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RESEARCH
Research projects and priorities of the Urals Academy of Public Administration are outlined below:
Sociology and Psychology Department
- Sociological Maintenance of Selective Campaigns in the Sverdlovsk Area (Prof., Dr. V. Popov);
- The Population’s Perception of the Activities of Local Bodies of Authority (I. Koch, Senior Lecturer, Candidate of Sciences);
- Administrative Staff Development: Conflicts Among Administrative Staff;
- Local Bodies of Authority in the Sphere of Social Protection;
- The Image of the Employee in Mass Consciousness;
- Ethical Aspects of Activities of State and Municipal Employees;
- The Electorates Preparedness for Presidential Elections (A. Mursin, Lecturer);
- Social Status of the Health of the Population (A. Mursin, Lecturer);
- Attitudes Towards the Current Social Economic Situation (A. Mursin, Lecturer).
At present, the faculty’s research predominantly focuses on the sociological and social-psychological maintenance of the activities of state and municipal management bodies. Within the framework of this theme, the following projects are planned:
- Personnel of State and Municipal Management Bodies;
- Market of the State and Municipal Management Staff in the Urals Region;
- Professional Culture of Public Management in the Urals region:
- Orientation of Values and Work Attitudes;
- Employees;
- State Service Ethics.
- Sociological and Social-Psychological Maintenance of Management Activities;
- Local Self-Government Bodies and the Population’s Level of Satisfaction;
- Conflict Resolution in the Public Administration;
- Social Sphere Management.
Centre of Regional Policy and National Safety, UAPA
This centre has introduced an automated information-analysis system in order to monitor social situations. Created by doctor of philosophical sciences, Professor V. Zhitenev, the computer processes economic, sociological and social-psychological information, allowing for estimates on the degree of readiness of various groups to take collective action to protect their interests (e.g., strikes, meetings, hunger-strikes, statements against authority and other forms of social protest). The system also gauges the population’s attitude towards the activities of bodies of authority and heads of federation, area, republic and municipal administration. Analysts using the system can trace changes in the political orientation of voters to help identify which candidate they are likely to support in elections.
Estimates of levels of social tensions and potential social conflict are dynamic, i.e., the intensity among different population groups may be temporary, so forecasts for each quarter or month are provided. Forecasting provides the opportunity to prevent social conflict on a local level (enterprise, area, city) and in region as a whole, to estimate the efficiency of bodies of authority and to decrease social intensity. A description of the political orientation of the voters and their opinion of bodies of authority and political leaders is generated.
Department of the Regional and Municipal Economy, Urals State Economic University
The Faculty of Regional and Municipal Economy was established in 1962 and actively conducts research and prepares experts through various postgraduate courses. In the last five years, three candidates successfully defended their papers and two doctoral dissertations were also approved. A number of teachers have qualifications from abroad, including the USA, France and Spain. The faculty’s basic research priorities are:
• social-economic development of the region, including new territorial-economic formations (joint business, scientific parks, etc.);
• social-economic potential in a territory;
• preparing training materials for regional administrative-territorial staff;
• the development of regional information systems;
• substantiation of regional economic policy;
• social-economic examination of regional projects and programmes;
• marketing a territory;
• the development of programmes to reduce intensity in the job market of cities and areas.
Department of State and Political Management, UAPA
- Comparative Analysis of the Political Party System in Western Countries (Professor, Doctor V. Evdokimov);
- Comparative Analysis of Public Management in Foreign Countries and in Russia (Senior Lecture, Candidate of Science, B. P. Guseletov);
- Public Politicians in European Countries (Candidate of Political Science, I. Startsev).
Institute of State and Law of the Urals Department of the Russian Academy of Sciences
- Law and Political Problems of Immediate and Representative Democracy in Russia (V. Rudenko, Candidate of Philosophical Sciences);
- Process of Decentralisation in Modern Russia and Problems of Local Self-Government (V. Rudenko, Candidate of Philosophical Sciences).
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