Vol. 15 No. 6 (2013)

В статье рассматриваются история принятия конституционных актов, их основные положения с точки зрения реализации политических задач и общественных ожиданий, анализируется правовой смысл положений, которые не могут быть на практике реализованы и остаются социально значимыми мифами, без которых государство и общество не способны нормально функционировать.

This article introduces crowdsourcing-online, distributed problem solving, both its historical grounding and exemplar case of using it to solve problems facing by the SFO Small Business of Moscow. Crowdsourcing allows to attract people with different professional backgrounds. With the possibilities of the Web it became possible to use “wisdom of crowds”. This article also explores conditions needed for the successful project and ricks that should be considered. Results of the project allow to offer it as an useful tool for solving public problems and legitimizing upcoming laws.

The article contains the analysis of the «Strategy of social and economic development of Kamchatskiy krai over the period till the year 2025 year». The priority guidelines of the krai development that will make it possible to transfer from the resource-based economy to the innovation-based economy have been identified, in particularly: maritime industry; mineral resources sector; tourism; creation of agglomerations. The author identifies the program for a special purpose and method of planning as a tool of carrying out regional planned policy of solving region problems. Long-term krai purpose-oriented programs will enable to update the Kamchatskiy krai economy by means of implementation of the best widely used achievements in the world and in the national economy in the field technology and engineering, as well as solution of the problems of the population higher life and better level of its social security. The analysis of budget expenditures of Kamchatskiy krai for the realization of the long-term purpose-oriented programs has revealed that only program-purpose method provides the achievement of intended purposes as economically as possible, in other words, the most effective application of funds.

The author examines the issue of social adaptation and integration of migrants. The author developed a technique of an assessment of migrants’ social integration and presented the municipal model of social adaptation and social integration as a means of migration policy improvement.

The article is devoted to the problem of interaction of public power and society. It is proved that the present structure is predetermined by traditional subject – object administration model which limits abilities of constructive self- organization and creates the risks of spontaneous transformations dynamics of which can be described in the language of the catastrophe theory. The optimal solution of the present situation in the modern society of the RF is the formation of more open system allowing partnership and cooperation of public administration and civil society institutions in the form of subject – object relations.

This is an interview with Mr. Nikolai Krutov, Chief of the Administration Head of the Republic of Mordovia, given to Professor Tatyana Ilarionova, in which he shares the experience of Mordovia in managing public services.

The article covers issues of formation of the system of settlement and transport system of the Republic of Mordovia by types of transport. Modern status of these systems is considered, transportation problems are identified. The direction of the innovative model of regional development and solution of the tasks of improving transportation and settlement systems are stated.

The analysis of the budgetary resources formation in the city of Moscow is presented in article. The authors conducted a research of structure and dynamics of the tax and non-tax income of the budget. The assessment of the usage efficiency and sufficiency of the budgetary resources in the city of Moscow for the period 2010 - 2012 is given.

The author analyses rents payments as an effective instrument to restore cultural heritage establishments within the city property Exchequer Treasury, rather than the basic source for the city budget revenues free from tax only.

The article deals with methods of analyzing budget fulfillment and gives notions of ‘management by exception’, ‘use exception’, ‘efficiency exception’, ‘production volume exception’. The authors emphasize the idea that, devoid of the control system, the process of budgeting loses common sense. It is necessary to analyze budget fulfillment regularly for effective budget planning. Exception analysis is the basis for making future management decisions. In the conditions of the market economy working out a budgeting system is vital for the functioning of the organization, as only with its help the governing body can evaluate the degree of influence of different factors of economical activity on the financial result and forecast the dynamics of financial indices. An effective budgeting system in the organization allows to create a transparent and easy-manageable financial structure, solves a lot of typical economical problems of inefficiency in large organizations, lowers the possibility of high-price mistakes.

Shortcomings of existing concepts of «the social state» come to light. In a wide historical and political context the retrospective of formation of this concept and its practical realization are considered, its criteria are analyzed.

The author substantiates the necessity of the legal regulation of the administrative process, as well as analyses the court procedure considering the cases of the disputable normative legal acts, non-normative legal acts, judgements and actions (lack of actoions) of the state bodies, body of local self-control.

The article investigates the negative conditions of the state and of public administration – a dysfunctional state and a failed state, its essential features. Author presents definitions of a dysfunctional state and of a failed state. The author researched total, local and particular dysfunction of the state, total failure and local failure of the state.

The article is devoted to the conceptualization of human capital development trends in the Russian the new information environment. It is focused on the relationship and interaction of social, cultural and information processes, on the issues of the transformation of communicative space, assessing new risks and threats in the development of human capital caused by formation of the information society.

The article considers the issues of the civil society formation. This topic gains a specific significance due to the widespread protest activeness that has been found out in the major world regions in a couple of recent years. Analyzing these tendencies the author suggests two basic scenarios of the civic culture development to discussion. The elaborated models discern two ways of the civil culture formation – “adaptation” and “domination” – that demonstrate the correlation between the institutions of civil society and public authority in the field of defining a territorial sociopolitical development direction. The special attention is focused at a “meeting” event investigation in the context of the civic culture’s dynamics and its value and senseful space. This perspective allows revealing the role and significance of sociopolitical actions as forms of civic activeness expression and communicative ways of society’s self-organization based on actual sociocultural prerequisites.

The article considers the views of the Nobel prize winner Joseph Brodsky on the relations between an artist and the idea of civil service and society. His standpoint is represented in the context of major models of such relations, elitist and democratic attitudes.

The article is dedicated to the reception of European Art Nouveau in the Italian culture. Regional architectural trends are presented in the context of the social and political reality of Italy of XIX-XX centuries

The article examines the issues of information and communication management and development of mechanisms for counteracting corruption in education. The author suggests conceptual approaches to the formation of the state information policy and the organization of information and communication activities of the authorities to ensure information transparency and to facilitate public control in order to implement the anti-corruption policy in education.

The article is dedicated to anti-corruption policy of the customs authorities of the Russian Federation. It is shown that this policy has been implemented for a long time and involves a significant number of steps and transformations. The author analyzes the compliance of the anti-corruption measures with the main ideas of the Arusha Declaration of the WTO. It is shown that the current anti-corruption policy does not meet the basic principles and rules of the WTO.

The experience of creating, financing and functioning of the technology platforms in the EU and Russia are described in this paper. Areas and topics of technology platforms in Belarus are identified.

In the article the author considers the cooperation between Russia and the Central Asian states in the military-political sphere. Particular attention is paid to the maintenance and development stages of this collaboration, the problems of the military-political cooperation between Russia and the Central Asian states, solutions at this stage. Based on the review the article highlights the importance of maintaining and strengthening the military-political cooperation between Russia and the Central Asian states, that meets the interests of all states.

The success of every country’s economy is inseparably linked to the political and socio-cultural context. Hence, to obtain a holistic picture of changes, most contemporary researchers examine the economy, which is subject to its own development laws, within the context of the broader life of the society. Besides the creation of favorable economic environment to form the market, political stability, social security of poor segments of the population, one of the most important conditions of successful development of the state is formation of institutes of non-economic origin. Trust is identified in this article as one of the strongest «cementing» materials to ensure this process.

The article considers the problems of perfecting political and legal foundations in the state and private partnership in the Russian Federation. The topicality of the research is stipulated by the development necessity of the state and private partnership, as one of the effective mechanisms of the resourses concentration in power, business and other subjects of social life to solve important infrastructural tasks. The article analyses political and social foundations of the state and private partnership in the Russian Federation. A special attention is focused on concession agreement as one of the most disseminated forms of the partnership interaction between authorities and business structures. The author substantiates the necessity of perfecting the system of interaction between the authorities, business, public amalgamations with the aim of the most complete usage of mechanisms of the state and private partnership, updating of political, social, and economic relationship.

The article describes the modern approaches to state regulation of the evolution of paid medical services market. Special attention is paid to the methods and tools to create a health care system designed to meet the interests of society and the state.

The article presents the research results of personnel potential of local governments. A number of important quantitative and qualitative parameters of modern personnel structure of local governments is revealed.

The article considers perspectives of the involvement of management systems and professional standards in the sphere of human resources management. Such problems are considered on the example of the leading foreign countries, namely Germany. Moreover, the author analyses problems and perspectives of realization of mentioned staff innovations in public management practice in the RF.

The article deals with the possibilities of the Hi-Hume technologies study with the aim of labor activities motivation. While analyzing different researchers investigations on this subject, the author questions the role of manipulation and Hi-Hume technologies in management, the motives behind the moral and ethic side of the Hi-Hume technologies usage in the personnel motivation.