scholarly journals Local government in Russia: new ways of constructing explanatory models for the needs of public administration

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 67-77
Author(s):  
Sergei Baranets ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Explanatory Models ◽  
Regional Level ◽  
Reference Points ◽  
Russian Society ◽  
Stage Of Development ◽  
State Organization

The article proceeds from the concept of understanding local government in Russia as a projection of the potestar (pre-state) organization of public life, which transforms under the dominance of methods of state organization of public life, but retains its influence as the essential core of political and social interaction between people. The existing complex «state-municipal» mechanism for exercising power at the local level largely determines the forms and nature of political actors’ interaction at the regional level. State authorities, which are focused on the totality of their own administrative influences, have not yet succeeded in fully integrating local self-government into the general public space of responsibility for powers, since local power is unbuilt initially on the principles of autogenesis, autochthony and autonomy. The current situation contributes to the archaicism of a part of social relations. For some time now, to work in the multidimensional reality of society, the authorities have begun to need analytical models to understand what is happening. As an explanatory theoretical basis for the modes of existence of local authorities developed and described by the author in the current stage of development of Russian statehood, a modal methodology is used, supplemented by the results of constructing model-oriented political ontologies, which reflect the aggregates of the layers and actors of the municipal sphere of sociopolitical reality at the regional level that are actually and actively present in the Russian society. The author is interested in searching the patterns that operate in the environment created and cultivated by the organizational and activity efforts of state structures against the background of sociocultural and other characteristics inherent in the regions. Possible working models for the needs of public administration arising from the modes offered by the author are still under development, since the reform of constitutional rules proposed by the country’s leadership raises the question of new forms of organizing the continuum of coexistence and interaction of local and state authorities in Russia. The article outlines the main research lines that indicate a number of features and reference points of the author’s approach in understanding the relationship between local government and municipal government, which may serve as an occasion for a new circle of discussions of specialists interested in the prospects for the development of political potential in the Russian municipal environment.

Spatial and Institutional Analysis of the Voivodships Expenditure on Culture in the Years 2003 – 2015

e-Finanse ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 67-75
Author(s):  
Adam Mateusz Suchecki
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Institutional Analysis ◽  
The State ◽  
Cultural Institutions ◽  
Location Quotient ◽  
Local Authorities ◽  
National Heritage

AbstractFollowing the completion of the process of decentralisation of public administration in Poland in 2003, a number of tasks implemented previously by the state authorities were transferred to the local level. One of the most significant changes to the financing and management methods of the local authorities was the transfer of tasks related to culture and national heritage to the set of tasks implemented by local governments. As a result of the decentralisation process, the local government units in Poland were given significant autonomy in determining the purposes of their budgetary expenditures on culture. At the same time, they were obliged to cover these expenses from their own revenues.This paper focuses on the analysis of expenditures on culture covered by the voivodship budgets, taking into consideration the structure of cultural institutions by their types, between 2003-2015. The location quotient (LQ) was applied to two selected years (2006 and 2015) to illustrate the diversity of expenditures on culture in individual voivodships.

scholarly journals DETERMINANTS OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP DEVELOPMENT IN THE OPINION OF THE AUTHORITIES OF RURAL AND SEMI-URBAN MUNICIPALITIES IN WARMIŃSKO-MAZURSKIE VOIVODESHIP

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 97-104
Author(s):  
Iwona Pomianek
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Education Level ◽  
Regional Level ◽  
Natural Areas ◽  
Entrepreneurship Development ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
Urban Rural ◽  
Protected Natural Areas ◽  
Rural Municipalities

The paper presents opinions of local government authorities on determinants of local entrepreneurship development. The research conducted in 2017 in rural and urban-rural municipalities of Warmińsko-Mazurskie Voivodship (Poland) shows that among the locational conditions for entrepreneurship development the tourist attractiveness was rated as the highest. Infrastructural conditions were assessed as favourable while such features of the residents as education level, age or qualifications were satisfactory for the respondents. Protected natural areas, popular in the analysed region, were both a barrier and an opportunity for entrepreneurship development. Moreover, self-government activities were evaluated as good on the local level, and satisfactory on the regional level.

scholarly journals Reformasi Birokrasi Daerah: Variasi Inovasi Birokrasi Perizinan Pasca Otonomi Daerah Regional Bureaucratic Reform: Bureuacratic Business License Innovation Variant in Post-Decentralization Era

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
I.Gusti.Gede Heru Marwanto ◽  
Suwarno Suwarno
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Regional Level ◽  
Doing Business ◽  
Bureaucratic Reform

AbstractDecentralization era brings more slice economy cakes to the local/regional level. However, the authority which given to the local government does not directly enhance local investment. Local bureaucracy still hampers the investment, but several local governments can reform their bureaucracy affecting the easiness of doing business at the local level. This paper presents the best practices of local government to initiate innovation in their business license office according to local needs. At least, those innovations come up with the thesis that there is no one size fits all. Decentralization is about to bring policy close to the most in need and come up with the variation. Keywords: Regional Bureaucratic Reform, Decentralization, Local Investment, Innovation, Business License Office

Measuring Efficiency at the Regional Level: A Data Envelopment Analysis Approach

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 679-696
Author(s):  
Suncana Slijepcevic
Keyword(s):  
Data Envelopment Analysis ◽  
Local Government ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Regional Level ◽  
Public Expenditures ◽  
Data Envelopment ◽  
Average Decrease ◽  
Measuring Efficiency ◽  
State And Local ◽  
Using Data

European countries have been continuously under the pressure to improve public balances and efficiency of public spending. Economic crisis which started during 2007 weakened public finances at the state and local level in countries all over the world. In Croatia local government budgets are still below the pre-crisis level in many local government units. This paper empirically examines efficiency of public expenditures at the regional level. Performance has been investigated by developing a composite indicator of output. Spending efficiency at the regional level was analysed using Data Envelopment Analysis methodology. Results suggest that there are large differences at the regional level in using resources to provide public services. The results show that the local government units in the least efficient county should on average decrease their expenses by 55 percent, while achieving the same performance to become efficient.

SOCIAL FACTORS OF TRANSFORMATION OF LOCAL SELFGOVERNMENT IN MODERN RUSSIA

2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 14-22
Author(s):  
Черкашин ◽  
Sergey Cherkashin ◽  
Магомедов ◽  
Kerem Magomedov
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Social Factors ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Practical Interest ◽  
Sociological Research ◽  
Russian Society ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
The Russian Federation

Local self-government in Russia remains a problematic link in the national system of public process. Lack of efficiency of local authorities reduces the development potential of the entire Russian society. Many of the problems faced by Russian citizens in their daily lives, are the responsibility of local government, but their solutions are not always achieved in the form and completeness, which can satisfy the population of municipalities. This is due to the influence of various social factors on local government. Study of the effect of such factors is not only scientific, but also of practical interest. In the article on the materials of sociological research on actual problems of functioning and development of local self-government in the Russian Federation carried out by the sociological group of the Institute of Public Administration and Management of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration in 2014, some of the significant issues of the influence of social factors on the effective functioning of local governments in the Russian Federation are discussed.

scholarly journals BUDGETARY REVENUE BREAKDOWN AT THE LOCAL LEVEL OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION IN FEDERAL COUNTRIES

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 218
Author(s):  
Serhiy Shkarlet ◽  
Iryna Dolozina ◽  
Maksym Dubyna
Keyword(s):  
Cluster Analysis ◽  
Local Government ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Bosnia And Herzegovina ◽  
Financial Stability ◽  
Group Structure ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Financial Resources ◽  
Financial Autonomy ◽  
The Impact

Ensuring the financial autonomy of local government bodies is an important component for creating conditions on accelerating the development of individual territories of the country and increasing the efficiency of their use. Creation of mechanisms for providing sufficient amounts of financial resources, activities of the above-mentioned authorities require thorough research in this area, especially within the study of foreign experience by building budget systems and organizing redistribution of financial resources between their individual components at different levels. Experience of federative countries is particularly significant in this area. The outlined confirms the relevance of the chosen topic of the article. Accordingly, the following goal of the research was set – to identify structural features and trends in the transformation of budget revenues at the local level of public administration in federative countries from 2000 to 2015. To achieve this goal, the following tasks were set: to determine the revenues structure of local government in federative countries; to analyse main tendencies of the change of the specified structure during 2000–2015; to apply cluster analysis in order to identify groups of countries that are similar to the processes of revenue generation of local government budgets in federative countries. Methodology. Statistics for assessment of budgetary revenue’s breakdown in several federative countries by the IMF data was processed, assessment of breakdown transformation with the use of the Ryabtsev index was done, and similarity and distinctions of revenue’s breakdown in different countries with the use of the hierarchical cluster analysis was investigated. Outcomes. It was found that among the analysed federative countries, the own tax revenue has a significant share (higher than 30% in a breakdown of all revenue) only in Belgium, Germany, Australia, Canada, and also in Bosnia and Herzegovina; the inter-budgetary transfers take the main position in financing of local budgets in Austria, Belgium, Canada, Russia, and Brazil; own non-tax revenues in local budgets are significant only in Australia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. It was proved that in fifteen years only in Russia, the opposite type of revenues breakdown sources was created and it demonstrates shifting to the centralization of public finance. It was also revealed that in 2000, the countries’ cluster structure by breakdown sign had obviously expressed group character, but further it evolved from a group structure to the step structure displaying specifics in the formation of local budgets’ revenues in each country. Practical implications. Practical outcomes of the study are analytical information on the structure of revenues of local government in federative countries, which may be useful by introducing new mechanisms for increasing the financial autonomy of local self-government. In addition, the obtained data may be useful for other not federative countries in terms of studying peculiarities of the formation of budget revenues of local government and analysis of the impact of such revenues on the socio-economic development of separate territories. Value/originality. The conducted study is relevant given the importance of developing local government in federative countries and providing it with the necessary financial resources for independent self-functioning. The data obtained during the research implementation are of practical value and can be used in the process of implementing measures to increase the financial independence of budget revenues at the level of local self-government in federative countries. This research was carried out within the framework of the scientific work performing of the Department of Finance, Banking and Insurance of the Chernihiv National University of Technology on the following topics: “Financial stability of economic systems in crisis management” (No. 0115U001149) and “Theoretical and applied aspects on financial provision of the national economy” (State Registration No. 0113U002741).

Local Government Capacity and Citizen Co-production: A Review of Theory and Evidence

2014 ◽  
Vol 2013 (4) ◽  
pp. 103-131
Author(s):  
Xuan Tu
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Policy Development ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Policy Formulation ◽  
Public Programs ◽  
Implementation Capacity ◽  
Government Capacity ◽  
Policies And Programs ◽  
Relationship Of

AbstractGovernment capacity is an important topic in the study of public administration (Burgess 1975; Honadle 1981). The terms capacity, capability or ability have become a concern of government agencies because of the need to develop policies and programs (Gargan 1981). More recently failures of public programs and the increasing demands of the public have also brought attention to this important topic (Ingraham 2003; Andrews and Boyne 2010). Despite the common use of capacity, the term is not well defined in the current public administration literature. In this paper the focus is upon the implementation capacity in local government. They are largely responsible for service delivery, whereas higher levels of government are more removed and have coordination and policy development responsibilities. In this study, the researcher undertakes a comprehensive approach to investigate what is currently known about government capacity by integrating the empirical research that has been published in the past fifty years. It reviews 43 articles that rigorously discuss capacity or capacity building at the local level and 62 articles on citizen co-production. The analysis suggests that government capacity only perceived within organizations is limited. The majority of attention has been paid to management capacity particularly policy formulation capacity, leaving implementation capacity less touched. Sub-analyses reveal different dimensions of government capacity which are dominantly studied in western literature. The evidence points to an association between government capacity and citizen co-production. This paper enriches the literature by developing a new relationship of government capacity and citizen co-production at the local level.

scholarly journals The Analysis of Factors of Formation of the Modern System of Political Governance: Global, Regional and Local Levels

2021 ◽  
pp. 107-115
Author(s):  
A. D. Tumanov
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Political System ◽  
System Analysis ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Categorical Imperative ◽  
Regional Level ◽  
Modern World ◽  
The Political ◽  
Theoretical Understanding ◽  
Local Levels

The relevance of the work is due to the growing influence of the processes of globalization and the need for a systematic and theoretical understanding of the interdependence of different levels of development and adaptation of the political system in the modern world. The situation of the COVID pandemic, which began in 2020 and demonstrated the dominance of global attitudes and rules over regional and local attitudes and rules, gives special relevance to this article. The purpose of the work is to clarify the essence and possibilities of applying system analysis to the process of public administration at the level of global integration, regional and local levels of public administration. At the same time, the essence of system analysis is not reduced to solving problems of management and decision-making on very complex problems, but a complete system and methodology for analyzing the adaptation practices of modern political systems at the global, regional and local levels is built. The author comes to the conclusion that it is the local level that is the basis for the formation of the modern political system, and it is worth focusing on it, and not on the global and regional levels, when carrying out certain political changes and transformations. The regional level is an add-on to the local level, and can include multiple local levels. The task of the regional level is to prevent conflict between multiple localities, to ensure their harmonious coexistence and development. Due to the spread of digitalization, the regional level loses its function as an intermediary between the local and the global. The global level of formation of the political system today, in turn, is an “umbrella” level. It appears as a categorical imperative of the political system, but it is not its mandatory guide or guide of development.

scholarly journals DEPARTMENTAL AND BRANCH PERIODICALS IN PUBLIC LIFE AT THE BEGINNING OF XIX CENTURY

2021 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 710-720
Author(s):  
V. V. Kalendarova
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Russian Society ◽  
Periodical Press ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Reaction ◽  
Xix Century ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
Further Development

The article examines the question of the public reaction to the appearance of newspapers and magazines focused on the “serious reading”, using the example of branch and departmental periodicals that appeared in Russia in the late 18th - early 19th centuries. Based on the analysis of readers’ and critics’ responses, as well as of circulation of several studied magazines and newspapers and of their future (disappearance or replacement by another periodical), it is concluded that some of these magazines and newspapers faced difficulties in finding “their own” readers. However, there was a demand for some other public administration periodicals in the Russian society at the beginning of the 19th century, which leaded to their commercial success. These periodicals have laid the foundations for the further development of branch and departmental periodical press in Russia, the wide development of this type of press being observed in the second half of the 19th century.

Constitutional policy of law of modern Russia: ideas, priorities, values, directions

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Павел Баранов ◽  
Pavel Baranov ◽  
Алексей Овчинников ◽  
Aleksey Ovchinnikov ◽  
Алексей Мамычев ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Political Extremism ◽  
Legal Doctrine ◽  
Legal Policy ◽  
Russian State ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Comprehensive Study

The monograph is a comprehensive study of the nature, content and priorities of the constitutional and legal policy of the Russian state. The authors identify and analyze various elements of the constitutional legal doctrine (value-normative, socio-political, economic, international law, spiritual and moral, etc.), as well as the directions of its development in Russia in the XXI century. Constitutional and legal policy is considered in the context of modern problems of national and religious security, in the sphere of combating political extremism, corruption, network wars, etc.the analysis of practical issues related to the implementation of constitutional and legal policy in various spheres of state and public life is Carried out. The publication is aimed at specialists in the field of law, political science, public administration. The book can also be used in the study of such disciplines as "Constitutional law of the Russian Federation", "Legal policy of the modern state", " Fundamentals of national security»

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