Abstract
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Undoubtedly, corruption is one of the most serious diseases of Russian society. It is not by chance that, according to the indicators of international ratings, the country is in their lower (worst) estimated cluster. At the same time, it is impossible not to note positive changes: the existence of a relevant law in the country, the growing openness of the Governments (of different levels) within the sites, where among the obligatory portals information about cases of corruption is expected. In all regions (subjects of the federation), anti-corruption commissions have been created. They are designed not only to identify and punish corrupt officials, but also to propagate the norms of anti-corruption behavior.
The authors of the planned publication put two goals. The first is to show the role of “assessment standards” (regimes, ratings) as an important technology of social management that predetermines the possibility of identifying and evaluating the quality of government’ activity in changing the public administration system. The second is determining the structure of standards, to identify relative successes and failures by their parameters in the Russian Federation.
Abroad, evaluative standards as a state (and not only) technology began to be developed and applied from the 90-s of the twentieth century. It was preceded by theoretical works of such authors as Zakaria, Petrick J.A., Quinn J.F and many others. There were even doubts about the possibility of implementing ethical standards in practice. A number of public and official organizations have taken on the responsibility for organizing monitoring assessments.
The Russian Federation as part of world politics was included in the orbit of assessment procedures, however, although it is impossible not to recognize the popularity of corruption topics in the scientific field of the country, assessment technologies and their justification are not enough presented. Among the remarkable publications one should name out the Report of the Public Chamber, the monitoring of the High School of economics and not more than 5-10 journal articles.
Let us name the directions proposed by researchers for evaluating anti-corruption measures: the presence of an ombudsman (ombudsman system, including regions) (1), the existence of laws (better the Code of laws) the appropriate focus (2), the development of legal institutions to improve integrity and accountability (3) and the Code the behavior of officials and managers at all levels (4), the presence in the country of a special body organizing this work (5), as well as a state auditor (6), the continuous development of administrative reform (7), the formation and development of principles of open government (8), including the transparency of information on fiscal policy (9) and public procurement (10). A summary of the situation in the Russian Federation on these criteria will be presented.
In modern conditions (the second decade of the 21st century), the anti-corruption climate in the country and the implementation of measures to form it in state institutions and commercial organizations have been recognized as an important indicator of evaluation. To this end, two monitoring sessions were conducted at St. Petersburg State University (SPSU) in 2017 and 2018. Both were based on telephone and apartment survey (respectively) of city and aria residents. This activity was carried out in accordance with the grant of SPSU the "Social technologies for the formation of an anti-corruption climate in Russian society" (Registration number АААА-А18-118032090092-7). In 2018 year 800 residents of the city and 700 of its aria were surveyed. The results are summarized and will be presented.
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