Public Administration Reform and Building of the 'Vertical of Power' in Russia: Exploring Incommensurability
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The dissertation explores the reform of Russian public administration that began in 2003.Although, it was considered by the ruling elite as one of the most important political projects that should establish a necessary fundament for further socio-economic modernization of the country, the reform has not yet resulted in significant improvement of governance in the country.The dissertation investigates the conceptual inconsistency of the model of reform, based on the New Public Management approach, and the nature of political process in Russia, established during the presidency of Vladimir Putin and named building the 'vertical of power'.into the economy had not yet decreased.8 The head of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry Evgeniy Primakov argued that public sector reform in Russia "had died before being born." 9 He saw the problem in reluctance of bureaucrats to support further decentralization and to transfer excessive state functions from public to private agencies.Public officials, directly involved in the process of reform implementation, had to acknowledge difficulties in the reform process, although they were not as critical as some politicians or independent observers.For example, in 2007 Andrei Sharonov, then, a high-profile public official from the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade, argued that the reform should not be considered a failure."To put it simply, its time constraints had to be extended, because the object of the reform appeared to be very complex, cunning and dodgy." 10 Critical opinions of politicians and scholars about the progress and efficiency of the reform are reinforced by empirical evidence.The most obvious indicator would be delays in the implementation of planned measures for the reform.For example, the second and most crucial stage of the reform was extended for two more years, from the initially planned 2008 until 2010.Obviously, the reform of public administration in Russia faces evident challenges.Some of these challenges had already been foreseen by 8 "D.Medvedev: "Biznes ne dolzhen oplachivat' 'kazhdyi chikh' gosudarstva"" (2009, August 05).
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.013 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".