The past year was marked by the alteration of former trends and priorities following the change of the President and the Government. State policies for supporting science came to the fore while the encouragement of innovative activities and technological development lost in the frequency of its...

Innovations, science and technology, and innovation policies represent the limited range of fields where, as believed by a majority of eminent contemporary economists and analysts, it can be possible and even reasonable for the government to interfere. The only arguable aspects are, in the main,...

In this chapter we are addressing the numerous cases of government failures in countries with transit economies and weak democratic traditions when the state is called upon to provide “pure public goods” (defense, security, and justice). In other words, the subject matter of this chapter...

Small well-motivated groups, including state officials, public and community activists, politicians etc proved their capacity to impose burden on economy. The power to do so in modern Market Democracies could be reached without “unsheathing the sword”. Old fashioned redistribution experts -...

The paper analyzes the changes in the Russian institutional system in the framework of fundamental interdependence between institutional and economic development. It reviews a number of established international indicators of institutional development. These indicators are used to study the...

The article reflects the results of the expert interviews that were aimed to expose and interpret the peculiarities of the corporate culture of public servants. There are expert opinions concerning the phenomenon of the corporate culture, the factors of its formation its basic values and normes...

In recent years in the health sector changes occur in the formation of volumes of public obligations of the state and the size of their financial provision. According to the health Ministry of Russia, in 2010-2011 deficit financing at the expense of public funds was not only in 9 of 83...

Conflicts and disputes related to land occur in the North Caucasus with great regularity. This is especially true of those republics in which there live many people. These conflicts are dangerous because they relate to international relations, refers to the historical memory of the people and...

Questions of construction of industrial policy, both conceptual and practical, attracted and attract attention to themselves and experts and politicians. In the 2000s, especially after the global financial crisis and the period remaining uncertain prospects for further development, a discussion...

In 2013 in Russian Federation, on the federal level started active phase of transition to forming of federal budget on program basis. In the close perspective similar transition on the other levels is expected. But in spite of experience of program budgeting in Russia now there is no scientific...