Interaction Between Government and Ngos in Russia: a Value Dimension
https://doi.org/10.22394/1726-1139-2025-1-14-22
EDN: HCDPWU
Abstract
The relevance of the topic of the article is determined by the need to revise, within the framework of domestic political science, the liberal paradigm of the relationship between the state and non-governmental non-profit organizations (hereinafter: NPOs), in order to fill the publicpolitical space of government-public interaction with the values of constructive, constructive cooperation. Comparative, historical, and descriptive methods were used. The following results were obtained. The author identifies and characterizes the reason that reduces the validity of the “gardener state” model, popular in modern political science, according to which the government creates all conditions for supporting civil initiatives, developing and scaling technologies of intersectoral social partnership, while not interfering in the evolution of NGOs, providing full freedom of their activities. Such a reason for the ineffectiveness of the “gardener state” model is the de–ideologized liberalism of the late twentieth century, which leveled the role of the state in initiating, developing and implementing policies to support and regulate the third sector, including the ideological and value content of public-state interaction. Using concrete examples, it is argued that attempts to transfer the model of the “gardener state” to an illiberal type of democracy have contributed to the emergence and intensification of crises and imbalances in the development of both non-profit sector organizations and national political systems. It is proved that the underlying reason for the sharp tightening of Russia’s state policy towards NGOs in the 2000s and 2010s was the conflict of values between ultra-liberal public organizations and the government in the 1990s. As a result, the need for modern political science and practice to adjust the model of the “gardener” state in terms of strengthening the goal–setting, ideological function of the state in relation to NGOs is argued. The introduction of the concept of values management for NGOs is considered to be the primary stage in the constructivization of government-public interaction in the public-political sphere.
About the Author
Yu. V. Batalova
Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration under the President of the Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Yulia V. Batalova, Dissertation Defense Organization Department of Postgraduate and Doctoral Studies Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration under the President of the Russian Federation, Candidate of Political Sciences, Associate Professor
Moscow
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Batalova Yu.V. Interaction Between Government and Ngos in Russia: a Value Dimension. Administrative Consulting. 2025;(1):14-22. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.22394/1726-1139-2025-1-14-22. EDN: HCDPWU
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