Interaction of Public Authorities in Strategic Planning

Abstract

The relevance of the paper is determined by the authors’ intentions to solve the problems of national economic strategy to a greater extent than issues of purely academic interest, since the effectiveness of domestic strategic planning, despite the efforts actively made to organize this process, including in terms of legal regulation, is clearly insufficient. The principal method of research is the comparison of existing legislative provisions with each other, with elements of foreign experience and with the actual state of things, and their linking into a single logic. The authors analyzed system and tactical problems of the strategic planning and management, considering the involvement of public authorities in this process. System problems include the absence of both a hierarchy of documents and an analytical planning entity of high capacity, as well as a lack of performers’ competencies. Tactical problems include the unsatisfactory state of affairs at the municipal level and the overload of the strategic planning system of inferior quality documents. The primary task of the study is to determine the fundamental ways to resolve systemic and tactical problems. Separately, the authors highlight an importance of introducing the public authority legal category that is going to synchronize strategies of all its levels in the future. Based on the analysis of the internal logic of the development of a strategic planning and management system, as well as the best practices of foreign experience, the authors conclude that the state system of strategic audit. According to the results of the study, this system is inadequate to the tasks of effective implementation of the state strategy. Also, the authors concluded the need for digitalization of strategic planning to reconstruct existing connections, methods of interaction and the use of new, informational analysis methods. The practical significance of the research is determined by the possibility of applying the authors’ recommendations being in the normative regulation of the process of domestic strategic planning and management.