Moscow University Bulletin. Series 12. Political Science

This article analyzes the theory and practice of using mediation technologies for managing (resolving) modern environmental confl icts. The main characteristics of mediation, the necessary conditions for its application, types of mediation, and the diff erences between environmental mediation and other types of mediation are 8 highlighted. Using various examples of mediation in environmental confl icts in the United States since the 1970s, the author examines the principles of choosing a mediator, the mediator’s role in the confl ict resolution process, the advantages and disadvantages of using mediation from the point of view of various participants in environmental confl icts, the political aspects of using mediation to resolve environmental confl icts and its possibilities and limitations.

Moscow University Bulletin. Series 12. Political Science.

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This article analyzes the systems of public service management in a number of developed and developing countries, substantiating the relationship between the level of development of society and the complexity of the system necessary to manage the bureaucracy. The transformation of subjects of management by the state service of Russia in the course of its post-Soviet institutionalization is considered, and problems and contradictions in this sphere are treated. Taking into account historical practice and advanced scholarly concepts, the author offers proposals to improve the bureaucracy management system at the federal level: the solution lies, the article maintains, in the area of intersection of centralization and denationalization. It is necessary to expand the legal content of the civil service, the author proposes, gradually turning it into a public service aimed at solving the tasks of the country’s social and economic development.
The article’s conclusions were substantiated during the author’s participation in the work on the draft of the project Strategy for Social and Economic Development of Russia through 2030.

Keywords: civil service, bureaucracy, institution, reform, civil society, public service, human resources, effi ciency.

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