No 3 (2015)

Lately Russian agriculture has convincingly demonstrated the ability to develop even in difficult conditions, when other industries showed notable growth. This article analyzes the peculiarities of public-private partnership (PPP) in the sector of dairy production of agriculture by the example of Tyumen region. Authors emphasize the importance of state programs of agricultural development. Also, authors examine the proven and promising directions and forms of PPP development in the sphere of milk production and dairy products.

The article cosiders the possibility of estimating the economic security of Moscow-city in its transport component. Expounds the approach to the assessment, which is based on the cumulative effect of investment risks: economic, social and financial, when you create a transport appropriate share of gross value added of the megapolis. The author emphasizes that there is no approach to determine the effects of low investment on economic security. The article deals with the author's method of evaluation of the provision of economic security of Moscow, which is due to its transport component focused on the integral indicator which contains both economic and social effect of transport. The author concludes that the proposed methodology provides the ability to track the level of effectiveness of programme activities for creating conditions for sustainable development of Moscow.

Governments and its officials today face increasing pressure to innovate. But often the reforms and policies proposed are formulated under conditions of limited knowledge. This bounded rationality may foster policy innovation, but in many cases public officials instead may seek to learn from other jurisdictions in the formulation of their policy options. This paper examines how governments learn, innovate, and make decisions. Using the United States as an example, this article contends: 1) There is often a significant gap between social science and scientific knowledge and the information governments use in making policy; 2) That in many cases public officials lack the capacity to digest appropriate information when making policy; and 3) That government decision making under the conditions of bounded rationality often produces less innovation and more similarly in terms of policy responses. Overall, the article will generalize from the experience of the United States to indicate the implications for other nation states as they seek to formulate policies and learn from one another in global political-economic system.

The review examines a monograph, written by Gubaeva and Takazov M.F. Authors of monograph analyze the problems of determining the place and role of institutions of traditional society in the life on Northern Caucasia at the present stage, as well as social transformations in a traditional society under the impact of processes of social modernization. The authors investigate the problems revealed in the monograph from positions of socio-cultural approach and on the basis of extensive factual material.