Vol. 19 No. 2 (2017)

Objective: To carry out analysis and identify the main problems of external effectiveness of the Administration of the municipal formation on the example of the urban district of Krasnoturinsk. Methods: In the course of the research methods of questioning, statistical analysis, system analysis were used. Results: The authors analyzed the results of the survey of the population of the urban district of Krasnoturinsk, identified the main problems that have a negative impact on the mood of residents. The author's methodology allowed to reveal not only the attitude of the population towards the conditions of life in a municipal formation, but also take into account their psychological mood. The proposed questionnaire allowed the residents to creatively approach the survey, noting exactly those problems or achievements of the local government that are most important for them. Scientific novelty: As a result of the author's analysis, problems of external effectiveness of the local government are revealed, the analysis of which will allow to correct the work of the municipal administration in the sphere of improving the population's satisfaction with the living conditions in the territory.

Purpose. Study of the levels of information interaction necessary for effective communication of public authorities with the population. Methods. The ideological, tactical and technological levels of information interaction are analyzed on the basis of the analysis of regulatory legal documents and expert survey data. Results. Based on the analysis of the existing concept of information policy, the limitations of this normative legal act are revealed. Recommendations on the content and implementation of the information policy of the public authorities have been developed. The key problems of modern PR departments of the public authorities, the desirable position of the PR department in the structure of the authority are revealed. The results of an expert survey of employees of the press services of authorities are analyzed. Target audiences, communication channels and criteria for the effectiveness of the press service are considered. The role of information technologies in the work of modern authorities is investigated.Scientific novelty. Scientific novelty consists in the allocation of three levels of information interaction of public authorities with the population: ideological, tactical and technological.

Purpose. The study of experience of regulation of a health care system of the countries with a high level of development of health sector for allocation of general ways, methods of regulation that could be applied to the state and municipal regulation of the health care system of Russia. Methods. The existing methods of state regulation of health care of a number of countries of global economy used concerning a health care system are analyzed. Results. The main group of problems, characteristic of most of the considered states, including problems of municipal units are revealed, the basic methods of regulation and possible ways of using the experience of other countries in the process of state regulation of the health care system of Russia at federal and municipal levels are defined. Scientific novelty. The general problems of state regulation of health care at the federal and municipal levels for a number of countries and the direction of improvement of system regulation of branch of health care of Russia at the federal and municipal levels are defined.

Purpose. The study of the process of forming a strategic planning system in the Russian Federation at different levels of management, taking into account the existing regulatory and legal framework and experience in implementing strategic documents, to identify the overall methodology of this process, both at the regional and municipal levels. Methods. System analysis, document analysis, general scientific methods. Results. The approaches, the selection of tools and the development of methods for the evaluation of the strategic planning system with the aim of its implementation in the practice of regional and, especially, municipal management, where strategic planning has only general outlines are substantiated. Scientific novelty. Determination of the content of the category "strategic planning system" as applied to socio-economic systems at the regional and municipal levels. Determination of methodological tasks of researching the directions of development and improving the system of strategic planning at the regional and municipal levels. Determination of the principles for the development and interrelation of strategic planning documents, taking into account the multistage organization of socio-economic systems.

Purpose. The study aims to study international experience in realizing spatial shifts in old industrial cities in order to determine the extrapolation prospects for old industrial territories in the Russian Federation. Methods. Cross-national analysis, general scientific methods. Results and practical significance. The objects of transformation are determined within the framework of spatial shifts in the old industrial city. Scientific novelty. Possible prospects for the realization of spatial shifts in the Russian industrial cities are disclosed.

Object. The search for additional forms of financing investment activities is an important problem of the Russian economy in General and municipalities in particular. The author comes to the conclusion that the implementation of investment projects with use of mechanisms of project financing is the most effective form of investment that allows you to solve many issues of social and economic development of municipal formations. Purpose. The aim of this work is to determine the socio-economic role of project Finance on economic development of municipalities. Methodology. In this study, using qualitative methods, a comparative analysis of the term "project financing" and other forms of investment, the analysis of the definition of the contribution of the project financing of the project in socio-economic development of municipalities. Results. The result of this work is to determine the theoretical foundations of project Finance, its key principles and features. Define the result of project financing of the project in socio-economic development of municipalities. The results obtained will be needed to address socio-economic issues of municipalities through the implementation of large-scale investment projects. Conclusions. Defined industries in which projects are successfully implemented with the use of project financing mechanisms and their role in the socio-economic development of municipalities.

Purpose. In the article the authors consider the basic strategies of the city population's behavior in the consumer market (on the example of the city of Ekaterinburg). Methods and scientific novelty. Estimating with the help of a sociological survey the aggregate index of consumer sentiment and other accompanying indicators, a comparative analysis is made between the consumer expectations and sentiments and the main directions of the strategic development of the consumer market of the city, approved in the Master Plan. Results. The revealed contradictions form the basis for recommendations for leveling the behavior of consumers in the market and the activities of local governments in order to improve the efficiency of the consumer market.

Purpose. The article substantiates the methodological approaches to the evaluation of the effectiveness of marketing activities in the market of social services of the municipal formation. Results. Tendencies of formation and development of the market of social services in the conditions of market economy are revealed. Scientific novelty. Specific features of the market of social services in the system of municipal marketing are defined as features of the manifestation of the innovative method of managing the social sphere.

Purpose. The study is aimed at analyzing the special legal status of local government bodies as legal entities, taking into account the dual nature of their nature as public authorities and business entities. Methods. Analysis of the norms of legislation governing the status of local self-government bodies as legal entities. Identification of contradictions in the legal regulation of the participation of local governments in civil relations. Results. The issue of the possibility and necessity of holding the status of a legal entity by public entities is investigated. The bodies of local self-government have public authorities and at the same time are subjects of civil law. The correlation of the public legal concept of the public authority and civil-legal design of the legal entity is analyzed. The usefulness and necessity of introducing the category of a legal entity of public law is indicated, at the same time attention is drawn to various and ambiguous prospects for the development of Russian legislation in the case of using this design. Scientific novelty. The classification of legal entities into public and private is proposed. The principle of borrowing is formulated according to which traditional civil constructions should be accepted by public law in their original understanding, without distortion, and vice versa.

Purpose. Investigation of the implementation of social security guarantees as an element of the legal status of municipal employees in terms of legal impact on social risks. Methods. The article analyzes the provisions of federal laws, the laws of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation, and municipal legal acts that establish guarantees for municipal employees in the field of social security. Comparative characteristics of the contents of individual guarantees to state civil and municipal employees allowed to identify inequalities in the legal impact on similar social risks Results. The paper substantiates that the social security guarantees of a municipal employee are an important component of his legal status. They are part of the social protection system of the municipal employee and his family members. The conducted research has allowed to draw a conclusion that the majority of social grants to municipal employees are common, guaranteed to all or to the majority of citizens of our country. They are fixed in the normative legal acts on compulsory social insurance, on social security. In this sphere, there are also some features (pensions for seniority, additional guarantees at the expense of local budgets). It is shown that the formulations of individual social security guarantees to municipal employees did not receive their legislative development, remaining "declarations of intent". The discussion of the multi-level nature of securing guarantees for the municipal employee will be touched upon. Scientific novelty. Scientific novelty consists in the analysis of laws (federal laws of the subjects of the Russian Federation), municipal legal acts with regard to securing social security guarantees for municipal employees, studying the implementation of these guarantees through the prism of legal impact on social risks.