Господство государственной бюрократии в России

Abstract

Sociological studies of the last two decades show that according to the vast majority of citizens opinions the Russian state bureaucracy has become a special social estate, separated, alienated from the rest of society. About half of the respondents believe that the power of the bureaucracy in the economy exceeds the power of the President of the Russian Federation, and the majority believe that in modern Russia there is no force capable of limiting the power of the bureaucracy. In public opinion, government officials are practically the only social group that hinders rather than contributes to the development of Russia. To understand the social reality that has developed in our country, it is proposed to use the concept of the state bureaucracy dominion over society and the state. This dominion is ensured by the fact that the state bureaucracy has formed into social estates that serve the state and receive special rights and privileges for this, which are inaccessible to those who are not included in these estates. The service estates receive from the state the necessary resources for their services, which they master, but do not develop. The appropriation of resources for the state bureaucracy is more important than the solution of socially significant problems. Using its dominion to strengthen such an economy, which can be called a distribution economy, the state bureaucracy uses market relations to replenish the resources of change and distribution, and not for the consumption development. A specific bureaucratic reality is being created that differs from the actual one, and therefore the reforms designed within the framework of this reality only bring a worsening of the situation (an example is the reform of the Russian Academy of Sciences). As a result of such bureaucracy dominion market relations are distorted, modern technologies are inefficiently used or not used at all in the economy, public administration poorly uses science in decision-making systems, justice is violated in Russian society and socially significant problems have not been solved for decades. And it can be predicted that, despite such negative consequences for society of its dominion, the state and municipal bureaucracy will not abandon it in the foreseeable future.