Problems of Efficiency of Modern Social State: Global and Russian Trends

The article describes the current trends of the social state by Russian and foreign experience. The purpose of the article is to determine the range of the most important problems of the effectiveness of the modern social state, due to the fact that in modern society everywhere there is a modification of the social state in the direction of its privatization, reducing the participation of public authorities and more active participation of civil society institutions. The use of anthropological methodology allowed to reveal axiological aspects of the problem, comparative methodology - comparative analysis of the ways of social processes management. Also, in the study of the dynamics of the processes, we used the system and historical methodologies. The determinant of the actual model of the social state for Russia was the demographic situation provoked by the ‘demographic pit’ of the 1990s and caused by the reduction of the able-bodied population, the absence of the middle class, the emergence of the ‘working poor’ and the increase in the retirement age population. The implementation of the welfare state in the USSR received a boost in its development in the West, the incarnation was superior to the Soviet counterparts but were perverted neo-libertarianism promises.

In conclusion, it is proposed to improve the Russian tax legislative framework through the reception of positive experience of foreign countries for donors of the social state in various fields of application of the social state. Particular attention is paid to the realisation of the right to secondary and higher professional education by children from low-income families because children are a strategic labour resource for any state. This problem is global, and there is currently no optimal legislative and practical solution, both in the West and in Russia. 

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