Vol. 1 No. 4 (2013)

Criteria of quality of the article in the magazine under review, factors and conditions of realization of VAK demands to the quality of scientific publications are considered in the article.

Contradictions of a modern control system in terms of the state purchasing policy are formulated in the article. The role of state-private partnership in the rise of the transparency of this sphere and effective management of the spendings of budgetary funds is proved.

Problem aspects of successfulness evaluation of innovation development management of a municipal formation are considered. Some approaches and models of quality evaluation and effectiveness of management in organizations are analyzed. The approach to building up the system of indicators of innovative development by S. Pavlova and the system of balanced indicators by Norton and Kaplan are considered as a methodological basis.

Modern mechanisms of public control are considered in the article, the analysis of activity of the open government is carried out, the new technologies of public administration based on broad involvement of citizens are offered.

Issues of the affect of the amount of receivables on the results of functioning of enterprises of housing and communal services, depending on the size of the enterprises, were considered in the article. Methods and tools to improve the management of receivables of the providers of the housing and communal services were substantiated.

The potential of common management system of the state public tenders is considered in the article.

The article considers the possibility of adaptation and application of the most successful and effective aspects of the tax system functioning in Germany, which will enable to bring the tax system of the Russian Federation to the optimal condition, improve the efficiency of its functioning and to solve key problems of tax policy of our country.

The article proposes a method of ranking of municipal programs for budget funding of assumed liabilities. It's based on using two criteria: the priority of the program for the local community and its budget efficiency.

The article discusses some issues of the liberazation of cross-border trade flows and the affect of its customs administration, including customs control, on this process.

The article is devoted to influence of trends in the global economy and the system of international economic relations in the international labor movement and changing approaches to its analysis in the historical development of society by the example of contemporary concepts of international labor migration.

The article reviews research on the imperial system in terms of sociology of the state in the previous decade. The author considers the best-known works and visions Michael Hardt, Amitai Etzioni, Bertrand Badie, Alexander Motyl, Dominic Lieven etc. Comparing these and other researchers by showing their specificity, the author makes a conclusion about the progressive development of the theory of imperiology.

The actuality of the politological research of local government in modern Russia is grounded in the article, and also basic problems and causes of contradictions, that appear alongside with the process of institutionalization of the local self-government bodies in Russia are analyzed.

Article is devoted to the consideration of such an anti-corruption mechanism in the system of state service as settlement of conflict of interests. The author reveals the theoretical aspects of this concept, its essence, brings about a number of possible situations in ownership, which in turn can lead to a conflict of interests. Special attention is paid to commissions on the observance of the requirements of professional conduct and resolution of conflicts of interests: to their structure, requirements to independent experts, working order and the existing difficulties in carrying out their functions.

The article focuses on two theoretical and methodological foundations in the study of the image of Russian women-parliamentarians: theories of political communication and postmodernism. According to the author, the above-mentioned theories are the key basis of methodological approaches in studies, devoted to the creation of the political image of women-parlamentarians.

The strategy of national state policy of the Russian Federation for the period up to 2025 involves the formation of a political (civil) nation, while maintaining the diversity of the nation's ethnic and religious belonging of the population. However, the construction of national identity in Muslim regions takes place in the conditions of radical struggle in which ethnic and religious identities compete with each other as discursive constructs for group identity of the community and its constituent individuals. And this seriously removes the prospects for successful implementation of the nation-building project in the country.

The maintainance of human rights is considered as a determinant identifying effectiveness of the activity of the state government bodies, connected with the concept of human rights by various forms of functional, statistical, causal and other ties. The classification of human rights determines the structure, the measure and the degree of the interrelationship of human rights as a social institution, and the public administration.

The main idea of the article is the disclosure of the idea of economic man in the writings of David Harvey. This paper deals with the basic understanding of people and their behavior in the information society. The main attention is paid to the problem of freedom of individual behavior in a "knowledge economy." The issues of the expansion of freedom in the process of consumption, labor and entrepreneurship under the influence of neo-capitalism, which has become the main ideological concept of the modern economy are raised.

While mastering digital multimedia environment, mass media begins forming both organizationally and structurally in terms of implantation of new managerial methods. The author tries to comprehend the increasing role of informational elite, its functions, and also the creative nature of constructive approaches to making up a media product, based on “multivariability” and diversity of nonlinear processes of acceleration and renovation of informational flows, exposed to integration and synergetic influence.

The article considers the essence, origin, signs of corruption, while threats and problems of functioning of corruption in contemporary Russian practice are identified. The author proved the necessity of regulation of processes of corruption, legislative restrictions, prevention of possible threats of corruption in Russian society.

The article deals with the political analysis of A.S. Panarin's political scientific work, reveals its social and political foundation and humanitarian trend, studies his political views and singles out the degree of influence of his ideas on the modern political science and practice. The main social and political issue traced through all his scientific life is the problem of choosing the way of Russian development.

The article examines methodological aspects of studying of national-state identity in modern politology, analyzes new tendencies in identity researches, that resulted in forming a particular diversity of macropolitical approach or “global consrtuctivism”. Within the framework of the given scientific direction the problem of national-state identity is considered in the context of correlation of the last one with the phenomenon of informational service civilization, with the processes of political, informational and social-cultural globalization at the beginning of XXI century.

The article presents methodological tools and results of the community study of the degree of inclusion of "service "and "profession " categories (concepts) in personal and conceptual field of public and municipal officials. The understanding of the content of professionalisation as a social phenomenon, and the sociological interpretation of "symbol" served as a theoretical basis for the sociological study. The survey of respondents was carried out according to the method (test) of "appraesentatio " relations -TSA (Transsymbolic analysis). The survey involved 602 respondents. The results of the study reveal the content of social and professional solidarity of the respondents to the "service" and "profession" categories (concepts). The findings and conclusions reflect answers to topical issues of public and municipal management and HR policy.

The article deals with the problems related to the concept content of the efficiency of public administration in the context of authoritative mission of the state. The scientific researches of this problem suggest considering of this issue through the prism of different types of "authoritative mission", named as "cratic models". The current model of public administration in the context of authoritative mission of the state does not handle the civilizational peculiarities and historical experience of Russia in the formation of relations between the state and society, the authorities and citizens to the sufficient extent.

This article is devoted to complex and challenging research of key issues in the field of language policy of the national territorial entities of the Russian Federation. The article reveals the spectrum of problems facing the Russian state in the field of language policy in the national regions, focusing on the contradictions that exist in the policies of regional authorities in the field of ethno-linguistic interaction.

The article deals with the institutionalization processes of public personnel policy in different historical periods. It studies the stages of its formation in Russia from its beginning to the present time.

The article deals with the problems of economic security in the region, the conditions necessary for its maintenance, covers the main areas of regional economic policy, effective tools for management of economic security of the region are offered.

In the framework of the present article the author analyzes the results of anti-monopoly control over the bodies of state power of subjects of the Russian Federation, on the basis of which proposals are being made to improve the legislation of antitrust policy.

This article presents a summary of illicit trafficking and drug production in the South of Russia, estimates principal risks and security threats caused by this phenomenon.

This article deals with the problem of theoretical systematization of social and political conception of Shakhnazarov in the post Soviet period of his creative work, that was the most profound but at the same time the most dramatic one.

In the present article in the limits of research of the problem of socially-cultural aspect of the processes of modernization in post-Soviet Russia the analysis of the actors of reform processes is carried out at the regional level.

The ruling party us for quite a long time being at power are vanguard of civil society, and primary political institution of the state. Opposition political parties that represent the interests of the part of citizens, serve as intermediaries between the state and civil society. In Russia it is the Communist Party, the Liberal Democratic Party and the "Just Russia ", as well as extra-systemic opposition. The article describes an example of the party "Fair Russia ", which is currently seeking to become the vanguard civil society, system opposition in Russia.

The article analyzes the scope of Russian Internet, showing the role played by "alternative" media in the development of a new information age. Provided the structure of the Russian-language blogosphere. Reveals the propagation factor of social networks in Russia and expand their audiences. The article also focus on the growing influence of the "alternative" media on social processes. It is shown that represent the social groups in the Internet space.