Strategic Planning in the Russian Federation: Theory, Practice, Methodology

Abstract

After adopting the federal law ‘About Strategic Planning in the Russian Federation’ strategic planning in the country was investigated. Methodological foundation of setting goals, fixing horizons of strategic planning was shaped by works of overseas and home experts in the field of institutional construction, system -genetics, structural analysis, quantitative modeling. The authors researched ideas about national development put forward by followers of liberal logics of step-by-step social engineering and representatives of historicism doctrine of theological planning of public development and showed possibilities of their combination. Disadvantages in public spheres of state activities dealing with forecasting, planning, programming and resource supply for the development, which are understood as elements of strategic planning were analyzed. The authors studied objective contradictions and risks in home practice of strategic planning and substantiated the necessity to upgrade institute of state programs in the Russian Federation. They rejected the dominance of once-only assignments and decisions in favour of documents of strategic planning. The method of finding optimum values for income distribution of the consolidated budget of the Russian Federation by levels of budget system was put forward. The three-level budget system of the country is considered as institute, instrument and resource source of strategic planning. The hypothesis about possibility to reach the optimum structure of budget system, which could create conditions for including sub-national bodies of power in implementation of national projects was substantiated.