Does regional context matter? A comparative study of two Russian regions implementing budget reforms

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Russian central government budgeting and public sector reform discourses : Paradigms, hybrids, and a “third way”

Author's accepted version (post-print).This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in International Journal of Public Administration on 17/10/2017, available online: http://wwww.tandfonline.com/10.1080/01900692.2017.1383417.Available from 18/04/2019.This study explores how public sector reform discourses are reflected in Russian central government budgeting. Through the lenses of institutional logics, Russian central government budgeting is considered to be a social institution that is influenced by rivaling reform paradigms: Public Administration, New Public Management (NPM), the Neo-Weberian State, and New Public Governance. Although NPM has dominated the agenda during the last decade, all four have been presented in “talks” and “decisions” regarding government budgeting. The empirical evidence illustrates that the implementation of management accounting techniques in the Russian public sector has coincided with and contradicted the construction of the Russian version of bureaucratic governance, which is referred to as the vertical of power. Having been accompanied by participatory mechanisms and a re-evaluation of the Soviet legacy, the reforms have created prerequisites for various outcomes at the level of budgeting practices: conflicts, as in the UK, and hybridization, as in Finland.acceptedVersio

Beyond Statistics: a Qualitative Study of Primary Sector Transformation in the Post-Soviet Russian Arctic

The Russian Arctic is at the epicentre of economic, environmental, and social changes. At the same time, the peripheral character of the territory, its strong orientation on primary sector makes the region extremely volatile to suchlike shifts. The study concerns primary sector transformation in the Post-Soviet period when after 1991 significant changes in the economy were observed. The main aim of the paper is to identify the specifics, features and development prospects of the recent primary sector transfor-mation in the Russian Arctic. The statistical methods do not reflect the full picture of the transformation. Firstly, Russia has switched to UN national accounts system only in 1994. Secondly, the Arctic statistics after 2009 for regional level is unavailable. That is why the main method of the research is the expert survey method. The results of the study demonstrate the dominant role of the primary sector and the strong dependence of Russian Arctic regions on these activities. The study identifies the key factors and drivers of the transformation, a specific position of the oil and gas sector and the role of natural resources to be traditionally used in the primary sector. Despite the positive role of economic diversification in the long-term economic development, the corresponding effect for the Arctic regions is not fully expressed. The methodological novelty of the research is an unconventional research method of investigating primary sector transformation on the regional level in the Post-Soviet Russian Arctic, i.e. the expert survey. The method can be applied to other countries and industries

Smartocracy : Context entanglement of the smart city idea and bureaucracy in Russia

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Ideological and financial spaces of budgetary responses to COVID-19 lockdown strategies : comparative analysis of Russia and Ukraine

Author's accepted version (postprint).This is an Accepted Manuscriopt of an article published by Emerald in Journal of Public Budgeting, Accounting and Financial Management on 30/10/2020.Available online: https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/JPBAFM-07-2020-0110/full/htmlacceptedVersio

Smart city dialogue in the Arctic : Opportunities and challenges.

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Adaptive Governance for a Resilient Digital Society

Governments are confronted with all kinds of changes in their digital environment, such as pandemics, fake news, and security breaches. These changes come with many uncertainties and are hard to predict, whereas decisions need to be made quickly to avoid a negative impact. Adaptive governance embraces uncertainty and complexity by enabling continuous learning, involving a wide range of diverse actors, and being able to react within a short time frame. Adaptive governance can be viewed as a governance philosophy based on a range of instruments to create adaptability. The conflicting values of stability and adaptability can be balanced in different ways by governments. The variety in the environment and the variety of instrument to adapt to the environment needs to be in concert. Adaptive governance instruments can be combined to increase their effectiveness and to create a resilient society. Further research in governance instruments, their usage, and their effectiveness is needed

Unraveling the Social-Technical Complexity of Dashboards for Transformation

The need for standardized and visualized performance monitoring on a wide range of topics has become apparent in recent years. In the public sector, there has been an increase in the number of dashboards to create transparency into the progress. Yet, the design of dashboards encounters many challenges ranging from technical to social. The goal of this research is to unravel the social-technical complexity of dashboards and outline their basic requirements and a process for creating dashboards. In addition to explicit project milestones, these also visualize digital implementation programs at the policy level