E, Litvinov E.A. Sovremennyi parlamentarizm: vozmozhnosti vybora gosudarstvennosti, rossiiskie parlamentskie modeli [The modern parliamentarism: the choice of statehood, the Russian parliamentary model]. Vol. 2. Moscow, Granitsa Publ., 2013, 2013, 310 p. Bakushev V.V, Agaltsov V.S Kolyaskin I.E, Litvinov E.A. Sovremennyi parlamentarizm: obespechenie mezhparlamentskogo sotrudnichestva [The modern parliamentarism: ensuring of inter-parliamentary cooperation]. Vol. 3. Moscow, Granitsa Publ., 2013, 276 p.

Considered specific features and social impact of corruption in the sphere of education, regarding the key socializing role of education. Proposed a typology of corruption in educational sphere, its division into “administrative”, “entering” and “teacher’s” corruption. Considered the main approaches to the systemic overcome of the corruption in education: independent evaluation at all levels of education and information openness and transparency of educational institutions and education authorities. Highlighted the role of public control in the prevention of corruption risks in education. Identified three levels of public control in education: consumer control (a control by the consumers of educational services – students, student government, parents communities); collegial control – from the professional community (scientific councils, dissertation councils, teaching community); trustees control (various school boards, supervisory boards of educational institutions).

The article studies the preconditions for the development and advanced reproduction of the demand and supply in one of the segments of russian market – production and distribution of knowledge – markets of dissertation services. From the side of supply, the actual lumpenization of the scientific society and the absence of conditions for legal professional self-realization of it are considered to be the reasons of the market formation. From the side of supply – existence of a group of people and children from the politics sphere who are wealthy enough to send a necessary amount of money to improve their social status not hurting their material well-being. The common reason is the absence of moral and legal brakes to prevent, at least, the expanded production (not to mention complete eradication) of the malicious phenomenon of the day.

The article deals with the problem of combating corruption in the public and municipal services. It reviews the relevance, significance, condition of the investigated problem as well as the features of corruption in the public and municipal services. The necessity of incorporating akmeology-legal and psychological technologies counteract corruption in public and municipal services. And is dire need of mastering new techniques, methods and technologies to counter corruption in the public and municipal service using the latest scientific psychology-akmeological developments.

The issue of legislative ensuring of free access to information held by state authorities, institutions of local government and also economic entities, which deal with the utilization of budget funds, is of the particularly importance today.

The article provides the analysis of the main aspects of Brazil’s image policy. The author stresses the importance of the fact that Brazil’s image policy should have cultural basis. However, despite all the difficulties the country had encountered, Brazil has a good chance to succeed.

Global immigration made significant changes to Western Europe's ethnic and confessional appearance during the last decades. The presented paper aims to analyze adaptation problems with cultural minorities in Europe, in particular with young Turks in Germany. Just like other EU countries, the German society also suffers from social, cultural and political problems caused by a huge portion of young Muslims not willing to become integrated into the German social and cultural world. The authors admonish of the danger that Germany might face having developed complete „parallel societies“ within its own society and state that many Turks born in Germany (members of the second and third generation there) have identity problems that may cause serious consequences. Special attention is paid to the necessary changes of Germany's integration policy and state measures to stimulate the mutual intercultural adaptation.

The article discusses the history of the Romanov dynasty in the context of the history of the Russian state: the system of government, public administration. In the article the author shows a huge role the members of the dynasty in strengthening and the evolution of the state in the history of social and cultural life of Russia.

Insurance sector – not protected part of the economy, is becoming increasingly attractive to fraudsters in a dynamically developing world. The use of international experience in Russia – an important factor in minimizing threats to the economic sphere. In this article proposes to consider using a scoring system as a mechanism for the management of operational risk, as one of the most vulnerable places of the insurance.

The article examines institutional mechanisms of Russian demographic policy and defines factors of institutional development. Institutionalization experience of a number of countries has been analyzed. The ways to Russian demographic policy optimization on the basis of development of institutional mechanisms are suggested.

The article is devoted to immediate problem of human development in the organization and its transformation in human capital. The ambiguousness in the definition to the concepts of human potential and human capital leads not only to scientific-definitional confusion, but also to real difficulties in their practical use. The author examined the relation of concepts human potential and the labor potential, human resources, human capital. Also in article is represented the author's overall structure of the human capacity of the organization, consisting of active and passive human potential, and the features its transformation in human capital.

The paper analyzes the modern tools of strategic modeling of political situation with taking into consideration detailed diagnosis of the value-sense orientation of the object of manipulation and guiding the meanings and values of the society by the point-contact on the mass consciousness in a communicative environment. The author explores the concept of political charisma, charismatic political leadership and its potential use as a key tool for social mobilization and management of attractors of social development. The analysis of the President Obama's second inaugural address in February 2013 revealed a new strategic modeling tool, based on the principles of social and cultural hermeneutics and methodology of «environmental» influences. The author emphasizes the increasing role of charismatic political influence in the strategic management based on the communicative and reflexive paradigms.