Vol. 1 No. 2 (2014)

The article discusses factors contributing the formation of a new multidisciplinary scientific approach cognitive science and its applied fields as cognitive analytics in basic types of modern activity (political, economic, social and cultural, scientific). Author analyses the characteristics and examples of cognitive analytics use in the system of social and humanitarian knowledge and management.

The article is devoted to a problem of international educational ratings implementation in modern higher school management system. At first authors study and analyze conceptual approaches to planning of innovative development of educational establishments, show special role of informal management methods in implementation of program-goal method of modernization of Russian system of higher education. The second part of the article is devoted to study of international educational ratings as instrument of matrix modeling and multiranging.

This paper attempts to evaluate the innovative and technological potential of the Russian economy, to develop indicators and approaches to the diagnosis of the true potential of Russia, without claiming their infallibility non-alternativity. The principles of innovation and technological potential of the Russian economy are considered. It is noted that the biggest challenge that requires active government behavior is the national competitiveness, as an integrated feature of the whole economic system. Under post-industrial transformation the core of effective economic development and modernization of the Russian industry, that is national competitiveness, should be clusters of enterprises.

The article argues place and role of industry as an important subsystem of material production. Industrial sector with its wide network of horizontal and vertical cooperation links creates monolith economic field, pushes into economy turnover different territories, strengthens national relations. By the development of science-based and high-technology industrial branches Russia marks step-by-step leaving of raw material-based model of development, increases its demand of research and technological achievements, gets opportunity to have not only environmental but intellectual rent.

Authors investigate the problem of public service in the field of social engineering, give the basic approaches to implementation of measures to transform the public service: projective, technologies and consulting, analyze the issues of introducing new personnel technology, considers the interaction of sociologists and government officials.

The paper formulates the contradictions in the management of modern system of public services. Peculiarities of strengthening public management system of public services in the framework of development of legislation on state and municipal services. Proposed measures to address the identified conflicts and improving the system of public services.

The article is devoted to innovative business aspects in Russian economy for successful creation of new economy on the basis of innovative development of regions and industrial branches.

One of the features of enterprise operation in modern environment is its functioning under uncertainty and ongoing changes. Two factors: the creation and development of the mechanisms of organizational management under changes and created on its basis organizational structure of an enterprise, make it possible to keep permanently high efficient performance.

This article examines strategic management of the modernization of public administration in Russia based on the methodology of project management. Describes the benefits of project management applied to the management of innovation in public administration. Briefly outlined the legal framework of strategic planning and classification of documents of the state of strategic planning in the Russian Federation. Concludes that the project management gives tool which allows you to achieve the strategic objectives for the modernization of public administration the most effective way.

The article is devoted to the development of the methodological and theoretical principles for creation of modeling tools for decision support system solutions for the management of inter-budget regulation. On the basis of methodology of system approach the task of making decisions on share distribution of taxes between the levels of budgetary system. There is a complex of economic-mathematical models for assessment of the decisions that have the property of adaptation to changes in the external environment. The developed architecture of the modeling tools within the system of support of acceptance of decisions.

The article describes the basic concepts of lean manufacturing. The experience implementing lean manufacturing tools in the executive bodies of state and municipal government, the reasons of their low efficiency. Identified losses inherent in many different levels of government do not add value for the customer (service recipient). In this regard, the author substantiate the need for extracting in government technology management the concept of «lean production», which will eradicate all kinds of thread losses as well as reduce the costs and improve the quality of public services.

The article discusses Customs and Tax agencies’ electronic workflow, including advance electronic notifications and electronic declaration of goods, as a part of international economic activity administration.

In the article the directions of enhancement of management of water use of Russia are revealed, the organizational-economic component of this process is considered, three possible approaches to water resources management enhancement are offered.

The modern world is the world of an aggravation of the international economic competition getting in a century of understanding resource and ecological "growth limits" more and more distinct lines of geoeconomic opposition if not to tell more. In these conditions under doubt social and economic stability even the largest world leaders is put. Geoeconomic, and together with it and geopolitical opposition doesn't disappear. It passes everything from intercountry level to level of fight of macroregions more distinctly.

In the changing modern conditions there is a need for the development of a new economic paradigm of economic development as the basis of economic security, as the current liberal model of economic policy practically stalled. In order to prevent a fall in the country in the area of risk, requires a radical reorientation of development, identification and selection of the new subject of development, which should become private capital. The main attention reforms at this stage of the Russian should be focused on the microeconomic changes related with competitiveness, support business investment, innovation policy, personnel training and retraining.

The author's view on the first months of implementation of the contract system in the Russian Federation, and systematized groups of problems: institutional, organizational and competence of the nature of and problems related to the stages of procurement. Recommendations and proposals on the creation of favorable organizational fields on introduction of the contract system in Russia and regions.

In the article outlines the key issues for evaluating progress economic activity associated with the replacement of Russian statistical standards SNA-1993 on standards SNA-2008. The study showed that the proposed new standard 2008 SNA does not solve the main problems of statistical evaluation in the form of a non-equilibrium state of the economy, as well as does not create the conditions for the organization of a unified system of product evaluation at all levels of management: municipal, regional and federal.

The article considers the practice of antitrust regulation in the Russian economy and the prospects for efficiency improving of instruments of antitrust regulation.

The need to develop of new model of local government with effective and sufficient sources of formation of local budgets with active participation of local community are proved in the article. The authors believe that the citizen self-taxation funds have to become in the long term an effective institutional and infrastructure element of local government, and partnership, trust and an initiative of local community in the solution of questions of local value a basis of competition and efficiency of municipalities in Russia.

In this article we investigate approaches to the analysis of structural dynamic stability assessment of regional monopoly, considered effective evaluation criteria for sustainable economic development. The necessity of an indicator that takes into account changes in the system over time, to assess the sustainability of economic systems.

The success of the economic development of the modern region of Russian Federation due to its investment image, the question of the formation of what should be subject to managerial influence at different levels of governance and the progressive implementation of the communication strategy developed are discussed in this article.

The article deals with the most important Russian social and political concepts on the theory of empires. By analyzing more than twenty years the debate on the subject of imperial systems, and the reasons for their breakup. The author is widely quoted by a variety of sources from academic researchers to contemporary writers. Theory empires regarded as a functional point of view, and from the state and legal.

The article is devoted to the main task of political reform creation of efficient local self-government. Main criteria of efficiency are underlined. Policy-legal analysis of laws on new institute of efficiency assessment is held and mechanism of its development is offered.

Article is devoted to a problem of development of political regionalistics. Special attention is paid to studies of regional political and administrative complex.

The article is devoted to the problem of tolerance as a moral and spiritual category reflecting actual need of the modern multicultural society. The authors note that trying to find the sense of tolerance in the categories of lenience, indifference, indulgence that are widely presented in the scientific discourse, does not touch the ground of the modern sociocultural situation and its translation as «patience» does not reflect the content of the present concept. Tolerance is interpreted by the authors not as passive unnatural submission to opinions, views, faith of others, it is more exactly an active moral position for the positive interaction with people of other culture, other national and confessional surroundings consisting in respect and acceptance of equality with others and refusal to dominance and violence. It is noted that consolidation and safeguarding of Russian society with all its variety depends to a large extend on the formation of positive tolerance.

The article is devoted to moral bases of business communication. The significance of positive moral directions and following ethical norms for increasing of communicative efficiency is emphasized. The article deals with the questions, connected with the problems of moral choice and settling a moral conflict in business sphere. Special attention is attached to ethics of oral and written speech behavior of businessmen.

The article considers the issues of education of patriotism in terms of concrete examples of vital activity of representatives of the military and creative intelligentsia of the Rostov region.

The article describes best practice of Gaidar club in URIU RANEPA as a center of creation and implementation intellectual youth potential, place for discussions on actual problems of economic, political and social development of Russia, elaboration of public speaking skills and young researchers and students participation in discussions.

The article argues the role of labor potential of business innovative sphere in maintenance of technological improvement in development of the Russian economy. Problems of developing of innovative acceptability of labor potential as important component of modern economic thinking are analyzed.

The article describes the equitable forms of cooperation and discussed possible Public Private Partnership forms. Managerial approach and decentralization of management are possible only in conditions of equal rights in government, business and society partnership.

The review of reports and speeches, made at the international scientific-practical conference "Socio-political aspects of demographic processes in modern Russia", held on 7-8 April 2014 on the basis of the South-Russian Institute of management of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration.

This article analyzes the concept of «nation», as well as a number of related concepts, in the program documents of the «party of power» as the phenomenon of «Russian power» in post-Soviet Russia.

This article explores how terrorist groups exploit religious identity in order to attract more followers and to achieve their political goals. Researchers agree that political extremism and terrorism have become more religious. The importance of the ideological component in counterterrorism has been emphasized in several legislative bills adopted by Russian Federation. Using data collected in empirical study of 117 terrorist groups from Iraq, Afghanistan, and North Caucasus this paper provides a comprehensive analysis of the main mechanisms of manipulation with religious identity by terrorists in order to achieve their political goals.

The main components of social system are considered in the article, the presence of organizing and controlling, as interdependent directions of social system activity is shown. Then author points out distinctive role of information in social system management. The ways of social systems informational interaction, basing on distributed information processing platform, is also proposed.

This article discusses the specifics of improving the tax policy in the Russian Federation. The author focuses on the importance of tax policy reforms such as increase in excise duties on alcohol and tobacco products, reducing the tax burden of innovative enterprises, the development of economic zones in the Far East and Siberian federal districts. Emphasizes the importance of introducing progressive taxation of income of individuals, causing much discussion in the scientific and political world country.

Development of Internet technologies entailed inevitable development of new forms of social and political communications. The most effective forms of political communication now is the Internet sites, which are the open area for political debates. Personal political ideas have opportunity to be sounded not only in all hyper space, but also in Internet blogs.