The monograph reviews the development of small and medium entrepreneurship since the beginning of economic and socio-political reforms in the Russian Federation; analyzes the main stages of formation the system of institutions and instruments of government policy of small businesses promoting in the national economy. The paper provides current picture of Russian small business and its interaction with the state. Special attention is paid to the possibilities of strengthening the contribution of SMEs to implementation the priorities of modernization and "new industrialization" of the Russian economy. It’s emphasized that the solution of this problem requires significant adjustments in the public policy, aimed at the VSE sector support and development; closer linkages with other relevant components of the state economic policy, improving institutional and resource provision of the state support measures of SMEs in Russia. The monograph presents possible ways to increase flexibility and goal-oriented nature of this direction of economic policy and to strengthen significantly the role of sub-Federal (regional and municipal) levels of governance in solving the problems of the extension of SMEs’ role as one of the major locomotives of the Russian economy modernization.

The collection  contains scientific articles of the international scientific-practical conference "State Administration and Public Service: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow in the Context of E-Government and the Digital Economy", held at the Higher School of Public Administration (HSAA) of MV Lomonosov Moscow State University in the framework of the XIV NAUKA Science Festival 0+ (October 11-13, 2019). The materials of the collection reflect the results of research conducted by undergraduates of the first and second courses of the Higher School of Public Administration. This scientific publication will be useful to undergraduate students, undergraduates, researchers, and everyone interested in the current state and development trends of the theory of public service, public administration and management, as well as their practice in modern conditions of digitalization of public life.

The presented book is written for several categories of readers. Authors with the main idea- to receive the instruction for preparation of the publication, can consider only the first part of the book. Here we present the short description of stages of the project on writing research articles: preparatory stages, main stages and final stage. These stages cover the research project from the moment of his idea to the text delivery for publication and the presentation of results of the project. Experts in methodology of scientific research and those authors who would like to understand the reasons of such, but not other sequence of stages, to understand features of maintenance of key stages of the research project preparation, can focus on the second part. It contains developed explanations and the reasonings on some essentially important technologies and methods of research in the field of the public and municipal administration. In this part, teachers of research seminars will find approved, well-recommended techniques of the research seminar organization, promoting students' research initiative and their best inclusion in work.

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For students of the higher educational institutions studying in the social and economic directions.