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Факторы реализации административной реформы в российских регионах (на примере многофункциональных центров)
This study is devoted to the analysis of the multifunctional centers providing state and municipal services in Russia, the establishment of which is the main focus of the administrative reform. The development of multifunctional centers will be considered as a policy adopted with the aim of improving the quality of public services in the framework of modernization policy.
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The article is devoted to the analysis of Russian e-government formation and
development factors in the context of policy innovation research. The evolution and current
state of e-government is examined. It is stated that the e-government in Russia has a
contradictory dynamics. The key factors of its formation are outer-oriented motivation to meet
international trends and inner – oriented pursuit of legitimacy and public administration
reform. The innovation has been implementing in the logics of modernization from above,
which with unstable political leadership, closed public sphere, ineffective executives,
institutional transfer mistakes and lack of resources has lead to its low results.
Keywords: e-government, Russia, administrative reform, policy innovations, authoritarian
modernization
Electronic Government in Russia became a strategic component in the governance process. To establish trust and security in the electronic interaction process between authorities and citizens, the Russian Government aims to deliver high quality public services through a secured and comfortable environment. The complexity of Strategic eGovernment decisions is illustrated through the example of a key eGovernment solution, the Citizens Electronic Card. The Citizens eCard project case study outlines strategic management issues caused by the interrelation between eGovernment and administrative reforms in Russia. The necessary technological, legal and organisational changes performed in Russia to effectively organise the national eGovernment system are also analysed.
This chapter presents papers by the participants of the working group “Local Governance and Local Democracy”. Oxana Chernenko, Ass. Prof. of HSE, and Susan Guerra, Municipality of Oslo, Unit for Sustainability, were the academic supervisors of this group, Chuck Hirt, Council of Europe, expert, head of Citizens Network.
The group worked on the following research problems. According to the
European Charter of Local Self-Government (1985), “Local self-government denotes the right and the ability of local authorities, within the limits of the law, to regulate and manage a substantial share of public affairs under their own responsibility and in the interests of the local population”. To what extent does practice of municipal governance in the Russian Federation give us justification of this phenomenon?
Almost everywhere in theRussian Federation municipal management is not based on local self-government. The process of transferring management functions to local communities level is not developing but rather declining. The signs of interaction of local self-governance with municipal management can only be seen in rural settlements and towns. They are weak in city settlements, despite of the favorable local environment, and are not shown in any way at the municipal areas level where bodies of municipal management associate themselves with the government, and this
aspiration is supported by the regional level of the state government(power). The institute of local authorities institute is different by nature, which causes constantly arising problems with the explanation, and furthermore, with prediction local selfgovernance trends. Absence of a developed methodology does not allow to provide standard consistent recommendations about the structure of municipal authority. The
object of research is still “too young” (despite the deep tradition of self-governance in Russia, not only in rural communities, but also in towns) and still very much dependent on the local social and administrative features, as well as on the territorial and spatial features of the country.
The aim of this project was to study and analyze models of self -governance at the level of local communities through cross-country comparison (especially from a legal perspective) and to see how the European experience can be implemented in Russia.
These issues are discussed in the participants’ papers, including “Reputationbased governance and making states ‘legible’ to their citizens” by Lucio Picci, “Improving the quality of municipal service: cases on administrative reforms in the UK and Sweden” by Julia Minaeva, and “Local Governance in Scandinavian countries: is there a Common Model?” by Svetlana Tokunova.
The Concept for Comprehensive Organizational and Managerial Reform of the Law Enforcement Agencies of the Russian Federation, prepared by the Institute for the Rule of Law at the European University, St. Petersburg, proposes creating interdepartmental systems of mutual oversight, opening up law enforcement agencies to public oversight, and eliminating the incentives and conditions that induce law enforcement personnel to commit illegal actions and apply the law selectively.
The article is about actual issues of administrative and judicial reforms, a number of important for understanding of the issue terms (legal process, the administrative process, administrative and procedural activities, administrative justice, administrative jurisdiction, administrative court proceedings, etc.), various problems of administrative cases in the courts, and in pre-trial (court) order. The new procedural act (the Code of Administrative Court Procedure) is also analyzed. A lot of attention is also paid to the issue of pre-trial damages.
The book presents a broad interdisciplinary view comcerning different aspects of civil service reforms in several countries, including Russia, in the context of transformation of role of state and character of its relations with civil society, what is taking place now in the leading coutries of the world. The main historical concepts of bureaucracy and contemporary searches new (post-Weberian) model of it are considered In the first - theoretical - part of book. The second part is devoted to inter-countries' comparative analysis of history and modern condition of civil service in Creat Britain, USA, Canada, France, Germany. The final section in each countries' paragraph is "The lessons for Russia". The subject of the third part is the Russian bureaucracy in historical and contemporary aspects. The American, English, Canadian, Rfzakh and Russian codes of civil servants' conduct applied to the monograth.