Good Governance
Regulation in the field of partition of power between the state, business and civil society within the framework of the current socio-economic processes
Request
The project is based on the request from the Government Office of the Russian Federation to elaborate further steps to be undertaken as regards development of strategic planning and optimization of the public governance structure in Russia, achieving balance and development of partnership between state, business and civil society (OPM-I02-050304-0097).
Description
In order to plan further stages of the administrative reform and measures for their implementation in Russia not only at the federal but also at the regional and local levels of power it is considered to be of principal importance to study the EU experience in the field of finding balance between the state power, business and civil society, forms of social partnership, social responsibility of business, cooperation among the first, the second and the third sectors.
There is a great interest in studying a possibility to make use the above mentioned EU experience in Russia with a view to optimize public governance in Russia, develop the administrative reform and harmonize RF-EU forms and methods of public administration.
On 14 July 2005, a seminar took place at RECEP where participants of the project discussed the following issues:
- Methodological approach to the problem of Good Governance
- Structure of the study: a functional approach or a case study approach?
- Desired outputs of the project
- Division of labor in the project and assignment of tasks
- Deadlines
It was agreed to deliver the first drafts of the chapters by 29 August. An extended workshop will take place at RECEP in early September, following which the contributions will be finalized. The report will be put together by 30 September and published by RECEP in October 2005.
The structure of the final report looks as follows:
- Introduction (Sergei Medvedev, Christer Pursiainen)
- State-Business relations (Alexei Zudin)
- State-Civil Society relations (Christer Pursiainen)
- Business-Civil Society relations (Alexander Auzan)
- The market as a universal regulator (Vitaly Tambovtsev)
- Case studies from Europe
- Administrative reform in the EU (Mark Entin)
- “Governance triangles” in Northern, Central and Southern Europe (Lilia Valitova)
- Conclusions and recommendations
- Scenarios and end state 2020 (Sergei Medvedev)
- Government strategies and recommendations, enforcement and implementation (Vitaly Tambovtsev and Alexander Auzan)
- Normative base and legal instruments (Mark Entin)
Total projected size: 105-110 pages
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