Patron-client relations in the system of public authorities of Russia

Abstract

In the Russian legal system, the phenomenon of favoritism in the public service system is given extremely little attention. In legal science, there is an opinion about the illegality of this phenomenon and its negative impact on society and the state. Without denying this statement, the author, nevertheless, tried to consider it from different sides and to identify, in addition to the negative, also the positive qualities of favoritism. Only some cases of favoritism in cases of granting property benefits are covered by corruption relations; in other cases, it falls out of legislative prohibitions and restrictions. It is very difficult to prove the identification of non-formal relations between the manager and his protege, the influence of deviation from formal rules on the effectiveness of management as a whole. The objectives of the study were to analyze the positive and negative aspects of management in the system of patron-client relations among the management level of employees of public management bodies. The author presents standard forms of influence on subordinates in order to release their positions for people close to the new head, suggests directions for improving the legislation on the conduct of state and municipal service. When preparing the article, the methods of formal logic were used-comparison, description, classification, analysis, synthesis, etc., which allowed us to characterize the existing system of appointment to positions of state employees. Among the private scientific methods, the formal-legal method used in the analysis of the power positions of officials was used; the logical-legal method, through which the content of legal norms in relation to the problem under consideration was investigated; specifically, the sociological method used in the analysis of statistical data related to the problems of the study. In conclusion, the author draws conclusions about the effectiveness of the activity of the authority in the presence of the head's favorites, suggests ways to improve the legislation regarding the legal relations under consideration.