Issue 2013 no2 contents:

The reform of budget sector entities enables us to compare the impact of different types of public procurement regulations in budget and autonomous organizations in Russia. Such analysis is important in the view of a critical discussion of the effects of the current procurement regulation (94-FL) as well as taking into account the introduction of the Federal Contract System in 2014.

Using differences in the differences methodology, we consider public procurements of two national universities in 2011-2012. All procurements of the first university were regulated by the 94-FL requirements. Procurements of the second university were regulated by the 94-FL until June 2011. Later this university introduced its own Procurements Provision. Comparative analysis of the procurements of these organizations enables us to estimate the impact of different types of regulations on the efficiency of public procurement measured by the level of competition and price decline in public tenders as well as timely execution

of procurement contracts.

It is over 10 years that Russia has been applying RF Code on administrative law breaking. Codification of statutes on administrative breaches at the Federal level in the Russian Federation has become a significant achievement of the national law system. The subject of research is the sphere of the entrepreneurs’ administrative responsibility. The relevance of the topic is witnessed by numerous efforts made to optimize the state’s controlling, supervising and permitting activity in relation to entrepreneurs in order to exclude an excessive pressure on business.

Results of sociological poll of over 120 companies are used in the research. The following most urgent problems connected with bringing juridical persons and individual entrepreneurs to administrative responsibility have been revealed: difficulty with appealing against the results of administrative punishment to the higher authorities; inadequacy of the kind and severity of punishment to the degree of significance of the administrative breach; covering up  information about the results of hearing the     administrative law breaking cases by authorities; absence of uniform practices of bringing to administrative responsibility; no guaranties to reduce (mitigate) punishment, even if the lawbreakers have  pleaded guilty and have taken measures to avoid  repeating torts  in future. The article suggests a mechanism which, if implemented, will promote an annulment of harmful consequences of the committed law violations and the prevention of their committing in future. It includes proposals to increase effectiveness of bringing subjects of entrepreneurship to administrative responsibility, and, at the same time, to exclude putting pressure on business by creating a mechanism of appeal against the administrative cases judgments, by creating transparency of administrative cases hearings, and by working out the above mentioned jurisdiction in detail.

The article substantiates the necessity to elaborate a national prospective special strategy of socio-economic development of the country; it gives the definition of the term "space potential"; it explains the basic meaning of the acting model of space development management and shows possible directions of its transformation.

The article considers the complexity of the problem to realize space potential on the territory of Russia. Analysis of the problem resulted in revealing the absence of the system approach to solving it, which excludes achievement of adequacy between its integral parts and does it direct harm.

Consideration of the mechanisms of organization and management found a wide-developed corrupt cohesion of the territory and sector management, sharp regions differentiation, under-use of really existing resources by the un-resourceful subjects of the RF, which does not lead to a strategic approach of Russia’s space development but to a "subjective" one.

The article names the tendencies of locating (settling) people across the country, numbers the advantages and disadvantages   of the active model of management, considers the strategies of space development of some territories and their integration, provides a most important instrument for running their complex development.

It is shown in the article that creating a favorable socio-economic environment in the country may become the general goal of the government strategic approach to space development aimed at the largest possible use of the country’s potentials and resources, defining the main directions of its development and taking into account people’s interests and requirements of its different regions.

The article concludes with suggestions for designing the national prospective space strategy of the country development.

The authors of the article show the intermediate results of inculcating the regulating impact valuation (RIV), consider the situation with it at the Federal and regional levels, using data of the monitoring of the RIV inculcation in the subjects of the RF, which was held by an autonomous non-commercial organization "National Institute of System Researches of Entrepreneurship Problems".

The purpose of holding the monitoring of inculcating RIV into the mechanism of making decisions in the RF subjects was to study and assess the activity of the subjects in this direction. Basing on the results of the monitoring, the authors have made the rating of the RF subjects in conformity with the blocs of indices.

The research found different approaches to building up a pattern of inculcating RIV. Regions that introduced RIV before others, enjoy a centralized pattern. 2012 witnessed the start of changing to a de-centralized pattern which implies evaluating directly by its architects. As for the authorized body, it will keep the power to appraise the quality of the pattern implementation, the right to comment on the provisions of a draft act, as well as to provide these processes with methodological and organizational assistance.  A mixed pattern of holding RIV was also revealed.

Conclusions: building up a monitoring system and commitments of its architects to offer data of the monitoring targets achievements can directly promote creating an evaluation system of the effectiveness of RIV inculcation. As for the international practice in forming a quality indicators system of the RIV institution, it shows a limited number of projects to be made use of.

The article is devoted to problems and priorities of the prospective development of raw areas in Russia. It considers strategies of socio-economic development for the period of 2025 – 2030 in order to analyze the economic growth and diversification of economy of these areas in conditions when extracting raw materials is reduced. Strategic documents of socio-economic development of the raw areas were analyzed, and to single them out the indicator of the share of the gross value added in mining in the GRP structure was used as a key criterion. The analysis resulted in choosing 11 raw areas in the RF whose socio-economic development is significantly determined by the mineral complex.

Conclusions: prospects for economic development of the areas are practically completely bound with development plans of the minerals mining companies. The other conclusion, supported by the results of the analysis of the priorities for the raw areas development, is that the regional authorities view prospects of their regions development very much in versifying mining production. The national strategic planning documents state the government support for the development of the prioritized territories but without considering their regional economy peculiarities.

Recommendations: state regional policies should focus on shaping a general ideology of a long-term development of the raw areas in conformity with internal and external changing situations. RF subjects of raw materials mining specialization should rearrange the strategy format of their development by widening horizons of strategic planning, and by concentrating on the prospects of a commodity area future. It is necessary that new requirements to creating a general typology of raw areas for the purposes of regional policies alongside with a simultaneous improvement of requirements to the strategies of socio-economic development should be made up.

The article deals with the negative problems of financial policies of municipalities caused by external, rather than financial reasons. It analyses field researches held in 2009-2012 in the Republic of Dagestan, Altai  Krai, Tverskaya, Ivanovskaya, Kirovskaya, Kostramskaya, Smolenskaya oblast. They all   belong to the group of endowments. There were 21 municipalities that participated in the research:  5 city circuits, 7 municipal districts, 8 rural settlements and 1 urban settlement.

The research singled out the main non-financial reasons for ineffective management of finances at the municipal level such as: (1) peculiarities of the developed system of real relationships between the state and municipal authorities; (2) negative impact of personal features of the head of the municipality on the quality of management; (3) municipal bureaucrats lack any stimulus to increase the revenue base.

Recommendations: state bodies of power should heed the opinion and support initiatives of local authorities to increase financial security. To stimulate municipalities for increasing their own revenues, it is necessary that state programs for the promotion of more successful municipalities into regions that have no such programs should be adopted. Such programs must stimulate developing of the depressive municipalities without decreasing stimuli to develop in the successful municipalities. Besides, it necessary regions should develop cooperation and exchange positive experience in this field.

The article is devoted to the comparative analysis of public and legal management of the public–private partnership in the RF subjects.

The aim of the research is to assess effectiveness of the public and legal regulation at the regional level. Its tasks include a comparative-contrastive analysis of the norms of regional investment and budget legislation; legislation on public-private partnership; revealing methodology of assessing its projects selection and implementation effectiveness; providing information transparence. Methodology of the research is based on the system, structural, functional, comparative-contrastive analysis, on the content-analysis of information downloaded on the official websites of the RF subjects’ bodies of public administration, and its statistical summing up.

The article proved the author’s hypothesis about a declarative nature of some PPP statutes, the absence of their system interconnection with investment and budget legislation and legislation on strategic planning in regions; assessed the level of PPP information transparence in regions of Russia and offered a related index.

The article concludes giving proposals on codification (or consolidation) of investment legislation and some acts on private partnership, on making amendments in the regional PPP laws that provide a coordination mechanism of the PPP projects and documents of strategic planning of the RF subjects; it proposes providing a system interconnection of PPP projects development, budget process and strategic planning at the regional level; it also proposes including a provision on the access to information into Federal and regional legislation and additions to the RF subjects’ laws on public-private partnership.

The regulatory impact assessment is considered as an instrument for grounding the state’s optimal presence in economy and for checking the presence of any administrative barriers. The RIA was developed in response to the growing value and complexity of the state regulation. Demand for RIA as a new instrument in norm setting affected the speed of its institutionalization. It was not until 2010, that the RIA got an impulse for development in Russia, though it had been already actively used in norm setting practice by the countries of (OECD) for 30 years. While developing at the Federal level, the RIA has been "stepping down" to regions since 2012. Due to significant regional differentiation in the RF it is becoming really urgent to work out approaches to developing and forming models of the RIA institutionalization at the regional level.

Conclusions and recommendations: (1) consistency of the decentralization approach in the RIA procedure has been proved, with the function of the RIA inculcation being fixed for the developer of the act (branch department); (2) a regulatory document development scheme of the RIA institutionalization procedure is presented; (3) it is suggested that the stage of a full regulatory impact assessment should be only held in relation to meaningful  normative-legal bills; (4) the complexity of the RIA procedure, shown by the pilot project results, does not recommend using it in municipalities. It is inexpedient.

Like most public managers nowadays, local emergency managers operate within complex, uncertain environments. Rapid changes in the scope and severity of the issues increase the extent of intergovernmental collaboration necessary to address such challenges. Using a large data set of county emergency management agency directors, variations in intergovernmental collaboration reflect in fluencies from problem severity, managerial capacity, and structural factors. The results demonstrate that public managers, who perceive problems as severe, possess specific managerial skills, lead high-capacity organizations, and operate in less complex agency structures collaborate more often and more effectively across governmental boundaries.

The article considers foreign experience of policy implementation in the field of public health Nordic. It was determined that the policies in the health sector at the local level should be based not only on improving the state of health, but also on the totality of measures aimed at improving health of the population. Improving health is the most important indicator, which determines the level of socio-economic development, requires the mandatory implementation of the principle of social justice in health development. Municipal policy in the health sector should be aimed at solving problems of local communities and take into account local peculiarities. It should be designed and implemented in a close association with the regional and federal policy, and with an active participation of various organizations in public and private sectors, NGOs, municipal residents.

Based on the statement relating to the natural economic individual behavior we suggest that expenditures should be adequate to adjusted earnings. In spite of this fact we believe that some fluctuations are available because of changing in discrete individual behavior. In this research, however, we concluded and confirmed that fluctuations are not the separate cases, moreover there is the world trend concerning Russian Federation also. According to this trend the special consumption philosophy exists: the share of consumption in household spending is increasing from the East to the West, down to the consumption excess of the revenues. The economic and political background is likely to be the reason of that but the primary factor is mentality of population that settled in certain economic region, and further as the authors consider the mentality is connected with the deeper ground – the age of civilization of the territory. The younger is civilization, the greater is the extent of risk awareness, with "self-indulgence" including.