Evolution of Public Administration in the Russian Federation

This chapter is an overview of the public administration and civil service reforms that took place in the Russian FederationRussian Federation after the dismantling of the Soviet Union in 1991. Having quality human resources and abundant natural wealth, as well as a thousand-year history and a great cultureCulture, the Russian Federation needs to improve its system of government to guarantee high living standards of its citizens and warrant its cultural and political future. The chapter identifies key qualitative characteristics of the existing system of the state and municipal administration of the Russian Federation, and it analyses the difficulties and inconsistencies of its development. It also pinpoints the challenges that the Russian Federation has been facing recently due to reduced global demand for traditional commodities, deteriorating geopolitical situation, and a shrinking working-age population. Keeping in mind the existing external and internal challenges, the author analyses key stages of government transformationTransformation, as well as its various aspects, e.g., administrative reform, civil service reformCivil service reform, electronic government, fiscal reform, reform of control and supervision activities. Special attention is paid to the analysis of the various subsystems of the civil service, namely, the system of the civil service administration, trainingTraining of professional managers for the system of the state and municipal administration, elaboration of organisational and legal mechanisms to counter corruptionCorruption in state and municipal bodies, resolution of conflicts, etc.