Obolonsky, Alexander Valentinovich

He graduated from the law faculty of Moscow State University ( 1963 ). Candidate of Law ( 1974 ; topic of the dissertation: “Problems of systematic research of the socio-cultural branch of management (methodological aspects)”), Doctor of Law ( 1988 ; topic of the dissertation: “Man and public administration (state science aspect)”). Professor.

Chief Researcher, Institute of State and Law, Russian Academy of Sciences. He worked as the leader of a group of experts on public service reform under the Presidential Commission on Administrative Reform ( 1997 - 1998 ), gave lectures on comparative civil service and political ethics at the Faculty of Public Administration of Moscow State University. M.V. Lomonosov (1998-2001). He also taught at the Academy of National Economy under the Government of Russia, other higher educational institutions, in continuing education courses for senior employees of the state apparatus. Fellow of the international Fulbright program.

Professor of the Department of State and Municipal Service of the State University - Higher School of Economics (SU-HSE). He held the post of Deputy Dean of the Faculty of State and Municipal Administration of the Higher School of Economics - HSE until the summer of 2010. He conducts training courses “Reforming the civil service of the Russian Federation”, “Public service: theories and countries”, “Reforming the civil service” (in the magistracy).

Professional interests: public administration, public service, theory and history of state and law, political science, political morality, psychology.

Developed a fundamentally new concept of public public service. As a researcher in public administration, pays great attention to the problems of relations between man and the state, he believes that “it is a person in a wide variety of his activities, in many different manifestations of his personality that is the center, the main link in the system of public administration of society and the state”. He is engaged in the study of ethical and legal aspects of politics and management.

The author of the concept of the historical evolution of state power in Russia, based on the opposition of systemocentrism and personocentrism as two “ideal types” of historical development. Under person-centrism, the highest point, the “measure” of all things, is the individual, his main feature is “recognition of the uniqueness of the spiritual essence, autonomy and self-worth of each person. The value of a person is not reduced to his place, function in social, natural or other systems. ” With systemocentrism, a person is either not taken into account at all, or is considered as an auxiliary factor that can bring more or less benefit only for achieving transpersonal goals. The essence of this system of values ​​is “in dissolving the human“ I ”in the interests of the Empire, the Royal Person, Cult, Custom, Ideology ... The individual in these constructions is always a means and never an end.” Vivid examples of the system-centered tradition in Russia are considered by the reign of Ivan the Terrible , Peter I , the Bolsheviks .

• Methodology of a systematic study of public administration problems M., 1978 (co-authored).
• Man and government. M., 1987.
• Drama of Russian political history: a system against personality. M., 1994.
• Bureaucracy and the state, M., 1996.
• Public service: an integrated approach. M., 2000 (executive editor).
• Bureaucracy for the 21st century? Civil service models: Russia, USA, England, Australia. M., 2002.
• Man and power. Crossroads of Russian history. M., 2002.
• The Drama of Russian Political History. Texas, A&M University Press, 2003.
• Reform of public service in Russia. History of reform efforts from 1992 to 2000. M., 2003 (co-authored)
• Reform of the public service of the Russian Federation (2000-2003). M., 2006 (co-authored).
• Morality and law in politics and management. M., 2006.
• Public service: an integrated approach. M. 2009. (executive editor and principal author).
• The crisis of the bureaucratic state. Civil Service Reforms: International Experience and Russian Realities. M., 2011.
• Ethics of the public sphere and the realities of political life. M., 2016.
• "Special way" of the country: myths and reality. M. 2018 (general edition and first chapter).

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