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Значение и эффективность института Уполномоченного по правам ребёнка в Российской Федерации
The article considers the Institution of Presidential Commissioner for Children's Rights in the Russian Federation. The author analyzes legal aspects and features of this institute in Russia. The article gives the complex efficiency assessment of the Institution of Presidential Commissioner in the Russian Federation and the main directions of his activity.
The issue is devoted to outsourcing using by public authorities. In the issue there is the experience of using administrative processes in the RF subjects. The nature of public duties that can be outsourced are determined. Outsourcing is seen as a technology of public administration.
Performance management of local governance in Russia becomes nowadays more important. It happens due to the fact that a quality of public and local services in a great extent determines a quality of day-to-day life. Nevertheless the performance management for local authorities couldn’t be formed downwards. Primarily these methods should provide citizens’ satisfaction of an urban environment quality. Accordingly composite performance management methods for local authorities should be developed. They ought to combine the statistics and citizens’ surveys results.
In this article we present an analysis of Russian legislation and a regional practice of local authorities performance management. Also was formed a chart of analysis of different departments of city administrations to develop some elements of assessment and monitoring of local authorities activities and enhance citizens’ satisfaction. In addition, were discussed some questions of the statistics and surveys results correlation and possible errors of assessment.
Alexander Sungurov
Public Chamber of Chelyabinskaya oblast in situation of regional inter-elite conflict.
The objective of paper is analysis of the role and place of Public Chamber of Chelyabinskaya oblast in the situation of inter-elite conflict in this region. It was a conflict between the team of governor Michael Yurevich, from one side, and coalition of persons from police and other ‘power’ structures with the part of industrial elite of region with non-formal leader chair of regional court Theodor Yiatkin, from other side. The positions of four groups of respondents – from government structures, from NGOs, from Muss-Media, and from academic community – concerning the participation of Public Chamber and it’s chair in regional inter-elite conflict are analyzed by means of materials of sixteen experts interview and focus-group.
This paper is devoted to the development in contemporary Russia of the institutes with mediator functions. Th e development on regional level (case of Sankt-Petersburg) of Public and Consultative Councils from one side and Institutes of Commissioners for human rights and for children rights are analyzed from comparative approach. Th e subjects of research are history of creation and development of this institutes, normative base, personal structure and results of its activities. The conclusions about realization of paternalistic or partner’s model of state-society relation in every cases are formulated.
The paper examines the structure, governance, and balance sheets of state-controlled banks in Russia, which accounted for over 55 percent of the total assets in the country's banking system in early 2012. The author offers a credible estimate of the size of the country's state banking sector by including banks that are indirectly owned by public organizations. Contrary to some predictions based on the theoretical literature on economic transition, he explains the relatively high profitability and efficiency of Russian state-controlled banks by pointing to their competitive position in such functions as acquisition and disposal of assets on behalf of the government. Also suggested in the paper is a different way of looking at market concentration in Russia (by consolidating the market shares of core state-controlled banks), which produces a picture of a more concentrated market than officially reported. Lastly, one of the author's interesting conclusions is that China provides a better benchmark than the formerly centrally planned economies of Central and Eastern Europe by which to assess the viability of state ownership of banks in Russia and to evaluate the country's banking sector.
The paper examines the principles for the supervision of financial conglomerates proposed by BCBS in the consultative document published in December 2011. Moreover, the article proposes a number of suggestions worked out by the authors within the HSE research team.