Research
Fundamental and applied research is mainly focused on administrative reforms in Russia and relevant problems (modernization of local administrations, civil service reforms in territorial subjects of the Russian Federation, local government reforms in the Volga Region Federal District, modernization of personnel departments as a part of regional civil service reforms). The Institute works in close collaboration with the government and civil society institutions. In the frames of this collaboration, it carries out the expertise of federal and regional acts, monitors public opinion on different aspects of social and political activities in the Saratov region, and delivers advisory service to the Saratov region Government, the Chief Federal Inspector in the Saratov region and local authorities upon their requests.
Postgraduate education
Postgraduate studies
Full-time studies – 3 years
Correspondence studies – 4 years
Majors in:
• Process Automation and Operations Management
• Economic Theory
• Economics and National Economy Management: Theory of Economic Systems Management
• Public Finance, Currency and Credit
• Ontology and Epistemology
• Social Philosophy
• Constitutional Law, Municipal Law
• Natural Resource Management, Agricultural Law, Environmental Law
• Criminal Law and Criminology; Penal Law
• Administrative Law, Financial Law, Information Law
• Theory and Methods of Professional Education
• Theory, Methods and History of Sociology
• Social Structure, Institutions and Processes
• Sociology of Management
• Political Institutions, Political and Ethnic Conflict Resolution, National and Political Processes
Doctorate studies
Majors in:
Social structure, institutions and processes
Sociology of management
Duration: 3 years
The Institute
hosts two councils on defense of candidate and doctoral dissertations in social sciences (Political Institutions, Political and Ethnic Conflict Resolution, National and Political Processes and Technologies) and in the theory of managing economic systems and economics of labor (Economics and National Economy Management).