Vol. 1 No. 2 (2019)

The article examines the specifics of the results of expert discussion of problems of local government under global challenges of modern Russia. The article was prepared on the basis of empirical information of interregional sociological research. Conclusions based on the recommendations of expert opinions were stated during scientific conference with international participation held in April, 2019 in South-Russia Institute of Management branch of Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration.

At present, the formation of a system for monitoring the structural development of the regional economy is the most important factor in the functioning of the regions, since this system is one of the effective ways to identify and respond to problems arising in various aspects of management at the regional and municipal levels. The aim of the work is to form a monitoring system for the structural development of the regional economy. The article describes the concept of monitoring the regional economy, identifies its main functions, principles and characteristics, shows the main stages associated with the development of a conceptual model for monitoring the structural development of the regional economy. A system of monitoring indicators was formed in accordance with the types of management of structural regional economies, which made it possible to identify the main approaches of socio-economic monitoring and to conduct a comparative description of indicators of monitoring structural development of the economy in the updated strategies of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation.

The innovative development of Russian regions, assessed as ineffective, is determined by many factors that determine the many positions regarding the options and prospects for the innovation trajectory of Russia and its regions. These options indicate a further inertial trajectory as the most likely in the trajectory of the innovation strategy of the Russian regions, however. In most cases, the negative scenario of the development of Russian society is associated with it, and the search for ways and prospects for the implementation of other scenarios that can lead the country's regions to a truly innovative development strategy implies a more efficient application of the scenario approach in the practice of regional management.

In the article the need to expand of interregional foreign trade cooperation for the regions are discussed. The directions of interregional foreign economic interaction intensification are proposed, based on the law, regulatory improving and using the potential of business support institutions as the Russian chambers of commerce and industry.

The article proposed the author's approach to the identification and evaluation by public authorities of the prerequisites for the formation of clusters in the region. The approach is based on the calculation of two indicators: a settlement rating, which the region occupies, among other regions of the Russian Federation, which are the main producers of products of this industry; relative increase in production of a particular industrial sector. The calculated indicators determine parameters that are different in nature, at the same time their parallel application gives the author’s approach an integral character and increases the adequacy of the results to the realities. The proposed approach was tested on the example of the Volgograd region. It is revealed that the metallurgical, construction and agricultural sectors are a promising direction for the cluster development of the economy of the Volgograd region. The conclusions obtained from the analysis of the prerequisites for the formation of industrial clusters in the Volgograd region are confirmed by the priority areas of investment development in the region.

The paper discusses the main problems and areas of improvement of the transport and logistics infrastructure of Moscow, in order to improve the economic security of the region and the growth of its socio-economic development. The aim of the study was to identify the level of development of the transport and logistics system of the city of Moscow and determine the direction of the formation of new transport routes, providing comfortable movement of citizens in the directions they need. To achieve this goal, it was necessary to conduct a sociological survey in order to identify problem areas in the urban transport and logistics infrastructure. After identifying the problems, a project was proposed aimed at improving the efficiency and effectiveness of improving the transport and logistics infrastructure in Moscow.

When developing a regional development strategy, specific resources are needed, which can be represented by a mental map containing elements of such subsystems as human, informational, temporal, material and financial resources, which makes it possible to comprehensively see the needs of the strategy development process in its entirety and at the preparatory stage for strategic planning procedures appropriate security.

The article is devoted to the actual problem of analysis the managerial decisions and forecasting of innovative development of human capital as a leading factor of long-term economic growth of the Russian Federation in the market. Contradictory points of view on the understanding of the essence and importance of human capital in optimizing the economic development of the country are revealed. The resulting forecast convinces of the need for active state regulation of macroeconomic development of the country with an emphasis on the innovative development of human capital as the basis of productivity growth and quality of labor. The macromodel of innovative development of human capital on the basis of the Solow production function with the use of innovative labor-saving technologies is considered. Specific proposals for improving the proposed macromodel are formulated.

The aim of the study is to reveal the potential of the development of GR-management, taking into account the expansion of digitalization processes. The importance of GR-technologies is determined by the need to disclose potential business opportunities that are important for the development of territories in the conditions of digitalization. Their transformation is today closely interconnected with the introduction of new electronic-digital equipment and technologies into all spheres of life. The article presents the classification signs of the directions of development of GR-technologies in spatial digitalization. A special place in the GR-technologies is occupied by the issues of business support in terms of the application of the latest digital technologies, therefore the authors determined the structure of the GR-management for the development of markets and branches of the territorial and national economy.

In the article the importance and necessity of innovative management of special knowledge of the personnel by heads of the innovative organization is designated. The experience of LLC "KZ "Rostselmash" on the reconstruction of industrial science in order to constantly update the intelligence of the organization in the context of the skills of its leaders not only to motivate staff, but also to attract management based on scientific methods.

The authors of the article raise the question of graduates’ employment and expose the problems they meet when searching for job. The article demonstrates that some factors such as high level of competition, absence of professional experience, saturation of the market with the specialists of the same qualifications can interfere with forecasted employment and carrier promotion. The problem of social adaptation is also touched upon. The authors suggest the ways of solving the problems, using the competence approach which enables to demonstrate the qualities of the most importance to the employer. Social and professional competences of the graduates are considered to be the most important conditions for the future employment.

This article proves the expedience of marketing and logistics integration processes for the most complete disclosure of their macroand microeconomic potential. The actual and statistic data, which directly and indirectly confirm the economic prospects of the given approach at the regional, state and global levels is presented in the article. In particular, a significant investment and, consequently, socio-economic potential of the managed development of marketing and logistics infrastructure is noted. The problem`s solution of management integration , marketing and logistics in production and economic activity is visualized. The spheres of interaction, or interface, of the named objects are considered. The unconditional theoretical and applied value of researches, conducted in this direction, is shown.

The study is aimed at studying the factors that reduce the motivation of public civil and municipal employees to serve. Scientists are given a mixed assessment of the factors affecting the motivation of officials. On the basis of the analysis of the motivations estimated among civil servants as having negative influence, the most significant influencing fixing of officials on service and motivation of activity are defined. The study of motivation on the basis of the Executive authorities of the Kurgan region in 2018 revealed the leading demotivating factors, and also showed the significant importance of increasing the intensity of labor and the associated factor of constant growth of fatigue as a subjective factor affecting the performance and desire to continue service.

In order to ensure the economic security of the state, the author proposes a conceptual analysis of economic schools offering various options for tax policy. Theoretical approaches are considered, the current fiscal policy of the Russian Federation is analyzed. The author reveals the necessity of activation of stimulating measures and redistributive functions of taxes.

In the present study, the objective necessity of using a cluster approach to the development of scientific and educational sphere of the economic health system is determined. The features are considered and the analysis of social and economic interrelations of scientific and educational innovative medical cluster on the basis of the developed model of its structure is carried out, the basic characteristics of the cluster are defined. The analysis of the features of the synergetic effect of the aggregate structure of the cluster allowed to identify new qualitative characteristics of the scientific and educational process in the medical cluster system and to justify as a generalizing result of the synergetic effect of the basic structures of the cluster high potential for improving medical, social and economic efficiency of health care.

In article one of the largest manufacturing enterprises LLC KZ «Rostselmash» is considered. In the conditions of sanctions, the enterprise shows successful financial performance and considerable expansion of production. It is explained by rich history as the enterprises leaders of combine harvester construction, active support from the government, competent management, existence of considerable resources (labor, production), the correct marketing strategy that allows the enterprise to come to the world leading positions. In plans of the enterprise to head for globalization, increase in partner network, expansion of the outputs, improvement of the quality conforming to the international standards.

In the article the author analyzes the process of neo-industrialization that takes place in the Russian economy from the standpoint of context analysis. In addition to the existing research on the implementation of the modernization of modern economic mechanisms in a digital economy, the emphasis is placed on the need to identify the substantive aspect of the used economic category "neoindustrialization" not only from the standpoint of analyzing ongoing technological innovations, but also from the point of view of its comprehensive analysis, which implies the change of economic thinking paradigms and the change of the functional role of a person in this system. The author proceeds from the hypothesis that implies the formation of the goal-setting of economic policy by means of institutional design, based on the context modelling of the system of institutions that implement economic, including industrial policy.

General equilibrium models with overlapping generations is a traditional tool for the quantitative analysis of the effects of economic policies and demographic changes. In the first works devoted to general equilibrium models, altruistic relations linked generations of agents. Further, however, the presence of altruism in models lost its relevance. In 1979 A. Auerbach and L. Kotlikoff proposed multidimensional models with overlapping generations and rational expectations, which would later acquire tremendous practical significance as a tool for analyzing fiscal policy and demography issues. The first versions of such models suggested inelastic labor supply and a simple mechanism describing the dynamics of demography. The more flexible versions of the models took into account the elasticity of labor supply and demographic changes; the dependence of fertility and mortality on age and time and the uncertainty of the life period of agents; tradable and non-tradable products in different countries. Later authors included also such factors as land, income, uncertainty, political economy, liquidity, social security financing, and the economy’s relationship with climate. This article reviews the evolution of general economic equilibrium models from 1957 to the present. This review is of great value as a starting point for the perspective development of a model with overlapping generations and exhaustible energy sources (oil, gas and coal), which are the main emitters of greenhouse gases when used as an energy source in production. This model also takes into account the uncertainty due to the inaccuracy of the parameters of climate sensitivity to greenhouse gas emissions and economic activity to climate change.

The national pension system has been in the process of reforming for two decades. However, the measures taken have not solved two main problems: improving the living standards of pensioners and achieving financial stability of the pension system. This article discusses the current issues of functioning of the pension system of Russia in modern conditions, the prospects of introducing a system of individual pension capital, analyzes its shortcomings and advantages.

The article assessed the state and structure of the housing stock of the Russian Federation, analyzed the main parameters of the housing conditions of the population, and the existing ways to improve. The necessity of improving the state policy in this area is shown, the actual content of the strategic approach to solving the problem of improving the quality of housing for citizens is determined.

This article highlights the problems of rational use of resources at all levels of the Russian economy in connection with the need to increase the production of domestic goods and import substitution policy. Among the set of existing problems in the framework of improving the sustainability of production, socio-economic environmental systems, an important direction of economic activity is to address the issues of effective management of material and raw material potential, as well as the optimization and modernization of technical and technological equipment of enterprises and the rational use of secondary waste. In Nowadays environmental resource problems are of extraordinary character, the determination of which requires an integrated approach based on the construction of a new multi-level model of resource management.

The financial services market of the EAEU countries includes three main areas: banking, insurance and securities market services. Their development is associated with the strengthening of the financial markets of the EAEU member countries and the deployment of business activities within the EAEU. The lack of resources, in particular investment and financial, of the EAEU members has become a limiting factor for achieving stable economic growth. Financial markets of the countries are not capable to provide affordable financing for the real sector of the economy, which naturally has a negative impact on the opportunities for their advanced growth and development and determines the increasing dependence on foreign sources of financing. The article argues the hypothesis of improving the policy of development of financial markets of the EAEU member countries.

This article is devoted to the consideration of foreign practice of application of transport taxation. The relevance of this issue is associated with the growing level of motorization in the world, and as a result, with the growth of objects of taxation and an increase in the number of taxpayers.

In modern economy relevant questions of identification of new factors of growth are and also search of the mechanism of the solution of social problems is. In this regard to the forefront there is a digitalization process research, influencing stimulation of economic growth and its opportunities for achievement of various social purposes, including in labor market. At justification of the strategic choice in economic policy it is necessary to consider that digitalization becomes the main priority direction of development of production and driving force of sustainable development. Development of digital economy in all sectors and levels of production allows to receive considerable economic benefits, including increase in productivity of work, as in the state, and private sectors of social production. The digital transformation of economy based on use of the latest technologies provides not only creation of new jobs, but also achievement of higher level of the relations between subjects of economy due to formation of new standards of their social behavior.

The research is devoted to a current problem of prevention of involvement of youth in extremist activity. Special attention is paid to a student's youth stratum where for opposition to the destructive phenomenon of extremism use of the effective instrument of involvement of young people to research activity is possible.

The article is devoted to the study of current problems associated with the consideration of modern features and characteristics of the state diaspora policy of the Russian Federation. Special attention is paid to the implementation of the policy of support for diasporas within the country and abroad. Methods and tools for the protection of the Russian ethnos in the context of political and power pressure through foreign diasporas on Russia are also considered. Special emphasis is placed on political and economic assistance to diasporas abroad, which allows them to actively lobby for national interests. Also considered are tools to support the Russian language in the countries of residence of the national diaspora and the intensification of the actions of the Russian government towards simplifying the acquisition of Russian citizenship.

The article discusses the main ideas about the essence of the phenomenon of globalization on the part of scientific communities, conventionally designated as “pessimistic researchers”, “optimistic researchers” and “realists”. The main problem of the phenomenon of globalization is considered contradiction. It notes the role in understanding and overcoming the global contradictions of the special sphere of interdisciplinary knowledge about the integrity of the world and global processes globalistics and its ability to offer alternative globalization models, within the framework of which there will be a change in the fundamental attitudes of the organization of social life at the level of mass social existence.

The article presents an attempt to understand the significance of the development of the cultural and value foundations of the political elite in order to ensure national security in key areas of state activity. The author analyzes the current negative trends that have a profound impact on the formation of the cultural and civilizational identity of representatives of the political elite. Within the framework of the article, an analysis of the scientific research of leading scientists involved in the formation of cultural and value content of training and the personal and professional development of managers has been carried out. The author comes to the conclusion that it is advisable to rethink the substantial content of management training and the development of a fundamentally new toolkit of content-technological support of elitogenesis in order to develop sovereign and strengthen the national security of Russia.

The article analyzes the political aspects of combating the penetration of organized crime into the power structures at various levels, examines the nature and characteristics of hybrid technologies, assesses the possibility of a negative impact on political decision-making. The author proposes certain measures to optimize the state policy in order to counter these challenges and threats, in order to ensure the national security of Russia.

This article is devoted to the problem of the relationship between tradition and innovation in the social practices of young people living in the Rostov region. Based on the results of the applied sociological research, the author analyzes the traditional and personal attitudes implemented in the social behavior of young people in the context of legal, family-marriage, intergenerational interaction. In this work, special emphasis is placed on the positive side of social experience, conditioned by the ethnocultural tradition, in the context of the modernization of Russian society.

This article provides a sociological analysis of interpersonal and institutional trust as an indicator of the social health of Russian student youth. From the point of view of the socio-centric approach, the social health of young people is viewed as a phenomenon forming at the interface between the individual and society, and reflecting the specifics of their interaction and interaction. The author concludes that for the normal integration of students and the development of their social health it is necessary to have trust between the youth and society.

This article substantiates the relevance of the study of the mechanisms of regulation of socio-political behavior of modern man. As a methodological tool of the study, a conceptual model of socio-political habitus as a mental structure, including a set of practical schemes of interpretation, evaluation and action of the social actor, which are updated in situations related to power, is proposed. The author emphasizes the hierarchy of habitus and considers the possibility of the existence of a national invariant in the structure of habitus, which can serve as the basis for the integration of society. Such an invariant habitual complex is proposed to be denoted by the term "national core of habitus".

Social responsibility is presented as a necessary and unconditional phenomenon of society, due to the dynamics of the historical development of mankind, civilizational breakthroughs, the development of societies, the formation of new ideas about society's goals and needs: social responsibility of organizations, enterprises, social and economic institutions, individual and his personal social responsibility as the highest side of his life and search for his "I" in harmony with others. The main theoretical aspects of a new model of social responsibility in the trinity of man, organization and society are presented. The integral role of education in the formation of the social responsibility of the individual is substantiated.

This article is devoted to the problems of organizing sports-mass and sports and recreational work among students. Such work needs to be built in the following areas: preventive, corrective, educational, socializing, developing. Conducting sports and recreational activities and the development of university sports contributes to the preparation of highly qualified specialists and preserve the integrity of the mass sports and sports movement. Formation of a healthy lifestyle becomes an important direction of youth policy in the field of physical culture and sports.

This article discusses important issues on modern Internet technologies as a means of managing the process of media socialization of young people. The main directions of using Internet technologies in the practice of managing the process of media socialization of young people in the article are the following seven areas: social and pedagogical development of the leisure space of the Internet, design of cyberspace, management of multimedia streams, management of media culture, development of the information component of the Internet space, game management , preventive measures.

The summary in the submitted article is updated the problem of regional identity perceived by the Russian youth as a sociocultural marker of belonging to regional community, a position of regional patriotism and involvement into regional public activity. The author of article believes that in a present situation the regional identity of the Russian youth undergoes the changes connected, first, with its status of symbolical consolidation, secondly, with growth of readiness of youth to realize various political actions in regional community. According to the author of article, youth extremism "assimilates" regional identity through the strategy of a mimicry or accession to the mass actions caused by the crisis phenomena in regional social and economic life. Relevant, the conclusion is drawn, the request for the public youth policy of the "achievable" projects corresponding to youth potential in Russian regions, and offering new opportunities for self-realization is.

The article reveals the basic methodological guidance, vectors of development of psycho-pedagogical education and modern anthropic practices and acme technologies of professional and personal development of subjects of education. It shows the effectiveness of the use of coaching technology to develop the students’ skills of self-expression and professional competencies.

Solidarity between daghestanian nations is researched in the article as well as factors of intolerance. Based on the sociological data it was found out that there are factors of intolerance in Daghestan and the main one is social inequality. There is increasing of poor people in Daghestan. There are also social problems, unemployment, inefficiency of local authority, corruption, destructive activity of ethnic leaders, weakness of cultural communication between nations, loss of international growth principals, interreligious clashes and religious extremism and no trust in government. Empirical data point out that there are traditions of peace coexistence of nations and confessions in Daghestan, international and personal communications, tolerance between nations, positive contacts. So any conflict is to solve with peace means in Daghestan and no violence is allowed.

The article presents the results of a study conducted to assess the amount of financial support provided in the Orel region socially oriented non-profit organizations, including organizations engaged in volunteer activities. A theoretical review of the main provisions of the volunteer management strategy in the Russian Federation. The study allowed to identify and characterize the forms of support provided to socially oriented non-profit organizations by public authorities of the Orel region. Based on the data of the Register of socially oriented non-profit organizations of the Orel region-recipients of support of the Governor's Office and the government of the Orel region, the author reveals the amount of subsidies received by socially oriented non-profit organizations from the budget of the Orel region for 2012-2018.

Author investigates the problem of territorial public self-government in the field of social engineering, defines the approach to realization of measures to transform the territorial public self-government, considers the interaction of social scientists, local governments and citizenry.

The article discusses the features of state financial control in the Russian Federation at the present stage. The analysis of statistics of financial offenses over the past 6 years is carried out, the problem of improving the efficiency of the state control system over the expenditure of financial resources is highlighted, the ways of solving them are determined to determine promising areas for improving financial control in Russia. The article was prepared on the basis of the empirical information of the Report on the work of the Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation and the data of the analytical review “RBC” and “Newspaper Kommersant”.

This article is devoted to one of the important problems of our time migration. It is noted that migration processes carry with them both positive and negative consequences. It is difficult to say exactly which among them prevail. The author analyzes the data of official statistics. The conclusion is made about the intermittent, uneven nature of the development of migration in Russia in the post-Soviet period. The analysis shows that a clearly defined tendency of prevalence of urbanized nature of migration is recorded. The main stages of migration processes are considered, their characteristic features are highlighted. It is noted that at the present, the current stage, migration remains a problem area, it contributes to the development of risks in an urbanized environment. However, positive trends that also arise from the development of migration processes should not be leveled.

In article the main characteristics, functions of mass media, Internet environments presented by various authors, group of authors and research schools are considered. Various processes and regularities influencing marginalization of youth in modern Russia come to light. Influence of mass media on marginalization of youth as the modern period of development of Russian society is considered. Results of an author's sociological research are generalized.

This report provides an overview of the level of political competition in the Rostov region. The aim of the work is to analyze how political competition in the representative branches of Russian regions affects the dynamics of political competition in the Rostov region. To achieve this goal the author will analyze the specifics of the major regions of the Russian Federation, and the elections to the Legislative Assembly of the Rostov region in the period 2008 2018. The article will focus on the relationship between the results of political parties in a single electoral district and the final distribution of Deputy Portfolios in the representative body of the Federation. Due to the fact that this indicator should be measured exclusively by quantitative tools, there will be used the mathematical method of the American political scientist Masao Nagayama. Based on the statistical material, we’ll be able to track not only the level of political competition, but also the trends that will determine the vector of development of regional Institute of parliamentarism in the near future.

The article reveals and justifies the main directions and mechanisms of the "green" industrial policy implementation process as a way of transition to sustainable development in the modern world, in general, and in the Russian Federation, in particular. Peculiar forms and instruments of "green" industrial policies in both developed and developing countries are examined. Possible ways of "green" development of the Russian Federation for the purpose of transition to a bilateral model of growth, which will allow the country to show steady economic growth with minimum impact on the environment, are established. The main criteria and indicators of the "green" industrial policy efficiency in different countries are distinguished, and an assessment of the efficiency of corresponding normative documents implementation at the level of national economies is given.