The New Quality of Life as a Trend of Social Development: The Experience of the Bryansk Region

Abstract

Ensuring a new quality of life is one of the most debated issues in modern management science and practice of public administration. The article's research object is social indicators that characterise the quality of life in a particular region of the Russian Federation – the Bryansk region. The authors of the article set themselves the task of analysing whether it is possible to assert that the quality of life in the Bryansk region has reached a level that can be described as "new quality of life", as well as the legality of using this concept – "new quality of life" in strategic planning documents at the state level. The authors come to the following conclusions: a) at this time, the concept of "new quality of life" has not yet been conceptualised, which indicates that it is undesirable to use it in the preparation of strategic planning documents; b) for the Bryansk region at this stage of development, indicators of a new quality of life have not yet been achieved, although the region has certain resources for such achievement.