RUDN Journal of Public AdministrationRUDN Journal of Public AdministrationВестник Российского университета дружбы народов. Серия: Государственное и муниципальное управление2312-83132411-1228Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumumba (RUDN University)1688610.22363/2312-8313-2017-4-2-180-201Foreign Experience of Public AdministrationЗарубежный опыт государственного управленияResearch ArticleREGIONAL DISPARITIES IN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: LESSONS LEARNED FROM THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICAРЕГИОНАЛЬНЫЕ ДИСПРОПОРЦИИ В ЭКОНОМИЧЕСКОМ РАЗВИТИИ: ОПЫТ СОЕДИНЕННЫХ ШТАТОВ АМЕРИКИSchultzDШультцДэвидШультц Дэвид - профессор кафедры политических наук Университета Хэмлин (Миннесота, США), главный редактор журнала Public Affairs Education (JPAE).dschultz@hamline.eduHamline UniversityУниверситет Хэмлин1512201742VOL 4, NO2 (2017)ТОМ 4, №2 (2017)18020108102017Copyright ©; 2017, Schultz D.Copyright ©; 2017, Шультц Д.2017Schultz D.Шультц Д.http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0https://journals.rudn.ru/public-administration/article/view/16886Economic development is not geo-politically uniform. There is a geographic component that leaves some regions within the world or some parts of a country, including the Russian Federation, more economically developed that others. This article examines uneven economic development in the USA as a case study. Specifi cally, this article defi nes what is meant by uneven development, as well as documents the pattern of uneven development in the United States. The article also looks at the causes and consequences of uneven development and discusses some possible remedies. Overall the conclusion is that the USA experiences a signifi cant geographic component to its economic development and it is not clear that the policies it has undertaken, if at all, have been successful to abating, slowing down, or reversing uneven development.Экономическое развитие не является однородным в геополитическом аспекте. Есть географическая составляющая, которая оказывает сильное влияние на развитие в неко-торых регионах мира и в разных частях страны, включая Российскую Федерацию, делая одни регионы более экономически развитыми, чем другие. В данной статье в качестве примера рассматривается неравномерное экономическое развитие в США. В частно-сти, данная статья определяет, что понимается под неравномерностью развития, а также в статье описывается закономерность неравномерного развития в Соединенных Шта-тах. В статье также рассматриваются причины и последствия неравномерного развития и рассмотрены некоторые возможные решения выявленных проблем. Общий вывод за-ключается в том, что США испытывает значительное влияние географической состав-ляющей на ее экономическое развитие. 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