Вахтина Маргарита Анатольевна

The article substantiates the position that one of the most important functions of civil society is the translation of public needs into state and economic subsystems. At the same time, civil society is understood as an analytically independent sphere and to a certain extent empirically separated from the state and from the market. Relying on the provisions of Richard Musgrave's concept of meritorious goods, the authors prove that the public interest is formed as a result of individual preferences learned and accepted by individuals acting in accordance with group norms and attitudes. In this regard, one of the main functions of non-governmental non-profit organizations - actors of civil society - is to establish trust relations with the public administration sphere, on the one hand, and the economic sphere, on the other. The application of the research approach of the meritorious concept to the analysis of civil society, according to the authors, opens up a wide range for economic research that does not belong to the classical school. The article deals mainly with theoretical aspects of the formation of social needs with the participation of civil society. At the same time, the opinion is expressed that the mechanism of partnership interaction of civil institutions with the state contributes to the effective implementation of the function of translating public needs into other subsystems of society.

In article the measures undertaken by the government of the Russian Federation aimed at ensuring access of the non-state organizations to rendering social services to the population and entering of additional types of the state support to socially oriented non-profit organizations are considered. In a complex of these measures legislative initiatives on ensuring access of the non-profit organizations performing activities in the social sphere to the budgetary funds allocated for implementation of the state (municipal) order and also issue of the subsidized credits. Entering of new legal statuses of the non-profit organizations emphasizing their social orientation and implementation of purposeful measures of the state support increases competition level in the market of social services. However in this question it is impossible to allow a formalism and an excessive centralized regulation as it can lead to destruction of the potential which is saved up in this sphere and decline in quality of the provided services.

On the basis of the provision on "limited morals", being cornerstone of opportunistic behavior, need of improvement of social institutes locates in article in the direction of ensuring social justice. The original typology of opportunism depending on degree of economic freedom of subjects is offered. From these theoretical positions authors offer the institutional measures directed on overcoming of active (corruption) and passive opportunistic behavior.