Federal Authorities Research Articles

ФОРМИРОВАНИЕ ОБЩЕГО ИНФОРМАЦИОННО-АДРЕСНОГО ПРОСТРАНСТВА АВТОМАТИЗИРОВАННОЙ СИСТЕМЫ ОБМЕНА ДОКУМЕНТАЛЬНОЙ ИНФОРМАЦИЕЙ ДОЛЖНОСТНЫХ ЛИЦ ОРГАНОВ УПРАВЛЕНИЯ, СИЛ, СРЕДСТВ И ОРГАНИЗАЦИЙ ЕДИНОЙ ГОСУДАРСТВЕННОЙ СИСТЕМЫ ПРЕДУПРЕЖДЕНИЯ И ЛИКВИДАЦИИ ЧРЕЗВЫЧАЙНЫХ СИТУАЦИЙ

The software architecture of the automated system for the exchange of documentary information proposed in the article and the associated of the automated system for the exchange of documentary information system architecture will provide the technical possibility of «conflict-free» functioning of communication nodes of control points of the system, combining management bodies, forces and means of federal executive authorities, executive authorities of the subjects of the Russian Federation, local governments and organizations whose powers It includes solving issues related to the protection of the population and territories (water areas) from emergency situations.
 The software complexes being formed and the proposed standard architectural solution will provide the opportunity to build an of the automated system for the exchange of documentary information and the formation of an information and address space based on it on the existing technical means of the operated systems and complexes of documentary communication of communication nodes, using automated workplaces of officials automated control systems, control points of the studied unified state system for the prevention and liquidation of emergency situations.

Тенденции развития федерального законодательства в сфере территориального планирования и градостроительного зонирования

The legal regulation of urban development in Russia continues to develop actively, introducing new legal mechanisms and improving existing ones, which requires scientific analysis and evaluation. This scientific study examines current trends in the development of federal legislation in terms of territorial planning and urban zoning, and provides a legal assessment of the changes taking place. Special attention is paid to the delimitation of powers and the role of federal executive authorities in regulating territorial planning and urban zoning.

Two Counties in Crisis: Measuring Political Change in Reconstruction Texas

Robert Dillard’s Two Counties in Crisis explores three decades of political culture in two divergent Texas counties. Collin County, a frontier county largely home to emigrants from other Southern states, is contrasted against Harrison County, a cotton growing county with 145 planters who each owned more than 20 enslaved peoples. Dillard claims that these counties, and Texas more broadly, did not neatly align with the political culture of the rest of the Confederacy. In a combination of political science and history, Dillard argues that a culture of backlash and resistance to federal authority defined Texas state politics in the Civil War era. While the author’s claims of exceptionalism are unconvincing and unsubstantiated, Two Counties in Crisis demonstrates the contentious state level politics of Reconstruction.

Основные проблемы и барьеры клиентоцентричной трансформации системы государственного управления

The article presents the results of a study conducted by the Center for Implementation of a Client-Centric Approach of GSPM of RANEPA, the purpose of which is to identify the main problems and barriers in the implementation of the federal project “State for People” at the federal and regional levels. The study involved more than 350 civil servants representing the regions of the Russian Federation and federal executive authorities and who were trained under RANEPA client-centricity programs in 2023.The article includes a detailed description of existing problems in the first year of mass implementation of the federal project, the opinions of research participants and proposals for possible solutions and measures to overcome problems. The most significant problems identified in the study include: lack of staffing, lack of core competencies, insufficient regulatory support for the project, inflexible project implementation system, inconsistency of various federal initiatives.

The FDA in the Crosshairs—Science, Politics, and Abortion

In this Viewpoint, the Supreme Court case FDA v AHM is used to illustrate the tension the FDA faces between science and politics, and state authority over abortion vs federal authority over which drugs may be marketed nationwide.

An Integrated Approach to the High-Quality, Safe and Healthy Nutrition Provision for Schoolchildren

Schoolchildren nutrition is one of the urgent problems and is currently one of the most important aspects for federal executive authorities. The study aims at the integrated approach development to ensure high-quality, safe and healthy nutrition for schoolchildren at the municipal level. The study object is the school nutrition system in Ekaterinburg. Nutrition satisfaction assessments results in 2019–2020 revealed that 81 % of headmasters, 48 % of teachers, and 62% of school medical staff believed that children liked to eat in the school canteen. At the same time, a man determined that 40 % of elementary school students, 31 % of high school students, 31 % of parents of elementary school students and 28 % of parents of high school students were satisfied with the catering at school, generally. The thesis presents the proportion data on the unsatisfactory samples of nutritional value identified in the course of inspections in schools in Ekaterinburg in 2019–2022, as well as the dynamics of satisfaction with catering in the school canteen and menu. The researchers systematized data on the reasons for nutrition refusal and (or) limited nutrition in the school canteen; on the attainment of the macro- and micronutrients consumption norms compared to the actual daily rations of schoolchildren in Ekaterinburg. The proportion of children with diseases of the endocrine system in schools varies from 0 to 37 %, including those with obesity – from 0 to 15 %, with diseases of the circulatory system – from 0 to 10 %, digestive system – from 0 to 72 %, musculoskeletal system – from 0 to 65 %. The researchers interrelate the number of unsatisfactory laboratory test samples of food products in public catering enterprises in schools with the digestive diseases in schoolchildren. Based on the research results, a man developed draft municipal program.

The New Racial Spillover: Donald Trump, Racial Attitudes, and Public Opinion Toward Accountability for Perpetrators and Planners of the January 6 Capitol Attack

Abstract Since the violent January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, federal authorities have sought to hold participants and organizers accountable for their assault on American democracy. Troublingly, however, a substantial fraction of the public opposes the prosecution of participants in the assault on the Capitol and rejects charging former president Trump with crimes relating to the planning and execution of the attack. Why does a substantial fraction of the American public oppose accountability for perpetrators of the January 6 attack? In this article, we argue that racial attitudes play a central role in determining individuals' attitudes toward accountability for the Capitol attack. Elaborating on the theory of “racial spillover,” we argue that former president Trump's frequent use of racial rhetoric—which established a racialized identity and cemented a close relationship between negative racial attitudes and support for his presidency among members of the mass public—created conditions in which these attitudes were likely to “spill over” into the ostensibly non-racialized domain of attitudes toward holding perpetrators, planners, and inciters accountable for the attack. Because attitudes toward accountability for the Capitol attack are inextricable from Trump's racialized persona, we hypothesize that negative racial attitudes should be associated with increased opposition to accountability for those responsible for the attack. Using data from four original, nationally representative surveys fielded between 2021 and 2023, we find strong evidence for our racial spillover hypothesis and show that individuals with more negative racial attitudes are more opposed to accountability for those responsible for the Capitol attack.

On the possibility of public control over on-site tax audits in the Russian Federation: towards the formulation of the problem

The article is devoted to the analysis of the possibility of public control over on-site tax audits. The activities of the tax authorities in Russia directly affect the rights, freedoms and legitimate interests of all individuals and legal entities. The problems of organizing and implementing public control measures in relation to the specified activities of federal executive authorities are of great interest and importance, especially in terms of on-site tax audits, during which representatives of the Federal Tax Service carry out within the premises of taxpayer various actions in order to monitor compliance a taxpayer with the legislation on taxes and fees. However, public control over this type of activity of federal executive authorities is fraught with numerous problems, among which one can highlight, for example: the lack of consolidation of this institution of civil society in the Constitution of the country; the lack of detail in the process of public control in the Tax Code of the Russian Federation, including in relation to on-site tax audits; the specifics of the formation of public councils under the Federal Tax Service of Russia and its territorial divisions, in which we question the independence of their members from these authorities. In addition, these problems include: the lack of elaboration of legislation, as well as educational and scientific literature of a system of specific forms, methods, principles and types of public control measures in relation to on-site tax audits; weak use of foreign experience of civil society control in relation to tax authorities, including using modern digital technology. The article develops and substantiates a system of measures to resolve these problems, including by: incorporating this institution into the country's Constitution and tax legislation; developing and implementing specific forms, methods, principles and types of public control measures in relation to on-site tax audits based on positive foreign experience in this area and using modern technologies.

“Ready to Be Terminated”: Guy Jennison and Ottawa Traditions of Autonomy through Elimination

Abstract: The 1950s and 1960s policy of tribal termination is justly regarded as a genocidal federal effort to extinguish tribal sovereignty and identity. Some tribal leaders, however, like Guy Jennison, chief of the Ottawa Tribe of Oklahoma from 1930 to 1962, supported termination. Jennison’s advocacy for termination developed out of an Ottawa political tradition that sought greater autonomy through embracing federal policies aimed at tribal elimination. In this political tradition, the Ottawa endeavored to escape federal control through eliminatory policies while subverting the eliminatory intentions of policy-makers by ensconcing their community in other dimensions of the dominant society. For Jennison, endorsing termination was a strategy to escape federal paternalism and gain greater control over tribal affairs. In anticipation of termination, Jennison led the Ottawas to reestablish tribal government through a state-chartered nonprofit corporation; by perpetuating tribal identity and prerogatives through this vehicle, the Ottawa undermined the eliminatory intentions of termination policy. Placing Jennison’s advocacy for termination within a longer tradition of Ottawa activism reveals the Native intellectual genealogies that informed his perspective and demonstrates how policies intending tribal elimination represented a complex site of Ottawa struggle against federal authority.

Formation of Economic Sovereignty of the Russian Federation: Regional Aspect

The relevance of the research topic is determined by the development and improvement of the state policy for the formation of economic sovereignty of the Russian Federation. The import substitution policy implemented in recent years has yielded positive economic solutions that make it possible not to experience a shortage of goods and production components. With the support of federal and regional authorities, the subjects of economic sovereignty formation (special economic zones, industrial parks, industrial and innovation clusters, etc.) are actively developing. Purpose. The main purpose of the study is to substantiate promising areas for ensuring the economic sovereignty of the Russian Federation in the context of the development of regional investment infrastructure. Objectives: of the study are as follows: substantiation of the directions for ensuring economic sovereignty, analysis and assessment of investments in fixed assets of the regions of the Central Federal District, study of the rating of the subjects of the Central Federal District in terms of investments in fixed assets. Methodology. The methodological basis of the study was the works of domestic scientists in the field of theory and practice of economic policy, economic regulation, and increasing the stability of the economy in the face of sanctions. The results of the study show that the most promising areas for ensuring economic sovereignty are the financing of infrastructure and high-tech industries, the development and support of industrial parks, industrial clusters, the development of investment activity, including through the support of large investment projects, and increasing the efficiency of investments in fixed assets. Conclusions. The results of the study show that the most promising areas for ensuring economic sovereignty are the financing of infrastructure and high-tech industries, the development and support of industrial parks, industrial clusters, the development of investment activity, including through the support of large investment projects, and increasing the efficiency of investments in fixed assets.

An analysis of Nepal's federal health system in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and the Sustainable Development Goals

Nepal's public health slogan was 'Health for All' with integrated community health services in 1991. The female community health volunteer network was created. District Public health offices (DPHO) managed these programs in their districts. After 2008 federalism, 2017 brought federal, provincial, and local governments. The federal health system substituted the administrative District Public / Health Offices in districts. The local governments or health institutions now oversee the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The federal and provincial authorities should have employed qualified professionals to oversee public health at local health facilities. Healthcare efficacy and goal attainment are concerns today. This study did a microscopic investigation using health system studies. The researcher conducted field observations and stakeholder interviews and participated in public discussions. Data from Nepal's federal health system's community status was compared using SWOT analysis. The study delved into specific research gaps thoroughly. According to previous research, health infrastructure could be more effective with financial expenditures. A hypothesis was formed after comparing further information to domestic and international situations. The researcher emphasizes the need for good governance and suggests allocating 6% of national GDP to health spending, in line with WHO recommendations. To fulfil the needs of the healthcare sector, deliver quality medical services, and attain SDGs, it is imperative to ensure the presence of adequately trained health professionals at the local government level. The head of the local health institution must conduct administrative work connected to public health. Hence, public health-trained health staff are needed there.

The Importance of the Structure of Federal Executive Authorities in Public Administration

The paper shows that the current system of federal executive authorities, being an abstract category, is implemented only through the functioning of a specific structure of these bodies. As a set of real subjects, this structure materializes the management strategy embedded in the system of federal executive authorities, which, however, does not arise chaotically, but is formed in the process of development of the system of bodies and their corresponding structure. The paper examines the dynamics of the system and structure of the central executive bodies in the USSR and federal executive authorities in the Russian Federation. The author has analyzed the advantages and disadvantages of corresponding systems and structures that existed in post-Soviet Russia before 2004, as well as structures functioning currently. The information problems of the modern model of federal executive bodies, types and features of communication channels peculiar to the system under consideration have been analyzed. It is argued that the nature of information links between the elements of the system structure determines the degree of stability of the structure itself and, as a result, the entire mechanism of public administration, i.e., the probability of their preservation or destruction. It is concluded that the importance of the structure of federal executive authorities is explained not only in optimizing management activities, but also in forming such a configuration of information communication channels in a specific system of executive bodies that stabilizes the functioning of the entire mechanism of public administration.

ПРОБЛЕМНЫЕ ВОПРОСЫ, КАСАЮЩИЕСЯ ДЕЙСТВИЙ ОРГАНОВ ФЕДЕРАЛЬНОГО ГОСУДАРСТВЕННОГО ПОЖАРНОГО НАДЗОРА НА СТАДИИ ЭКСПЛУАТАЦИИ МЕТРОПОЛИТЕНОВ

The actual problem of improving the fire safety requirements that determine the actions of supervisory authorities at the stage of operation of subways is considered. The purpose of the work was to analyze issues related to the actions of federal state fire supervision. The research method was the analysis of statistics and problematic issues of the actions of the federal state fire supervision authorities. The distinctive features of subways from other objects of transport infrastructure are considered on the basis of statistical data relating, among other things, to the implementation of passenger transportation.
 As a result of the study, a list of problematic issues that arise in the implementation of supervisory activities at the stage of operation of subways was determined, and a scientific justification was made for approaches to the development of technical requirements necessary to solve them. Recommendations are given for improving supervisory activities and introducing changes to the current regulatory documentation.

Development of trends in the energy intensity of regional economies

Aim. To develop recommendations of strategic nature for regional authorities to make decisions aimed at reducing energy intensity and electricity intensity of regional economies, taking into account the identified trends of changes in the process of analyzing the calculated data and applying the typological grouping of the country’s regions.Objectives. To analyze normative legal acts, reporting documents of federal and regional authorities, as well as publications devoted to the research topic; to consider the possibilities of applying to the analysis of energy intensity of regional economies along with the sectoral territorial approach; to present the methodology of analysis of energy intensity of regional economies based on the decomposition of energy intensity and subsequent typological grouping of regions on several grounds; to characterize the obtained results and to determine strategic solutions for the reduction of energy intensity and electricity intensity of regional economies.Methods. Along with general scientific methods of research, such as analysis, generalization, analogy, description, the methods of statistical data processing, including index, methods of average values, dynamic series, balance, aggregation, statistical and typological groupings, summary were applied.Results. Along with the sectoral approach to analyzing the energy intensity of the Russian economy, used primarily by the federal authorities, the territorial approach was considered. The latter makes it possible not only to identify trends and latent factors affecting the energy intensity of the gross regional product (GRP), but also to manage it within the framework of the regional authorities’ targeted policy to reduce energy intensity. By means of the proposed methodology, a typological grouping of regions was carried out, which makes it possible to identify the subjects of the Russian Federation (RF) with the highest values according to the growth rates of electricity intensity and energy intensity, in respect of which it is necessary to use a differentiated approach and incidental measures that take into account the influence of latent factors and the sectoral structure of the regional economy.Conclusions. From the methodological point of view, the article may be of interest to the scientific community focused on finding solutions in the context of improving the energy efficiency of regional economies, and from the practical point of view to regional authorities, whose competence includes the issues of reducing the energy intensity of economies. The study contains elements of novelty, manifested in the methodology of analyzing regional electricity and energy intensity, application of territorial and sectoral approach to improve regional energy efficiency. The article contributes to the evaluation support of management decisions at the regional level in the framework of the state task to reduce energy intensity of the Russian economy.

Territory, rights, and migrant justice: Undocumented first amendment rights, or the deterritorialization of rights access

This paper analyzes the work of the powerful migrant rights organization Migrant Justice, as they exemplify ways in which migrant activists in the U.S. today are challenging the socio-political confines of bordered state territory and are pushing the landscape of rights access in new directions. This work utilizes a year-long ethnography conducted with Migrant Justice as they faced intense targeting and surveillance from immigration authorities, including the use of a covert informant, in response to their successful labor and human rights organizing in the state of Vermont. This work in particular details Migrant Justice’s First Amendment rights lawsuit against the federal government in response to this targeting. Here, Migrant Justice directly challenged the federal government in a groundbreaking lawsuit that saw federal immigration authorities forced to acknowledge constitutional rights for undocumented migrant activists. In this confluence of opposing forces, we of course see egregious abuses against migrant actors, but we also see exemplifications of new and progressively powerful forms of resistance that are posing a specific challenge to the state’s bordered and territorially based limitations on human and civil rights. This work utilizes Stuart Elden’s conception of territory—as a process and a praxis of control—to understand migrant resistance to state-sanctioned exclusion and exploitation and the ways in which these challenges to state power are creating new spaces for political belonging. An analysis in this way allows us to see the work of Migrant Justice as that which increasingly deterritorializes relationships between residents and state power—an undoing of spatial limitations on rights and belonging. Throughout this work, the concept of deterritorialization as a form of migrant resistance is unpacked and defined to understand the full potentials of migrant activism today.

Принятие решения о нежелательности пребывания (проживания) иностранного гражданина или лица без гражданства в Российской Федерации как административно-предупредительная мера, применяемая при обеспечении миграционной безопасности Российской Федерации

Тhe article notes the meaning of administrative and preventive measures in the field of migration. The author’s definition of administrative and preventive measures aimed at ensuring migration security is formulated. The decision-making on the undesirability of the stay (residence) of a foreign citizen or a stateless person in the Russian Federation as a comprehensive measure affecting the provision of migration security of the Russian Federation is analyzed. The role of federal executive authorities in the application of this preventive measure in the field of migration (Rospotrebnadzor, Federal Medical and Biological Agency (FMBA), FSIN, etc.), as well as their officials is reflected. The decisions of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation and other federal courts of general jurisdiction on the application of measures of state coercion against foreigners are used in this work. It is concluded that the decision on the undesirability of stay (residence, as a measure of administrative warning is applied not in connection with the administrative offense committed and not in relation to the offender, but in connection with the circumstances of the present time, entailing the emergence of a real or potential threat to migration security and the safety of life, health of citizens, in order to prevent violations of the law and causing possible harm.

On the Problems and Prospects of Development of the Institute of Public Councils under Federal Executive Authorities: Constitutional and Legal Analysis

Coverage of the problem. This article is devoted to the constitutional and legal analysis of the problems and prospects for the development of the institute of public councils under federal executive authorities in the Russian Federation. Materials and methods of research. The subject of the analysis is the relevant provisions of Russian legislation on the organization and activities of public councils under federal executive authorities in the Russian Federation and the practice of their application; general and private scientific methods are used - analysis, synthesis, analogy, formal-legal, comparative-legal, interpretation of legal norms, historical-legal. Results. The paper substantiates a system of measures to resolve these problems, which will ensure the further development of both the specified variety of subjects of public control and, in general, the institute of public control in the Russian Federation. Discussion. The issues of development and implementation of new forms and methods of functioning of public councils under federal executive authorities in the Russian Federation need further scientific understanding.

Social and seismic structural vulnerability in Zihuatanejo, Guerrero, Mexico

The spatial distribution of the social and seismic structural vulnerabilities in Zihuatanejo (ZIH), Guerrero, Mexico, was estimated. Social vulnerability was assessed considering twelve indicators, including parameters such as access to health services, education, housing, employment, and unfavorable family conditions. Seismic structural vulnerability was evaluated characterizing the structural features of local houses, assessing the type and age of construction, and the quality of building materials. Surveyed households were randomly selected from a statistically significant sample. Our findings indicate that in the western and eastern areas of ZIH the population has high and very high social vulnerability. The main factors that condition these levels of social vulnerability are low-income, female-headed families, and households with marginal access to information technology, such as internet and telephone. Although seismic ground amplification in ZIH is relatively low, the regions to the west and southwest of the city are zones where the impact of strong earthquakes to constructions may be greater than in other areas. In particular, the districts of Lázaro Cárdenas, Benito Juárez, Cuauhtémoc, Emiliano Zapata, Las Mesas, Buenos Aires, Lomas del Quebrachal, and Lomas del Riscal would be affected. In general, houses vulnerable to the impact of earthquakes are in regions where the population is socially more vulnerable. More than 50% of the population and 30% of the houses have high and very high level of social and structural vulnerability, respectively. Our results provide information to the local and federal authorities to strengthen their civil protection and mitigation plans.

Methodology for regional industrial complex management: Architecture of an agent-based model

Industry is the backbone of the economy of developed countries and individual regions. To optimize management processes in such a complex and multi-level sector, specific economic-mathematical models and practical tools have to be developed. The paper discusses the optimal architecture of the regional industrial complex management model on a modern theoretical-methodological and instrumental (program) basis. The classical management theory, optimization theory and game theory constitute the methodology of this study. Among the research methods applied are agent-based and minimax approaches. We substantiate the use of agent-based modelling to simulate administering the regional industrial complex. The paper presents a three-tiered management architecture consisting of federal, regional and company level authorities (united by type of activity). For each level, control agents are identified and a set of indicators formed, which cover the structure of the phase vector, including its attributes, key parameters, control actions used, risks, a model of the parameters’ dynamics, and a model of the data possessed by the object. We build a hierarchical structure of administration and information relationships in the model and, based on the minimax approach, create an algorithm of agents’ efforts to select optimal control actions. The proposed architecture will allow forming a flexible toolkit for assessing industrial development scenarios and producing the best step-by-step management pattern of the regional industrial complex.

The Current State of the Management System for the Process of Reducing the Disability of the Working Population of the Country’s Regions

Currently, in conditions of high risk of the continuation of the pandemic and the introduction of new sanctions, the preservation of both professional health and the working capacity of the working population is of particular relevance. Therefore, it is of great importance to determine the real state of the management system of the process of reducing the disability of the working population of the country’s regions. For this purpose, a socio -logical study was carried out, consisting in a survey using a specially developed questionnaire of heads of government bodies of the regions of the country. The analysis of the results of the study made it possible to identify the existing situation on this problem in a number of regions of the country and systematize both the main factors currently constraining the development of the management system for reducing the level of disability of the working population in the regions, and to determine the type of necessary assistance required by the regions from the federal authorities for the successful development of this management system. The article was prepared as part of the research work of the state task of the RANEPA.