Vol. 18 No. 2 (2016)
Published: March 15, 2016
Published: 15 March 2016
The greeting of the rector of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration Vladimir Mau to the journal «Public Administration» in connection with the release of the anniversary hundredth issue of the journal. The author thinks about the development priorities and the significance of the education in the modern world, about the importance of the seamless connection between the practical management activities and theoretical developments.
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The article is devoted to the history and modern development of the scientific and political journal «Public Administration», the hundredth's issue of which is being published. The editorial policy of the issue is analyzed, the most frequent topics addressed by the authors are shown, the scientific activity of the representatives of the disciplines such as sociology, economics, law is analyzed. «Public Administration» acts annually as an information sponsor of the Gaidar Forum and covers this event. The journal is recommended by the Higher Attestation Commission for publishing of the main ideas for the defense of theses and preparing for entry into the international databases.
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The history of the development of the journal «Public Administration» through the eyes of its first chief editor is described in the article. The editorial work, creating journal sections and production of the first issues are considered.
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In the article the author speaks about the start of his work in the Russian Academy of Civil Service under President of Russian Federation and the experience of the creation of the journal «Public Administration». The first steps in the development of the journal are described: creation of the new columns, inclusion in the list of HAC, meetings with scientists, and with the first Deputy Head of presidential administration of the Russian Federation at that time - Dmitry Medvedev, who later became a member of the editorial Board of the journal «Public Administration».
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In this article the author shares her memories about the work as the editor-in-chief of the journal «Public Administration». The historical journey across the sections of the journal for the period of 2009-2011 is presented. The preparation of the materials, projects and achievements of the Editorial board is considered.
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p. 24-24
Welcoming address of the Governor - Chairman of the Government of the Ulyanovsk Region - Sergey Morozov
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p. 25-25
Welcoming address of the Rector of the Arctic state institute of art and culture of Yakutsk, the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) - Sargylana Ignatieva
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Published: 15 March 2016
The author's vision of the further development of the journal «Public Administration» is given in the article. The analysis of published articles from the point of view of sociology is presented. The author addresses to the regional aspect, state management and education issues
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The author congratulates the journal «Public Administration» with the anniversary edition. The author raises the question of the level of published materials and the scale of the issues that are considered in the pages of the magazine. And, in conclusion, as a gift to the academic journal - a joke about an academician.
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This article is devoted to the complex research of the role and importance of an expert in public administration system. What determines the modern growth of the demand for experts for the public interest and for the public administration purposes? What is an expert? How do we identify an expert and what criteria should be used for this? The article is based on the use of studying methods of the systemic analysis, synthesis, induction. By using these methods the distinctive characteristics of the expert notion were discovered. Also, the determinants of the limitation of the possibilities for the development of the universal and comprehensive definition of this concept were discovered and presented.
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The expertise of the articles on economic topics published in the journal «Public Administration» is presented by the author The practical recommendations to authors who publish their scientific research concerning, in particular, the selection of topics, scientific and methodological elaboration of the publication, the use of analytical data and compilation of the resulting parts are presented in the article
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p. 34-35
The morphology of the public administration and the journal "Public administration"
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The morphological approach to the analysis of the political situation is considered by the author. According to the author this approach enables the readers of the journal «Public Administration» to trace the changing forms of political behavior and participation of citizens in the old and new political institutions, and also to represent the stages and forms of the evolution of political self-determination of the various actors, to link it to national and national-state self-determination, to identify the interaction of forms, methods and means of each of these directions of development of political life.
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The constant author of the journal «Public Administration» Professor Svetlana Tatunz speaks about the importance of the expert opinion for the development of the balanced state policy, recollecting the sad experience of ignoring the opinion of scientists in inter-ethnic issues. Congratulating the journal with the release of the jubilee issue, the author emphasizes the importance of the journal as a platform of opinion exchange among those who are interested in the development of the state.
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p. 37-40
To the question of the relation of the constitutional principles of the legal and social state
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The article analyzes the correlation of the legal and social state starting from the emergence of the first ideas of law and order, on the one hand, and the origins of public charity, on the other hand, to their subsequent constitutional recognition. The author considers the correlation of the principles of the legal and social state as two parallel non-controversial categories interacting with each other and complementing each other.
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p. 41-45
Problems of public control over ensuring human rights in Russian detention facilities
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This article examines the problem of public control in Russian prisons in the framework of the Federal Penal Correction Service. There is a description of what public control is like and should be like. The article gives a critical analysis of FZ-76. The authors provide the results of their investigation of the practical experience of the Public Oversight Commission of Tver region in Russia, identifying fundamental problems in this area. The authors highlight the gravity of the problem of public control in Russian prisons calling for speedy legislative resolution
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The intra-industry trade factor is considered by the author as one of the indicators of the assessment of threats to the economic security of the border regions of Russia. In order to verify this hypothesis, the author calculated the index of Grubel-Lloyd index and trade overlap index on the example of the border regions of the Siberian Federal District. It is shown that the share of the intra-industry trade characterizes the technological structure of the regional export and indirectly indicates to the level of the technological development of the border region. The analysis of the intra-industry trade indices allows us to estimate how much the region's economy depends on the situation on the world commodity and commodity markets and is able to resist the negative externality.
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p. 50-53
The formation and development of the legal and organizational fundamentals of the inter-municipal cooperation in Russia
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The questions of formation of the inter-municipal cooperation, evolutionary moments of the organizational and legal foundations of this activity at various stages, also during the administrative and municipal reforms are considered in the article. Various types of municipalities associations are studied by the authors, examples of such cooperation at republican, regional and local levels are considered; the conclusion about the necessity of learning and pooling the experiences of different territories is made.
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The state of personnel processes in medical organizations of the country in the context of health care system reformation are considered by the authors. The problematic specifics of medical organizations reforming is described including the optimization of staffing, maintenance personnel processes focus on improving the socio-economic efficiency of medical practice. The proposals on resolving urgent problems of staffing were formulated.
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The implementation of thestate programs as a key managerial tool in public administration suggests the need to link the resources used for attaining targets and the results achieved. So far, this practice has mostly concerned financial resources (mostly budget expenditures),however, human resources also play a key role in achieving the results. The article reviews the specific features of the activities included in the state programs and suggests the ways for determining staffing needs for them. The consideration of these peculiarities willdirect the personnel policy on achieving the objectives of public programs and distribute rationally the staff with respect to priority tasks. The article is prepared in the framework of the research on Developing and piloting methodic approaches for evaluating staffing needs, optimizing staff levels and stimulating federal civil servants in the framework of programmatic methods of public administration carried out as the part of RANEPA state assignment in 2015.
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The problems of development and state support of entrepreneurship are considered in the article. The author analyzes the changes occurred in this area recently. Special attention is paid to the necessity of forming a positive image of entrepreneurship as well as strengthening the trust among government, business and civil society.
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p. 67-69
Interdisciplinary price formula as an innovative conciliation mechanism for the elements of planned and market economy
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The article considers in detail the approaches to forming prices for products in long-term contracts. A cross-sectoral price formula as an innovative approach to medium-term planning of development of related industries in companies with a long production cycle is offered. The proposed method provides a market adjustment mechanism of the value of the product by allowing the three-year production planning in various industries.
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p. 70-73
Collaboration of the Ministry of sport, the Hockey Federation and the Continental Hockey League to Develop Professional Hockey in Russia
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The article describes organizations responsible for the development of sport in Russia, such as the Continental Hockey League and the Ice Hockey Federation of Russia. A lot of focus in the article is given to the collaboration of these organizations with each other as well as with the Russian Ministry of Sport. The article also presents examples of controversies between the organizations. The author emphasizes the importance of working out more detailed legislation to regulate professional sport.
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The report from the municipal forum «House Manager», held in the city district Khimki, is presented in the article. The main objective of this event was the involvement of the public in the continuing work of the government to solve problems in the sphere of housing and communal services.
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The analysis of the problems of the internal control in the modern state organizations is covered in the article. The author's approach is based on the systems analysis, risk-oriented analysis and business process re-engineering. During the analysis the causes of the control low effectiveness were determined and methods for its improvement were presented. The underestimation of the control expenses caused by the zero tolerance of employee's errors was stated as the main reason. The methodology based on reasonability assessment of the new control procedures implementation for the solution of arising problems was worked out by the author. Meanwhile, the control procedures are considered as phases of the main processes affecting the added value creation. The author's methodology can be useful for managers, lawyers and staff officers as everyday tool to reduce the red tape. It can be used in analysis of the developing regulations, suggested managerial procedures for work improvement and new projects.
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The results of the research of the organization of the supplementary vocational education of civil servants of the Siberian Federal District are considered in the article. The problems that affect negatively the efficiency of the supplementary vocational education as the basis of the professional development are revealed. The technique of planning and organizing the supplementary vocational education allowing to increase its influence on the professional development of civil servants is offered.
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p. 85-89
To forestall a conflict: the history of teaching the basics of religious cultures in schools
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The activities of the government bodies during the introduction to the Russian school of the study of the subject «Basics of religious cultures and secular ethics» are analyzed in the article. There were disagreements concerning the teaching of this subject in the school between the representatives of different religions and discussion on this issue continued for several years. The article shows that the consent of the parties has been achieved largely thanks to the activities of the public authorities that have contributed to the mutual understanding and cooperation between the participants of the discussion and have provided them with the participation in the development of the solutions.
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The review gives an assessment to the new monograph of Professor S. Kravchenko who is first among Russian sociologists to research the problems of time vector in the dialectics of the humanistic development of the modern society and determine the specifics of these processes in our modern reality.
Published: 15 March 2016
International cooperation in the Arctic is one of the priority directions of implementation of state policy in the region. Its main objective is to achieve sustainable development and the preservation of stability, the use of communication tools for socio-economic development of territories. High scientific value of the monograph devoted to the comprehensive study of the geo-economic aspects of the use of the potential of regions of the High North, the analysis of the best practices of the foreign countries in the development of the circumpo-lar region is noted.
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The efforts of the state for the maintenance and promotion of science and education in France are considered in the article. The author offers an overview of financing arrangements for different levels of education and research, and traces the changes in investment in this area, highlights the efforts of the government of the French Republic on scientific and technological development of the country.
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The author makes an attempt to examine the positive and negative aspects of the Israeli experience basing on the analysis of the development of the Israeli society using the multi-party principle. An analysis of a number of exaggerations and negative aspects of the Israeli politics occurring mainly due to a multi-party system of government is presented. The conclusion is made that today in most cases the presence of many small parties in Parliament is not a sign of democracy but rather an early sign of impending anarchy or a path to authoritarianism.
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The party autonomy principle plays a significant role in the current EU Private International Law, affecting dramatically the legal management of cross-border matrimonial crisis. This study analyzes the importance of this principle in relation to the regulation of international matrimonial disputes and the determination of the law governing cross-border divorces as well as its practical limitations. The article stresses the benefits of the coordination of different EU instruments related to cross-border matrimonial crisis.
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p. 110-113
Administrative functions of the Soviet state in the sphere of labour: regional aspect (1917-1925)
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A historical overview of the formation of new social and labor relations in the period from 1917 to 1925 is presented in the article. An extensive analysis of the archival documents was made by the author. It is noted that at the beginning of the revolutionary changes in Russia in 1917-1925 there has been a conscious attention shift of the new revolutionary authorities to the management of the state, which meant the strengthening of the economic-organizational and the cultural-educational functions of the state. The mandatory minimum wage, the equal pay for women and men for equal work, the formation of the equality in the employment, the formalization of the principle of the right to work for all were discussed.
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p. 114-115
Historical and geographical framework for the resettlement of residents of the Crimean Peninsula
Published: 15 March 2016
One of the main features of settlements in the Crimea (Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol) is its complex ethnic history. The interaction of peoples was accompanied by migration flows, sometimes wearing a forced or even coerced character. The article contains the analysis of the situations with the inclusion of the different regions in the structure of Russia, identifying indigenous ekistic differences of the return of the Crimea. Some possible factors having significant influence on the development of settlements of the Crimea in the near future are listed, and options for the continuation of the research in the settlements location of the Peninsula are summarized.
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The methods of examination and the conditions of their application in modern organizational management are analyzed in the article. The most relevant bases of expertise methods classifications to the needs of modern management are identified. The analysis of collective expert activity features is made and the strengths and weaknesses of expert joint work methods are highlighted. The author considers different methods of collective expertise depending on their format some of which are quite popular (brainstorming, method of inversions etc.) and some are relatively unknown (nominal group method, organizational activity games, synectics). As a result of the respective investigation the generalization of the use of different groups of collective expertise methods is made depending on the organization's time resources, as well as the place of the expertise object in the customer's hierarchy of objectives.
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