EXPERT-ANALYTICAL SUPPORT OF FEDERAL EXECUTIVE AUTHORITIES ACTIVITY

Abstract

The analysis of expert and analytical support of activities of federal authorities as one of the means of management aimed at increasing their working efficiency is considered in the article. This is one of the key characteristics in the public administration sphere determining how qualitatively and quickly administrative decisions lead to the desirable result. Information is understood as a set of data and facts, characteristics of processes, objects, and events; it is an important element and means of management exercising. Decision-making process should be based on the high-quality and reliable information, data, research, expert evaluations and conclusions. To improve the quality of materials (programs, reports, notes etc.) expert and analytical institutions with highly qualified and experienced experts are founded. The formation of Advisory councils within the Ministries of the Russian Federation demonstrates the increased need of expert, analytical and information support of activities of authorities. The key tasks and functions of Advisory councils are preparation of analytical, informative and methodical materials, analysis of suggestions, projects and initiatives, expert examination of projects, regulatory legal acts, plans and programs, drawing up recommendations, assessment of possible consequences of projects, regulatory acts implementation, etc. To analyze the activities of Advisory councils we used the following indicators: availability of regulations on creation of the Council, tasks and functions, the structure of the Council, the conclusions and protocols of the meetings. The analysis of data on the official websites of Russian Ministries allowed to determine the order of functioning of the Councils, the nature and number of available information, the period of its updating, relevance and promptness of publishing, and also to reveal the councils possessing the most and/or least detailed information about their activities.