Russian abstract: История и опыт строительства инфраструктуры, а также устойчивости инфраструктуры в условиях чрезвычайной ситуации не дает никаких оправданий...

This paper analyzes the main results of the pension reform started in Russia in 2002. Means of raising the level of provision of pensions are introduced. Special attention is given to the funded part of pension and to the reform of institutions of mandatory and voluntary pension insurance.

Numerous studies of informal employment were focused on its possible impact on the income of informal workers. However consequences of informal employment for socioeconomic position of workers and social inequality in general couldn't be reduced to the monetary changes. This article presents the...

Numerous economic, sociological and psychological studies show that job loss leads to the major decline of social position measured by various indicators like income level, subjective wellbeing, life chances, job-search abilities. Job loss also leads to the serious downfall of subjective social...

The costs and benefits of privatization are considered, focusing on the current Russian conditions. The experience of many countries, as well as econometric and theoretical studies, a review of which is given in the paper, show that relative efficiency of privatized enterprises in comparison...

The monography considers laws and mechanisms of social development from positions of positivism, dialectic materialism and the theory of systems. The methodology of the author is based on causality in relations of a society and social institutes. Social development is considered as result of...

The effective voluntary control by the population of the work of state bodies is the social capital of the nation. The existing structures, formed of representatives of the population, are mainly engaged in duplicating the functions of government bodies and executive authorities. We consider the...

The goal is to study the socio-cultural characteristics of society in the agro-industrial complex of the region, to determine cultural codes - both the driver of development and the "rut problem" caused by informal institutions and negative non-format practices. The problems of socio-economic...

We introduce the concept of collaborative hierarchy, a mechanism of collaboration which combines hierarchical and peer-to-peer interactions. In a collaborative hierarchy, a set of participants informatively "subordinate" to the same coordinator forms a peer-to-peer network producing consensual...

Review of the monograph A.I. Kazannik “Scientific organization of administrative work in state and municipal institutions in Russia” first published in limited edition in 2004.