Positive Aspects of Modern Russian Bureaucracy
https://doi.org/10.17803/1729-5920.2019.155.10.123-140
Abstract
Despite the general dissatisfaction with the domestic bureaucracy, bureaucracy is a universal and most common apparatus of government in any developed state. In the paper the author tries to identify and analyze only the positive qualities of the bureaucratic management system in relation to modern conditions, deliberately not affecting the shortcomings of the bureaucratic organization. This approach is usually not used by researchers who seek to focus on the defects of bureaucracy. At the same time, it is necessary to know both the positive and negative sides of the modern bureaucratic apparatus in order to transfer them to the newly formed governing structures.
The author reveals the positive aspects of such qualities of the bureaucracy as strict regulation of activities, vertical hierarchy (with its inherent unity of command and centralization), the specification of the labor function of the official and structural units of the apparatus, the competence of officials, as well as the impersonality of relations between them. A rational bureaucracy resembles a well-programmed mechanism aimed at efficiently solving the problems that arise before it. Their implementation in the system of modern domestic bureaucracy is shown following the example of the norms of the current Russian legislation.
The author divides the concepts of «bureaucracy» and «bureaucratism», offering to be guided not by populist slogans about the elimination of bureaucracy at all, but by minimizing the defects of the managerial impact of the bureaucratic apparatus. The task of the political leadership of the country is to choose the structure that best meets the goals and objectives of the state, as well as the internal and external factors affecting it. It is important not to dwell on the search for the «only true» structure of the control apparatus, and learn to identify the positive and negative sides of the existing system and adjust them to meet the challenges.
About the Author
E. A. Glukhov
St. Petersburg Military Institute of the National Guard (SPbVI VNG)
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
GLUKHOV Evgeniy Aleksandrovich, Cand. of Sci. (Law), Deputy Head of the Department of Criminal Procedure and Criminalistics, Colonel of Justice
198206, St. Petersburg, ul. Pilota Pilyutova, d. 1
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Glukhov E.A. Positive Aspects of Modern Russian Bureaucracy. Lex Russica. 2019;(10):123-140. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.17803/1729-5920.2019.155.10.123-140
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