Abstract
The paper is devoted to the problems of public social partnership, the importance of the participation of the government, society and business in it is highlighted. The aim of the paper is to demonstrate the need to study the relations of social partnership and the importance of evaluating the effectiveness of the participation of government, society and business in them. Relations between the partnership actors are developing unpredictably, but the directions of state policy demonstrate the vector that is set in Russian practice. The authors analyze the existing theories in the field of social partnership and highlight the theory of stakeholders. The categories “public social partnership” and “public management of labor resources” are formulated. A system of indicators in the actor context is proposed, which assesses the level of participation of each of the partnership actors in the author’s ideology of evaluating the effectiveness of participation. The authors’ conclusions support the fact that the effectiveness of actors’ participation cannot be assessed without a clear understanding of the social policy mechanisms used, as presented in the Russian regulatory framework.
Highlights
There is much talk these days about involving ordinary citizens more definitively and directly in the policy process
Deliberation and citizen engagement are considered as the remarkable features of the current forms of public social partnership as attempts of creating collaborative basis for public involvement processes compete with more traditional top-down approaches
There are a plurality of evaluation approaches and methods determining the effectiveness of participation in public social partnership, but according to Abelson J. (2006) they can be divided into three main groups: 1) user-based which assumes different participants have different goals and that evaluation must take them into account; 2) theory-based which is driven by theories and models of public participation and applies normative evaluation universally to any public participation effort; 3) goal-free evaluation which is not constituted by any stated goals and is conducted in the absence of any theory
Summary
There is much talk these days about involving ordinary citizens more definitively and directly in the policy process. Deliberation and citizen engagement are considered as the remarkable features of the current forms of public social partnership as attempts of creating collaborative basis for public involvement processes compete with more traditional top-down approaches. A defining concept of deliberative democracy theory, is experiencing a renaissance among both scholars and policymakers. Citizen dialogues have been used to elicit informed opinion and to probe for shared public values in conjunction with major policy reform initiatives. Communications between different public organizations and citizens take an important place in the process of reducing the degree of information asymmetry and ensuring successful co-production and co-delivery of services. Effective communication is necessary to maintain a healthy relationship and build mutual trust that facilitates co-production
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