Governance Under Conditions of Uncertainty

... of bureaucracy, that is, of an explicit, norm-based and rational system of governance. The declared objective of the second stage of the administrative reform in Russia (2006-2010) was standardization. Did this help to radically improve the system of governance? In our opinion, the return of bureaucracy has been a rash response by the state governance system to an increasingly uncertain situation. Norms as an instrument of governance also previously led to failures, while today they contradict wider dynamics of public life. The greater the ...