Vol. 1 No. 4 (2012)

The article analyses the formation of the modern concept of cultural typology as a fundamental methodological problem of the modern philosophy of culture. The paper presents the selection criteria and a set of major indicators of the concept of modern cultural typology. The author brings forward the arguments for creating cognitive typology of culture.

The article argues that the redistribution of financial resources between the budget system levels should be enhanced by the mechanism of budget quallevelling.

The article focuses on basic stages of establishing e-government in Russia and outlines long-term perspectives for administrative reform in Rostov region.

The article dwells on the role of municipal management in strengthening civil society institutions.

The authors analyse the current economic climate and describe a number of measures to further improve the forms of public and private partnership.

The article analyses the possibility of adapting settlement and cash operations to the changed financial market in Russia and contains recommendations aimed at developing effective tools for a banking sector.

The article focuses on the need for further improvement of state policy concerning the labour market within the framework of developing strategies to provide better employment opportunities in the region for the period up to 2020.

The article presents the basic components of industrial relations system and analyses the major indicators of regulating industrial relations, in particular, the ratio of the average monthly nominal added salary of employees in organizations to the median salary level in different business areas across Russia.

The article discusses the issues of international air shipment, which determine the “e-freight” technology adaptation by the industry members for purposes of increasing their efficiency and competitiveness on the global transport services market.

The article proves the need for local administrations to apply the rating system when estimating municipalities tax potential and the extent of realizing the declared tax indices for each financial year.

The article dwells on qualitative criteria of innovative development of the industrial enterprises. The study is based on specific features of the industry.

The article focuses on the analysis of innovation activities in Southern Federal District which involves the integral indicator and Rash Measurement Models. The author applies Rash Unidimensional Measurement Models developed by prof. Andrich as a software tool for measuring of latent variables.

The article dwells on the role of nobility in shaping public consciousness of the New Times. It analyses the transformation of Western European public consciousness in the 18 th century.

The article outlines the basic sources of financing terrorist formations worldwide, the transfer to the network principles of organization and gives the broad picture of reduction in outer sources and diversification of inner sources of terrorism financing in the North Caucasus.

The article dwells on specifics of social protest in modern society under globalization and developments to the classical theory of relative deprivation. The author offers his own interpretation of technology of mobilizing public protest potential and analyses the phenomenon of universal scenarios for large-scale protest activity in various countries.

The article analyses different approaches to defining coaching / guidance and its tasks. The author singles out different guidance models and the type of civil servants who can be involved in coaching and describes positive and negative aspects of guidance practices.

The article analyses major causes, types and make-up of participants of industrial action and defines the risk and effects of labour disputes between employers and employees.

The article analyses specific features of political culture in modern Russian society and proves the need to create tools for developing democratic political culture.

The article dwells on urgent problems of social policy aimed at improving employment situation for young people in rural areas.

This article analyses the current trend of greater citizen participation in federal and municipal management and administration by use of Internet technologies. The author describes the effect of net politics on civil society, the possibility of public control of state agencies and the attitude of major statesmen to establishing e-democracy.

В статье освещаются проблемы российского элитогенеза, проводится дифференциация экономической элиты, исследуется взаимосвязь экономической элиты с другими видами элит. Рассматриваются особенности элитогенеза в переходный период, делается вывод о несоответствии российских элит своему статусу и перекосах в условиях трансформации политической системы.

The article analyses the most effective ways of improving tax and economic potential of the Southern Federal District.

The article focuses on workplace adaptation of migrant workers and immigrants, the specific make-up of migrants who prefer to seek employment in particular type of jobs and the need to improve state policy aimed at providing employment for migrants.

В статье обоснована эффективность публичного управления, достигаемая через функционирование партисипативного механизма, предполагающего три диапазона степени привлечения населения к участию в решении государственно-общественных вопросов.

This article focuses on the fundamentals and benefits of the partnership between the state and business community, the problems of its development and its role in the country’s social and economic development.

The article dwells on the gender specifics of political power and political leadership phenomenon viewed as an object of politological research. The author attempts to analise the history and development of gender research as a part of political science evolution.

The article describes political significance of improving the efficiency of public service sphere viewed in retrospective, its current stage and perspective of this nation’s development. It gives recommendations on switching state agencies and institutions and local administrative bodies to the project management model.

The article presents the author’s model of the interaction between the innovation system of national education and market economy in the period of modernization and describes one of the prerequisites for innovative development of higher education across the Russian Federation the system of regional policy in the field of education, science and innovation.

The article focuses on the state regulation measures aimed at enhancing corporate social responsibility and describes ways and methods of encouraging socially responsible businesses operating in Russia.