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Introduction. The article presents the results of studying the problem of interaction between science and diplomacy, the analysis of scientific diplomacy in domestic and foreign practice. The purpose of the article is to analyze scientific diplomacy as a phenomenon within the framework of he state's foreign policy and as a form of public diplomacy. Methods. The methodological basis of the study was general scientific methods, such as analysis, synthesis and generalization; empirical level methods: observation, comparison, grouping; special research methods. Results and Discussion. The article sets forth the interpretation of the concept of scientific diplomacy by various authors, reviewed its «classical» areas, conducted a retrospective analysis of scientific diplomacy in Russia. The article highlights and describes the features characteristic of the domestic practice of using scientific diplomacy at the present stage of development. In particular, the author gives the examples of joint projects implementation, carries out an analysis of information on the joint publications of Russian and foreign scientists stimulating international cooperation in science and technology, which is one of the goals of science diplomacy. Conclusion. The author has given recommendations for improving the mechanism for implementing and widely introducing into national practice the basics of scientific diplomacy for the purpose of strengthening international cooperation and the national goals of the state.

Artificial intelligence technologies are used in various spheres of human life. One of the promising areas of AI application is the sphere of public administration. Public authorities are introducing communication and information technologies to create new intelligent systems and develop new strategies to prevent risks in public administration. In December 2020, the President of the Russian Federation V. V. Putin signed a decree on the Strategy for the Development of Artificial Intelligence in the Russian Federation. This article presents the directions of the development of artificial intelligence in the Russian Federation, the forecast of trends and transformations in the spheres of public life due to the use of artificial intelligence.

We define the civil service as a political and administrative institution established to meet the needs in the professional performance of political decisions and providing the daily contact between the society and the political power. The definition of civil service in the Russian legislation is not fit the features of public institution, that is why the institutionalization of the civil service in post-Soviet Russia face difficulties.We see ways to overcome this contradiction, which include the improvement of legislation and implementation to the strategic documents the goals, objectives and performance criteria of civil service institution-building. This goals and objectives should orientate the civil servants to ensure economic growth and improving the quality of citizen's life.The architecture of the civil service institution was offered, including the legal, institutional and human components. We identified the institutional characteristics and location of this institution in the environment of society.The algorithm of civil service institutional change was clarified, which includes elements such as institutional selection, the definition of institutional norms and institutional effects.The requirements for the assessment of institutional effectiveness were formulated. We proved the necessity to describe the driving forces of civil service development not only by external influences, but also its internal environment.The comparison of this set of statistics with indicators of internal development of the civil service allows concluding about the correlation between the civil service performance on different stages of its institutional transformation and attainment the priorities of the economy and society. ; Целью статьи является выявление политических факторов институционализации государственной службы в России на современном этапе, связанных с ними проблем и перспектив их преодоления. В рамках исследования выявлена применимость институциональных теорий к государственной службе, предложена модель институционализации государственной службы и рассмотрен в приложении к ней опыт реформ последнего времени; также предпринята попытка выявить корни существующих проблем и предложить варианты их преодоления.Используемая методология основана на принципах неоинституционализма, являющегося одним из приоритетных направлений современных исследований общественно-политических процессов.В результате проведенного исследования обосновано утверждение, что современные дисфункции государственной службы во многом определяются неоптимальным институциональным выбором, сделанным в начале 1990-х гг. Проектирование реформ государственной службы осуществляется узким кругом политико-бюрократической элиты, что способствует длительному консервированию институционализации госслужбы в незавершенной стадии. Чем больше времени проходит с начала политического транзита в России, тем больше возрастает зависимость от предыдущего этапа развития и к тем большим политическим и социально-экономическим издержкам приводит незавершенная реформа бюрократии. Политическими факторами успешного продолжения институционализации государственной службы являются встраивание ее в стратегический курс президента страны, обеспечение поддержки реформы в среде самих государственных служащих и одноступенчатый характер реформы, позволяющий достичь цели в пределах одного президентского цикла.На научную новизну претендуют такие элементы исследования, как концептуализация этапов институционализации в виде целостной модели, предложения по трансформации норм законодательства о государственной службе в соответствии с научными требованиями к общественным институтам, а также по формированию института публичной службы, призванного снизить влияние неэффективной неопатримониальной бюрократии и создать условия для перехода к инклюзивным политическим институтам.

The article analyzes the definitions of the public as a subject of social sciences. The purpose of the paper is to operationalize the concept of the public for its practical application in the system of functioning of political institutions. The basis of the methodology is an instrumental approach. The methods used are comparative, legal analysis, description and generalization of data, a questionnaire survey of residents of a metropolitan Russian city to assess the potential of public activity in solving local issues. Various theories of domestic and foreign researchers focus their attention on particular aspects of the public. Representatives of the managerial approach formally divide the public into several groups: public organized structures (NGOs, professional community, etc.), acting on a permanent and legal basis, and active citizens acting situationally within a specific project to discuss it (interested citizens, expert councils, etc.). Within the framework of political theory, the public always focuses on a problem and forms through getting interested in a particular challenge. From the point of view of the law, the public is not designated as a concept but indirectly finds its expression in the legally established forms of realization of the right to local selfgovernment. In PR, the public is labile, dynamic and unstable to manipulation. The key characteristics of the concept under consideration, which is widely used in the Russian and foreign communication space, but not formed into a single definition, are highlighted. The author concludes that the public is heterogenic, dualistic, centred on a particular problem. The empirical study revealed a low level of public participation in projects associated with creating a comfortable urban environment. On the contrary, the level of willingness to get involved in other city problems is high. ; В статье проведен анализ определений общественности как предмета социальных наук. Цель статьи — операционализация понятия «общественность» для его практического применения в системе функционирования политических институтов. Основа методологии — инструментальный подход. В качестве методов применены сравнительный, правовой анализ, описание и обобщение данных, анкетный опрос жителей крупного российского города на предмет оценки потенциала общественной активности в решении вопросов местного значения. Различные теории отечественных и зарубежных исследователей фокусируют свое внимание на тех или иных аспектах общественности. Представители управленческого подхода формально разделяют общественность на несколько групп — организованные структуры общественности (НКО, профессиональное сообщество и др.), действующие на постоянной и юридической основе, и активных граждан, действующих ситуативно в рамках определенного проекта в целях его обсуждения (заинтересованные граждане, экспертные советы и т. д.). В рамках политической теории общественность всегда сосредоточена вокруг проблемы, и формируется она посредством возникновения интереса к определенной проблеме. С точки зрения права общественность как понятие не обозначается, но косвенно находит свое выражение в законодательно установленных формах реализации права на местное самоуправление. В PR общественность является лабильной, динамичной и неустойчивой к манипуляциям. Выделены ключевые характеристики рассматриваемого понятия, широко используемого в российском и зарубежном коммуникационном пространстве, но не оформленном в единое определение. Автор делает вывод о неоднородности, дуалистичности общественности, сосредоточенной вокруг определенной проблемы. В рамках эмпирического исследования выявлен низкий уровень общественного участия в проектах формирования комфортной городской среды при высоком уровне готовности включиться в решение других проблем города.

The subject of the study is the policy of the Russian Federation to manage the scientific potential of higher education. The purpose of this article is to identify and characterize the trends in modern public policy in this area. As a basic method of research, a system-dynamic approach to policy research is used that involves the allocation of spatial, temporal and technological components. At the same time, the author focuses on the temporary component of the state policy for managing the scientific potential of higher education, which is revealed through the characterization of various stages of its life cycle. Primary data were obtained as a result of an in-depth expert questionnaire, as well as a focus group interview.The main theoretical result of the study is to substantiate the category "life cycle of public policy", covering such major stages as its formation, implementation and evaluation. It is proved that each stage corresponds to a certain type of assessment of the scientific potential of higher education: factor, performance and final. The article gives an original approach to the research of the life cycle of the state policy on management of the scientific potential of the higher school, the interrelation of its stages and stages of the life cycle of the most scientific potential of the higher school is grounded.The main empirical result of the study is the identification of the main risks in the processes under consideration and an analysis of the specific influences of various public and political organizations on their formation. The practical significance of the results obtained is conditioned by the possibility of their use in the development of the concept of state policy for the development of university science. ; Предметом исследования выступает политика Российской Федерации по управлению научным потенциалом высшей школы. Целью настоящей статьи является выявление и характеристика тенденций современной государственной политики в указанной сфере. В качестве базового метода исследования используется системно-динамический подход к изучению политики, предполагающий выделение пространственного, временного и технологического ее компонентов. При этом основное внимание в рамках настоящей статьи автор уделяет временному компоненту государственной политики по управлению научным потенциалом высшей школы, раскрываемому через характеристику различных стадий ее жизненного цикла. Первичные данные получены в результате заочного экспертного анкетирования, а также фокус-группового интервью.Основной теоретический результат проведенного исследования заключается в обосновании категории «жизненный цикл государственной политики», охватывающий такие главные стадии, как ее формирование, реализация и оценка. Доказано, что каждой из стадий соответствует определенный тип оценки научного потенциала высшей школы: факторная, результативная и итоговая. В статье приводится оригинальный подход к исследованию жизненного цикла государственной политики по управлению научным потенциалом высшей школы, обосновывается взаимосвязь его стадий и стадий жизненного цикла самого научного потенциала высшей школы.Основным эмпирическим результатом исследования является выявление основных рисков в рассматриваемых процессах и анализ особенностей влияния различных общественных и политических организаций на их формирование. Практическая значимость полученных результатов обусловлена возможностью их использования при разработке концепции государственной политики по развитию университетской науки.

The article considers the problems in change of the content and character of public policy because of distribution of modern information technologies. The author includes of some functions of traditional media, and also necessity of formation of qualitatively new forms of socio-political interaction at the basis of horizontal network communications on the list of such problems. According to the author, Public Policy Online became today an objective reality, and thus demands respectful attention of the basic participants of modern political process. Formation of political resonance is an important element of modern Online-publicity and creates essentially new possibilities for the state's policy-making of in modern conditions. ; В статье автором рассматриваются проблемы изменения содержания и характера публичной политики вследствие распространения современных информационных технологий. В число таких проблем автор включает исчерпание ряда функций традиционных медиа, а также необходимость формирования качественно новых форм социально-политического взаимодействия на базе горизонтальных сетевых связей. По мнению автора, публичная политика Online стала сегодня объективной реальностью и требует к себе соответствующего внимания основных участников современного политического процесса. Формирование политических резонансов является важным элементом современной Online-публичности и создает принципиально новые возможности для формирования политики государства в современных условиях.

The article deals with the contradictions of socially oriented activities of NGOs as service provides in two Russian regions (St. Petersburg and Sverdlovsk oblast). In the mixed system of social welfare, the importance of the non-profit sector is increasing, but the processes taking place due to the diverse regional practices are ambiguous. We focus on the issues of interaction of the non-profit sector with the state, reasons for strengthening the commercial interests of NGOs, interaction with regional authorities and the risks of the social service system at the regional level. The theoretical framework of the study is the transformation of welfare state into welfare-service state. The study used empirical data obtained by street and telephone surveys of population, interviews with representatives of NGOs, state service institutions and regional government. The analysis demonstrates that the key constraining factors for the development of NGOs as service providers are administrative barriers to access state fonds, inappropriate ways of government's interaction with private services providers in a changing environment, the continued lack of confidence to NGO' activities among the majority of the population. NGOs are limitedly represented in the social service provider registries for a number of reasons: high bureaucratic requirements; difficultly implemented requirements for reporting for cost recovery; strong control on NGO's activities by the authorities; untimely informing concerning grant competitions; non-transparency of competitive procedures. The formal approach of authorities indicates that the institutional advantages of NGOs, their ability to social innovations are not considered. Overcoming the barriers for NGOs as social service providers should be also considered as a resource for increasing the public trust in private sector. © 2020 National Research University Higher School of Economics. All rights reserved.

The article provides a metatheoretical analysis of the ideas of social welfare and public policy goals recorded in the essential documents of the contemporary Lithuanian state. Two methods are applied: a hermeneutical-historical analysis of legal and political texts, and that of rational reconstruction, which is used to infer metatheoretical foundations of the value and normative statements expressed in these texts. The most important among them is the Constitution of the Republic of Lithuania which is considered as social contract constituting Lithuanian political nation. Three layers of the citizenship rights – civil rights, political rights, and social rights – are identified in the body of Constitution. They are considered as historically contingent local reflections of the different epochs of the history of Western world, claiming universal significance for some of its outcomes. Two alternative – an individualistic and a holistic one – concepts of social welfare together with methodologies of its measurement are discussed as alternative resources to provide philosophical-sociological metatheory for the text of Constitution. This combination of the methods referred to above is applied also for the analysis of the strategical long-term planning documents elaborated by the Lithuanian political parties and Lithuanian government. This analysis is used to advance the proposal to use the concept of citizenship rent to describe the paramount goal of the Lithuanian national policy under conditions of eurointegration and globalization. The "citizenship rent" is defined as surplus life chances conditional on the membership in the political nation and due to its comparative advantages that can be augmented by means of public policy.

The article provides a metatheoretical analysis of the ideas of social welfare and public policy goals recorded in the essential documents of the contemporary Lithuanian state. Two methods are applied: a hermeneutical-historical analysis of legal and political texts, and that of rational reconstruction, which is used to infer metatheoretical foundations of the value and normative statements expressed in these texts. The most important among them is the Constitution of the Republic of Lithuania which is considered as social contract constituting Lithuanian political nation. Three layers of the citizenship rights – civil rights, political rights, and social rights – are identified in the body of Constitution. They are considered as historically contingent local reflections of the different epochs of the history of Western world, claiming universal significance for some of its outcomes. Two alternative – an individualistic and a holistic one – concepts of social welfare together with methodologies of its measurement are discussed as alternative resources to provide philosophical-sociological metatheory for the text of Constitution. This combination of the methods referred to above is applied also for the analysis of the strategical long-term planning documents elaborated by the Lithuanian political parties and Lithuanian government. This analysis is used to advance the proposal to use the concept of citizenship rent to describe the paramount goal of the Lithuanian national policy under conditions of eurointegration and globalization. The "citizenship rent" is defined as surplus life chances conditional on the membership in the political nation and due to its comparative advantages that can be augmented by means of public policy.

The article provides a metatheoretical analysis of the ideas of social welfare and public policy goals recorded in the essential documents of the contemporary Lithuanian state. Two methods are applied: a hermeneutical-historical analysis of legal and political texts, and that of rational reconstruction, which is used to infer metatheoretical foundations of the value and normative statements expressed in these texts. The most important among them is the Constitution of the Republic of Lithuania which is considered as social contract constituting Lithuanian political nation. Three layers of the citizenship rights – civil rights, political rights, and social rights – are identified in the body of Constitution. They are considered as historically contingent local reflections of the different epochs of the history of Western world, claiming universal significance for some of its outcomes. Two alternative – an individualistic and a holistic one – concepts of social welfare together with methodologies of its measurement are discussed as alternative resources to provide philosophical-sociological metatheory for the text of Constitution. This combination of the methods referred to above is applied also for the analysis of the strategical long-term planning documents elaborated by the Lithuanian political parties and Lithuanian government. This analysis is used to advance the proposal to use the concept of citizenship rent to describe the paramount goal of the Lithuanian national policy under conditions of eurointegration and globalization. The "citizenship rent" is defined as surplus life chances conditional on the membership in the political nation and due to its comparative advantages that can be augmented by means of public policy.

The article provides a metatheoretical analysis of the ideas of social welfare and public policy goals recorded in the essential documents of the contemporary Lithuanian state. Two methods are applied: a hermeneutical-historical analysis of legal and political texts, and that of rational reconstruction, which is used to infer metatheoretical foundations of the value and normative statements expressed in these texts. The most important among them is the Constitution of the Republic of Lithuania which is considered as social contract constituting Lithuanian political nation. Three layers of the citizenship rights – civil rights, political rights, and social rights – are identified in the body of Constitution. They are considered as historically contingent local reflections of the different epochs of the history of Western world, claiming universal significance for some of its outcomes. Two alternative – an individualistic and a holistic one – concepts of social welfare together with methodologies of its measurement are discussed as alternative resources to provide philosophical-sociological metatheory for the text of Constitution. This combination of the methods referred to above is applied also for the analysis of the strategical long-term planning documents elaborated by the Lithuanian political parties and Lithuanian government. This analysis is used to advance the proposal to use the concept of citizenship rent to describe the paramount goal of the Lithuanian national policy under conditions of eurointegration and globalization. The "citizenship rent" is defined as surplus life chances conditional on the membership in the political nation and due to its comparative advantages that can be augmented by means of public policy.

Актуальность исследования продиктована необходимостью и важностью изучения изменений в технологии политической риторики, используемой в качестве инструмента манипуляции общественным сознанием. Цель работы - очертить основные контуры современной политической риторики в России, описать то, какую реакцию вызывают риторические уловки в среде экспертов (социологов, политологов, журналистов), и какое отражение такая «языковая игра» находит в обществе. Методы исследования: сравнительный анализ, вторичный анализ данных социологических исследований.Результаты исследования: Перформативность (действенность) речей политических ораторов сегодня является существенным отличием политического дискурса современной России от постперестроечного периода. Контуры публичной политики в современной России проявляются через внутренние феномены - риторические уловки политических лидеров. Это - двоемыслие, рефрейминг, мифологизация. Политическая риторика сегодня выступает как формой выражения политики правящей группы, так и стимулом к конкретным политическим действиям.Выводы: Двоемыслие власти маскирует различные цели, которые в конкретный момент времени выгодны политической элите, по сути, это основа идеологии правящей партии. Двоемыслие власти порождает двоемыслие в обществе. Рефрейминг, или смена фрейма, ведет к тому, что в сегодняшней политике выигрывает тот, у кого фрейм сконструирован наиболее искусно, он выступает носителем смыслового концепта, посредством которого аудитория интерпретирует окружающую политическую, экономическую, социальную действительность. Мифологизация становится одним из нерациональных средств управления обществом. В целом риторические уловки современных российских политиков подрывают доверие в обществе и становятся серьезным препятствием для ведения реального диалога между властью и обществом. ; The study is relevant due to necessity and importance of researching the changes in the technology of political rhetoric used as a tool to manipulate public consciousness. The work aim is to outline the basic contours of contemporary political rhetoric in Russia, to describe what kind of reaction is caused by rhetorical tricks among the experts (sociologists, political scientists, journalists etc.) and to explore the reflection of such a «language game» in society.Methods: comparative analysis, secondary data analysis of sociological research.Results: Performativity (as action) of modern political speeches is a significant difference from the political discourse of Russia of a previous period. Contours of public policy in modern Russia are manifested through internal phenomena, rhetorical tricks of political leaders. Political rhetoric today acts both as a form for expressing the course of the ruling group and as stimulation to specific political actions.Conclusions: The doublethink of the authorities masks different purposes that are beneficial to the political elite at given time, in fact it is the basis of the ruling party ideology. The doublethink of the authorities generates doublethink in the society. Reframing leads to the case that in today's politics wins the one who has the most artfully designed frame, the one acts as the carrier of concept by which the audience interprets the surrounding political, economic and social reality. The mythologizing becomes one of non_rational means of social control. In general, the rhetorical tricks of modern Russian politicians undermine the trust of the society and become a serious obstacle for real dialogue between the authorities and the society