scholarly journals Imitation as an Activity and Research Method

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 189-202
Author(s):  
Nikolay S. Savkin
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Systematic Approach ◽  
Social Institution ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Ruling Elite ◽  
Financial Flows ◽  
Party Organizations ◽  
Science And Education ◽  
The Masses ◽  
Equipment And Instruments

Introduction. In the 21st century the phenomenon of imitation associated with the formal reproduction of operations and procedures is gaining popularity in many countries, including Russia, and requires a socio-philosophical analysis and interpretation. Imitation manifests itself in politics, economics, science, education, replacing the real activities of individuals, social groups, political structures with a fake form of activity, thereby representing a social danger to development. Research Methods. In the process of the study, dialectical-materialistic, synergetic methods were used, which made it possible to draw objective, scientifically-based conclusions about the possibility and necessity of overcoming the negative consequences of imitative influences in education, healthcare and science. A systematic approach and a comprehensive assessment of the processes under study makes it possible to reveal the contradictory nature of simulation manipulations. The Results. The finding of the study indicate that the imitation of public administration leads to the loss of high prestige of the state as a leading social institution for regulating socio-economic processes in society, and a decline in the authority of the ruling elite. In the minds of the masses of people there are doubts about the ability of the “top” to systematically manage the development of society. Discussion and Conclusion. The expected effect of a critical analysis of the manifestations of imitation in public administration, healthcare, science, and education is the desire of state structures, party organizations to overcome the negative consequences of imitation manifestations. In the field of science, there is an urgent need to regulate the transparency of financial flows, all decision-making procedures, upgrade equipment and instruments, radically increase salaries in order to attract young people to scientific research, to raise the prestige of science.

Extreme Situation and Challenges of the Time

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 96-103
Author(s):  
Nikolay S. Savkin
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Approach ◽  
Health Care Financing ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Extreme Situation ◽  
Effective Response ◽  
Timely Response ◽  
Natural Man ◽  
The One ◽  
The Masses

Introduction. In the XXI century cases of emergence of extreme situations in the world, including in Russia, associated with natural, man-made, social disasters, have become more frequent, requiring urgent adequate decisions from society, politicians, scientists responsible for the fate of people. An extreme situation is an extraordinary situation that goes beyond the usual framework. In this sense, it is a new social reality at a given time, different from the commonplace, everyday life. It can be individual, when a person is left alone in a position of self-isolation, and public, when it concerns the masses, society, humanity. Methods. In the process of the study, a dialectical materialistic, synergistic method was used, which made it possible to draw objective, scientifically substantiated conclusions about the need and possibility of overcoming the negative consequences of incompetent, unqualified decisions in response to the challenges of the time. A systematic approach and a comprehensive assessment of the processes under study allow us to reveal the contradictory nature of the extreme: on the one hand, it shows the mobilization capabilities of the authorities in order to find an effective response to the challenges of the time, on the other hand, it allows us to evaluate the country’s health system from the point of view of effectiveness. Discussion and Conclusion. The expected effect of a critical analysis of the extreme situation associated with the spread of the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic in Russia was a fairly timely response from the country’s leadership, as a result of which a professionally grounded concept of responding to the challenge was presented: an increase in health care financing, doctors’ salaries and medical workers, activization of scientists on the removal of vaccination against coronavirus, etc.

Devotion, Discontent, and the Henrician Reformation: The Evidence of the Robin Hood Stories

2002 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sean Field
Keyword(s):  
Social Institution ◽  
Religious Change ◽  
Henry Viii ◽  
Robin Hood ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
Local Parish ◽  
Fresh Perspective ◽  
The Face ◽  
Late Fifteenth ◽  
The Masses

The relationship between popular religious attitudes and the English Reformation has long been the subject of a fierce historical debate. The older “Whig-Protestant” view, championed most notably by A. G. Dickens, draws on evidence for clerical corruption and the spread of Lollardy to show that large numbers of English people were dissatisfied with the state of Catholicism, eager for religious change, and on the whole receptive to Protestant ideas. According to this version of events, Henry VIII and the Reformation Parliament rode a wave of popular discontent in breaking from Rome and dissolving the monasteries. If there was a split between the king and the masses, it came only later when Henry's conservative religious beliefs caused him to attempt to retain much of the substance of Catholicism in the face of popular clamor for more thoroughgoing reform. On the other hand, the “revisionist” camp, which includes such well-known names as J. J. Scarisbrick, Christopher Haigh, and Eamon Duffy, prefers to cite evidence from wills, local parish records, liturgical books, and devotional texts to show that “the Church was a lively and relevant social institution, and the Reformation was not the product of a long-term decay of medieval religion.” In this view, Henry VIII and his advisors pushed through a personally advantageous but widely disliked and resisted Reformation.An examination of the religious content of the tales men and women told about Robin Hood in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries offers a fresh perspective on this long-running dispute.

State of the digital age: modeling of institutional transformations

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 4-11
Author(s):  
D. V. Shelokov
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Social Institution ◽  
The State ◽  
Social Orientation ◽  
Strategic Decisions ◽  
Social Modeling ◽  
Digital Representations ◽  
Real Process ◽  
Number Of Factors ◽  
Information And Communication

The state is a complex social entity that plays a system-forming role in society. This is reflected in the implementation of many functions inherent in the state as a social institution. Their combination implies a directed influence on the elements that interact in a certain situation, in order to achieve goals in the most effective ways. Such goals seem significant in the context of a certain set of socially useful aspects of life. The implementation of public administration in such conditions actualizes its social orientation, which is based on a scientific approach using modern information and communication digital technologies. This approach should be based on social modeling, which is a specific way of knowing the corresponding aspect of being. Its specificity lies not only in the formalization of knowledge about social structures and processes, but also in the reflection of controlled and spontaneous processes, the awareness of the necessary actions and the will to carry them out in the interacting subjects – actors and building by them of a logically related model of behavior. At the same time, a feature of cognition is the maximum approximation of the formed image to a real process or phenomenon. This is achieved by taking into account the largest number of factors in their relationship with each other, as well as goals of creating the model and the results expected from its implementation. Within the framework of social modeling, there are objective ways to form a behavioral image that allow you to predict the direction and content specifics of the development of many social processes. The article considers the main areas of application of social modeling in public administration: assessment of the effectiveness of management bodies in the monitoring mode, development of strategic decisions, their translation into technological formats, digital representations of strategies and technologies.

scholarly journals IMPROVING THE IMPLEMENTATION OF ADMINISTRATIVE AND LEGAL MEASURES FOR THE PREVENTION OF OFFENSES AGAINST OFFICIALS OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION BODIES

2020 ◽  
Vol 33 (20) ◽  
pp. 88-94
Author(s):  
U. Y. Rusanyuk
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Social Activity ◽  
Organizational Factors ◽  
Regulatory Framework ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Preventive Work ◽  
Systematic Development ◽  
Work Coordination ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Technical Measures

The article is devoted to the identification of ways of increasing the efficiency of the implementation of administrative and legal measures for the prevention of offenses by officials of public administration bodies. Ways to increase the efficiency of the implementation of administrative and legal measures for the prevention of offenses of officials of public administration bodies are differentiated into organizational, methodological, information, technical and legal. The article substantiates that organizational factors of increasing the efficiency of the implementation of administrative and legal measures for the prevention of offenses of officials of public administration are aimed at neutralizing and reducing the impact of the negative consequences of violation of the performance of official duties by these officials. Among the organizational ways of improving the efficiency of the implementation of administrative and legal measures for the prevention of offenses of officials of public administration, bodies are the improvement of the system of subjects of such activity, forms and methods of preventive work, coordination of their efforts in counteracting offenses in the system of public administration. It is determined that the key to improving the implementation of administrative and legal measures for the prevention of offenses of officials of public administration is the systematic development of methodological recommendations for subdivisions (officials) of public administration on the prevention of offenses of official nature, the implementation of special training for the purpose of training which may lead to the commission of offenses by an official. The article is devoted to the analysis of technical measures of prevention of offenses of officials of public administration bodies, covering special technologies, rules, means that prevent the occurrence of negative consequences in the process of social activity of people, committing offenses. The article substantiates that improving the implementation of administrative and legal measures for the prevention of offenses of officials of public administration requires the development of a clear regulatory framework for the neutralization of conditions that facilitate the commission of administrative offenses. Keywords: offenses, public administration bodies, officials, prevention of offenses, administrative and legal measures of prevention of offenses of public administration officials, counteraction to offenses.

scholarly journals FEATURES OF RESULT BASED FINANCING HIGHER EDUCATION

THE BULLETIN ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (390) ◽  
pp. 50-57
Author(s):  
Iryna Kalenyuk ◽  
Olena Grishnova ◽  
Liudmyla Tsymbal ◽  
Deniss Djakons
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Education System ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Knowledge Society ◽  
Public Funding ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Financial Flows ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
The World ◽  
Financing Higher Education

The key role of the education system in the formation of a knowledge society is raising the issue of improving its financing. In the face of new challenges and aggravation of global competition, the mechanism for financing the higher education system is being transformed. The need to increase funding is manifested in expanding financial sources and improving the management of various financial flows. Increasing the effectiveness of public funding is becoming an important issue, which remains the main source of financial revenues for institutions of higher education in countries of the world. A promising practice in the world is the use of funding based on the results of activity, which is becoming more widespread in various areas of economic activity. The purpose of this article is to study the current world-wide practice of applying results-based financing of higher education and defining promising directions for its implementation in Ukraine. The essence and features of RBF - Result Based Financing (RBF) method, including in the system of higher education, are revealed. The existing approaches to financing higher education institutions in the world based on results are systematized, the main criteria for their definition are identified: on the basis of inputs, process, output, output. The world practice of using higher education institutions financing based on the results, positive and negative consequences of its implementation is highlighted and summarized. The necessity of using RBF funding in the system of native education is proved, the main directions and areas of its use are determined. The application of a two-tier model of financing higher education institutions in Ukraine is proposed, which combines the traditional cost-oriented approach and funding based on the results of the activity.

scholarly journals The Party Building Leads the Innovative Exploration of Grassroots Governance in Rural Pastoral Areas under the Concept of Co-governance

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (5) ◽  
pp. 125-131
Author(s):  
Dengpeng  Jing
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Public Services ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Grassroots Organizations ◽  
Party Organization ◽  
Party Organizations ◽  
Party Building ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
The Masses ◽  
The Relationship

With the rapid development of society and economy, grassroots organizations in rural pastoral areas are an important part of party building, shouldering the mission of implementing party policies, and playing an important role in leading herdsmen to fight poverty and realize basic modernization in rural areas. The mission and responsibilities of grassroots party organizations in rural and pastoral areas are undergoing profound changes. Strengthening the construction of grassroots party organizations in rural and pastoral areas will help promote the relationship between the party and the masses, cadres and the masses in rural and pastoral areas, and promote the establishment of party organizations in rural and pastoral areas. At present, grassroots party building in rural pastoral areas is facing new challenges, such as insufficient party organization building, and unclear power boundaries between party organizations and villagers’ autonomous organizations. Only by accelerating the construction of infrastructure and public services in rural pastoral areas and doing a good job in the construction of rural grassroots party organizations can improve the level of party building in rural pastoral areas and promote the basic modernization of rural areas.

scholarly journals The use of digital technology in the public administration

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 419-428
Author(s):  
Sergey E. Channov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Public Information ◽  
Personal Data ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Specific Area ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Russian Federation

Introduction. The article is devoted to the use of digital technologies in the field of public administration using the example of state and municipal information systems. Currently, two types of such systems can be distinguished in the Russian Federation: 1) allowing direct enforcement activities; 2) used to capture certain information. Theoretical analysis. Information systems of the first type acquire the properties of an object of complex legal relations, in which suppliers and consumers of information, government bodies, as well as other persons become participants. This entails the fact that in the implementation of public administration, the source of regulation of public relations to a certain extent becomes the program code of these information systems. Accordingly, any failures and errors in the public information system become facts of legal importance. Empirical analysis. The main risks of using information systems of the second type in public administration relate to the illegal access (or use) of information stored in their databases. The consolidation of databases containing different types of information is a serious threat. In this regard, the creation of the Unified Federal Information Register containing information about the population of the Russian Federation, provided for by the Federal Law No. 168-FZ of 08.06.2020, may lead to a large number of socially negative consequences and comes into obvious conflict with the legislation on personal data. Results. State and municipal information systems themselves can improve public administration, including reducing corruption in the country. At the same time, their reduced discretion in management decisions is not always appropriate. Accordingly, their implementation should be preceded by the analysis of the characteristics of a specific area of management, as well as the proposed use of digital technologies.

scholarly journals DYNAMICS OF MEDIA AND SOCIETY INTERACTION IN COMMUNICATIVE SPACE

2013 ◽  
pp. 234-240
Author(s):  
D. I. Chistyakov
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Mass Communication ◽  
Structural Integrity ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Social Institution ◽  
Communication Model ◽  
Media Impact ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Masses ◽  
Late Modern

The article is dedicated to the analysis of the social issues caused by mass-media impact on individuals and society. The author bases on reflection of sociological theories and discourses of late modern and postmodern and thus shows the transformation of media and their audience on the society’s way to the postmodernity. Postmodern media are viewed as a specific social institution of postmodernity; the author also emphasizes the basic peculiarities of its institutionalization. Structural integrity between mass-media and society is ensured through mass communication in its one-sided direction of the only communicator to the masses, often turning into an influence on recipients. The article stems from the premise that a modernday person is included in qualitatively and quantitavely other communications than in a preceding era of late modernity. Mass-media’s influence on society is thus specific. Messages, images, symbols, signs created by media not only form our perspective, but also serve as keys to the perception of reality. A subject today is involved in endless interconnected streams of information, hence a subject doesn’t consume information in discreet blocks anymore. Rather, we can imagine a subject standing knee-deep in a vast stream grabbing whatever he or she may find interesting. Under the certain conditions the very reality is being substituted by the virtual reality. The author shows and analyses the communication model of the basic information producers and recipients.

Proverbs of Nonprofit Financial Management

2018 ◽  
Vol 49 (6) ◽  
pp. 649-661 ◽  
Author(s):  
George E. Mitchell ◽  
Thad D. Calabrese
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Research Program ◽  
Financial Management ◽  
Nonprofit Management ◽  
Management Theory ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Related Field ◽  
Traditional Management ◽  
Information Intermediaries ◽  
Management Paradigms

Whereas the field of public administration has benefited from periods of critical reflection and reform aimed at reexamining the field’s traditional management paradigms, the related field of nonprofit management has generally lacked such an analogously explicit and sustained research program to reevaluate its own conventional wisdoms. Meanwhile, accumulated findings from the last several decades of nonprofit management research have problematized many traditional assumptions and practices in nonprofit management, specifically regarding the soundness of nomothetic management theory, the unintended negative consequences of certain management norms, and underlying assumptions about the nature and purpose of nonprofit management. This article critically reexamines four well-known “proverbs” of nonprofit financial management—minimize overhead, diversify revenues, be lean, and avoid debt—to demonstrate the need for a critical and reflective research program that takes stock and reconsiders the field’s foundational principles and assumptions. Implications are derived for scholars and practitioners, as well as for information intermediaries that evaluate nonprofits based on financial information.

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