Institutional analysis and analysis of documents of key educational integration processes in Europe: Bologna process and Copenhagen process. Revelation of mechanisms of governance of educational areas created on the basis of these processes and comparison of this mechanisms with ones of governance of the common space of research and education including cultural aspects that is being build between the EU and Russia. Conclusions: no single center in Bologna process, in spite of existence of the Bologna Follow-Up Group as formal governance body; the governance body of Copenhagen process is definite and it is the same organization that started the process; such model is more efficient.
The article deals with governance system improvement with public property in the course of innovation activity. The main governance principles with public property are picked out and innovation tendencies of governance system improvement with public property are determined.
The problem examined in the paper is part of a broader reflection on public governance, especially in its territorial dimension. The author focuses mainly on the modernisation of the public sector in Poland and the world with regard to the principles of participatory democracy as evidenced by the practice of urban governance. In particular, the author focuses on one of the tools that stimulate participation, i.e. participatory budgeting, which has recently resulted in a breakthrough trend in institutional practice and which can be regarded as an innovation in public governance. The aim of the paper is to examine the impact of the implementation of participatory budgeting on governance in selected Polish cities. The whole analysis is carried out in the context of normative assumptions and the analysed problem highlights the question of the standards of good public governance, which should be respected at the local level. The paradigm adopted by the author reflects the call for the "right to the city for the citizens," i.e. an approach whereby cities should develop not only in order to support the economy but also to be able to meet people's aspirations to a better quality of life.
Ключевые слова: глобальное управление, Европейский союз, Китай, Комиссия ООН по глобальному управлению, мировое развитие, многостороннее сотрудничество, китайская концепция. = Key words: Global governance, the European Union, China, the UN Commission on Global Governance, world development, multilateral cooperation, the Chinese concept. ; Статья посвящена термину «глобальное управление», который политические лидеры государств и эксперты стали часто употреблять с началом финансового кризиса. Автор рассматривает позиции Европейского союза и Китая по данной концепции в качестве инструмента внешней политики и приходит к выводу, что, несмотря на тот факт, что ЕС и Китай поддерживают принципы глобального управления, представления обеих сторон о концепции отличаются. Причина заключается в том, что культурные традиции, политические идеологии, экономические интересы, институциональные системы, а также отношение к суверенитету обоих акторов различаются. К тому же нынешняя слабость Евросоюза и внешняя политика государств-членов ограничивают его способность формировать систему глобального управления. = This article deals with the term «global governance» that state officials and intellectuals started to use more frequently after the financial cri-sis stuck. The author considers the EU's and China's attitudes towards this concept as a foreign policy tool. The author concludes that, although the EU and China advocate global governance, both sides have different un-derstanding of the concepts of global governance. The reasons are different cultural traditions, political ideologies, economic interests, institutional systems and ideas of sovereignty. Besides the EU's current weakness and national foreign policies impede its ability to shape the system of global governance.
Globalization undoubtedly is one of modern processes which lay foundations for most significant changes to contemporary societies. Social, economic and political phenomena, undergoing within nation-states and independently on them, have become a part of the network of global concerns and relations that the states are able to control no more than in a limited sense. In terms of localness the phenomenon is reflected in the processes of metropolization of urban agglomerations which form their own unique systems of governance. In doing so, they become distinctive laboratories of new forms of government and democracy. The increasing inadequacy of the territorial structure of the state and its institutional systems in terms of network systems and multilevel relations that form new and functional living space for contemporary man are responsible for initiating reforms in states. However, the process of those changes does not go automatically, and it most often stands for a confrontation of the global system imperatives with values, norms and institutions deeply rooted in social structure and shaped in the Westphalian era. Therefore, the search for wise answers to global challenges abounds in diverse results, an example of which may be seen in hybrid territorial units in France which are concomitant with the specific forms of governance that are formed within. Despite the fact that the book deals with French status quo in the main, it touches upon universal issues which concern challenges that modern democratic nation-states have to meet. The book addresses all researchers of contemporary times, who make an attempt to come to deeper understanding of the changes that a modern state and democracy have to face in times when the global system is being shaped. Unique is the fact that this book transcends theoretical digressions being at the same time embedded in the context of a particular society. The conclusions are based on an extensive empirical sources that the author of this book collected while conducting his research in France, where he had the honor of running discussions with French eminent scholars, politicians and people engaged in self-government. According to the reviewer of the book, professor Kazimierz Z. Sowa: "The collected research material presents itself as very interesting and valuable one; additionally its research method makes it a sui generis source of information. [.] The results provide us with a solid amount of knowledge about modern France whose problems go beyond the present ones."
A paper describes challenges of globalization, Europeanization and new governance towards institution of public administration body (in the fi elds of law and public management). An author mentions basic assumptions of modern public governance and main, significant elements of processes of globalization and Europeanization. It is necessary to consider the legal institution of public administration body (especially in administrative law and science of administration). The paper describes current problems of mentioned topic (such as varied kinds of development and progress – especially connected with information society). The author suggests to appreciate the complex of global values. Finally he describes the aftermentioned phenomenons not only as threats, but also as opportunities. The author recomended to use their to a better development.
Гриднев Д. А. Проблемы управления системой военного образования в период реформы / Д. А. Гриднев // Известия Уральского федерального университета. Сер. 1, Проблемы образования, науки и культуры. — 2013. — № 2 (113). — С. 187-202.The article discusses the features of the system of military education in modern Russia. The study focuses on the problems, which if failed to take into account might influence the effectiveness of the system investigated in a negative way. It can also have a negative impact on the staffing of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federations by the skilled officers' personnel. ; Гриднев Д. А. Проблемы управления системой военного образования в период реформы / Д. А. Гриднев // Известия Уральского федерального университета. Сер. 1, Проблемы образования, науки и культуры. — 2013. — № 2 (113). — С. 187-202.The article discusses the features of the system of military education in modern Russia. The study focuses on the problems, which if failed to take into account might influence the effectiveness of the system investigated in a negative way. It can also have a negative impact on the staffing of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federations by the skilled officers' personnel.
Раздел I «Актуальные проблемы международного публичного права» ; Настоящая статья посвящена вопросам демократии в современной западной международно-правовой доктрине. В первой части статьи предлагается обзор международно-правовых теорий демократии, вторая часть посвящена взглядам на роль международного гражданского общества в решении проблемы демократического дефицита на международном уровне, в третьей части освещены исследования международного правления. = Present article analyzes the issues of democracy in contemporary Western international law doctrine. Firstly the theories of democracy in international law are discussed, than presented are views on the role of international civil society in the elimination of the democratic deficit at the international level and finally international governance studies are briefed.
The fundamental problem faced by the states that have emerged in the area of the former USSR involved the definition of the desired form of their own political regime. The choices made in this respect in the first stage of political transformation were frequently limited only to the formal stipulation of model legal and constitutional solutions. The post-communist elite wielding power in the new states was characterized by a desire to form a one-man organ of state in the form of a strong president. The absence of democratic traditions and the negative legacy of the USSR have profoundly influenced the processes of shaping the political regimes in the post-Soviet area, and have actually become the predominant reason to legitimize authoritarianism. Only a few states of the former USSR have decided to adopt a model of governance other than a strong presidential system. Latvia deserves attention in this respect, as it has decided to reinstate the tested political principles of the interwar period. In the process of political transformation, the Latvian political elite has opted for the parliamentary system of governance and chose a weak presidency and the primacy of parliament. The transformation process was quickly completed allowing Latvia to be classified today as a non-consolidated democracy. Moldova's adopting the system of parliamentary governance in 2000 was, in turn, an unintentional result of a political conflict caused by the President's endeavors to form a strong presidential system. Moldovan parliamentarianism is a product of a protracted shaping of the institutional foundations of the political system and a byproduct of political competition between the legislative and executive powers. The domination of Communists on the Moldovan political stage, however, resulted in the state's appropriation by one group and President Vladimir Voronin, who enjoyed a great influence exerted both on the parliamentary majority (as the leader of the ruling party) and the government, despite the formal system providing for a parliamentary republic. There emerged a dangerous precedent of the President exceeding his rights and thus becoming the actual leader of a formally parliamentary republic. In the period from 2001–2009, Moldova was a system of controlled democracy where apparently democratic institutions were in fact a cover for undivided, informal power wielded by a small circle. This triggered a social revolution in 2009 and early parliamentary elections, which resulted in a transfer of power and the establishment of a coalition of liberal and democratic parties clearly expressing their intention to implement market reforms and European integration. Despite political obstruction in Moldova's shaping of its political system, the country stands out among the former post-Soviet republics. It is the only state in the Commonwealth of Independent States where a continuous and uninterrupted cycle of the transfer of power by means of elections can be observed to conform to the law and constitution since the country declared independence in 1991.
The study was prepared on the basis of the Principal-Agent Theory (PAT) and a method that is associated with it. This choice resulted from the major trajectories in the delegation processes, established on the one hand by states playing the role of principals, and on the other – by supranational institutions in their role as agents.The delegation theory explains the relationship between an entity that delegates power and that which is delegated (the receiving power) and helps analyze the phenomenon of the transfer of power between those entities, its reasons, circumstances, stages of the process, the outcomes and proper terminology and typology. This approach is, therefore, based and focused on the theoretical achievements in the area of research into the process of delegating. The delegation theory is actually the focal plane of theoretical approaches concerning delegating with the elements of the selection of the methods and logic of explanation, and so on. In addition to the clarification of the term of delegation of power and its stages, two basic types of delegation are examined, namely: primary and secondary delegation, and their derivatives, including the relationships between them in the multi-level governance of the European Union. ; The study was prepared on the basis of the Principal-Agent Theory (PAT) and a method that is associated with it. This choice resulted from the major trajectories in the delegation processes, established on the one hand by states playing the role of principals, and on the other – by supranational institutions in their role as agents.The delegation theory explains the relationship between an entity that delegates power and that which is delegated (the receiving power) and helps analyze the phenomenon of the transfer of power between those entities, its reasons, circumstances, stages of the process, the outcomes and proper terminology and typology. This approach is, therefore, based and focused on the theoretical achievements in the area of research into the process of delegating. The delegation theory is actually the focal plane of theoretical approaches concerning delegating with the elements of the selection of the methods and logic of explanation, and so on. In addition to the clarification of the term of delegation of power and its stages, two basic types of delegation are examined, namely: primary and secondary delegation, and their derivatives, including the relationships between them in the multi-level governance of the European Union.
На основе архивных документов рассмотрена система управления деятельностью Белорусской ССР в ЮНЕСКО в первые десять лет после вступления и выделены ее отдельные элементы. При этом отмечается, что республиканская система была частью общесоюзной, с ЦК КПСС на вершине. Партийное руководство интерпретировало мирное сосуществование, сотрудничество и соревнование социалистических и капиталистических государств в духовной сфере как форму классовой борьбы, аргументируя тем самым право на общее руководство и контроль. В статье выявлена роль МИД республики как организатора и координатора оперативной деятельности БССР в ЮНЕСКО, охарактеризовано его взаимодействие с ЦК КПБ, Комиссией Белорусской ССР по делам ЮНЕСКО, другими ведомствами, а также с общественными организациями. Обширный фактический материал, отражающий управление деятельностью Белорусской ССР в ЮНЕСКО, в совокупности с критериями, разработанными юридической наукой, дает основание отнести республику к субъектам международного права, но с ограниченной правоспособностью. = On the basis of archival documents governance operations management system of the Byelorussian SSR in UNESCO in the first ten years after its entry is being reviewed and some particular elements of it are being highlighted. Whereby, it is noted that the republican system was part of the all-union one, with the CPSU Central Committee on top. The party leaders expounded peaceful coexistence, cooperation and competition between socialist and capitalist states in the spiritual realm as a form of class struggle, arguing thus the standing to the overall management and control. The article reveals the role of the Republic's MFA as the organizer and coordinator of the operational activities of the Byelorussian SSR in UNESCO, characterizes its interaction with the CPB Central Committee, Committee of the Byelorussian SSR for UNESCO's job and other agencies, as well as with civil society organizations. An extensive factual material that reflects the operations management of the Byelorussian SSR in UNESCO in con-junction with the criteria developed by legal science give reason to designate the Republic as subject of international law, but with limited legal capacity.
Multi-level governance is now an established field of public policy research. In this context there is a need to introduce two new concepts: substantiation of public policy goals and multi- level coordination of public policy goals. In the study based on this assumption a qualitative approach is used. Usefulness of these two concepts was proved by participatory action policy research on one specific goal substantiated and coordinated within Europe 2020 Strategy in the policy area of poverty. In the course of the research (2012-2015) the author was a representative of the network of social NGOs in the governmental body responsible for implementation of the Europe 2020 Strategy in Poland. The main action research tool was an attempt to modify the goal of poverty reduction decided by the government in 2011. In that process rich data was generated, analyzed, interpreted and used for subsequent actions. The effect of the research is a deep insight and understanding of multi-level governance process in a specific policy area and a proposal for two new concepts. Emerging new research areas were proposed and discussed. ; Obszar teorii i badań, którego dotyczy artykuł, to wielopoziomowe rządzenie (multi-evel governance). Celem artykułu jest wprowadzenie do nauki o polityce publicznej dwóch nowych pojęć: konkretyzacja celu oraz wielopoziomowa koordynacja celu. W badaniach ugruntowujących tę propozycję zastosowano podejście jakościowe. Miały one charakter uczestniczący poprzez działanie (participative action research) w ramach praktyki polityki (policy work, policy practice). Autor jako przedstawiciel jednej z sieci organizacji pozarządowych brał aktywny udział w procesie realizacji Strategii Europa 2020 w Polsce w latach 2012-2015. Zasadniczym instrumentem badania uczestniczącego były działania na rzecz modyfikacji celu dotyczącego ubóstwa, który został ustalony przez polski rząd w roku 2011. Pozostałe dane pochodzą z analizy dokumentów i obserwacji uczestniczącej. W ich wyniku możliwe było uzyskanie głębszego zrozumienia procesu wielopoziomowego rządzenia w jednym z obszarów i propozycja nowych kategorii analitycznych. W rezultacie badań wyróżniono kilka faz krajowej konkretyzacji celu oraz dwa okresy wielopoziomowej koordynacji. Zaproponowano nowe kierunki rozwoju badań.
