The Role of Ideological Factor in Improving the Quality of Municipal Management System in the Modern Russian Society

The article studies the role of the ideological factor in improving the quality of municipal management in the Russian society. The authors dwell on the necessity for reconsidering the conceptually complex and contradictory situation that is connected to determination of relations of state management, municipal management, and local self-government. Though the legal acts establish the status of municipal management as a part of local self-government, it’s not being a part of the system of public authorities and connection to direct participation of population, development of municipal management in Russia is influenced by the ideological factor at the level of the liberal, conservative, and populist ideologemes. The research results show that the liberal model of municipal management was corrected in favor of “smart conservatism”, which reflects the social and managerial realis of the Russian society. The authors come to the conclusion that in the current situation the ideological factor plays a significant role in improving the quality of municipal management, has the role of a “filter” on the path of quick organizational innovations in the system of municipal management, which is connected to increase of the risks of populism as anti-system ideology and limited usage of the liberal model of municipal management as municipal corporation.

Keywords:

Municipal Management , Local Self-Government , Quality , Liberal Model of Management , Conservative Model of Management , Ideological Factor , Populism