Public-private partnership in the market of social services in terms of social entrepreneurship development: problems of the legal regulation harmonization

Introduction: problems of improving legal regulation of public-private partnership in the market of social services are researched in the article in terms of the development of social en-trepreneurship. Purpose: to assess the efficiency of the application of the Russian legislation regulations on public-private partnership aimed at ensuring competition in the market of social services and also their compliance with universal tendencies of the economy and law socialization. Methods: empirical methods of comparison, description and interpretation; theoretical methods of formal and dialectical logic; specific scientific methods: legal dogmatic method and method of legal norm interpretation. Results: it is revealed that the public-private partnership model legalized at the federal level in Russia does not entirely take into account foreign law-enforcement experience of solving social problems and does not help to reveal mighty potential of this tool in the social sphere, first of all, in the market of social services. Privatization of the market of state services by means of the mechanism of public-private partnership must be assisted by the implementation of principles of social justice, by ensuring the competition in the market of social services and by fixing the priority of a social effect over economic. Conclusions: taking into account the best foreign law-enforcement practices, the development and enhancement of the legislation on public-private partnership should be directed to values of social entrepreneurship, which is not profit-oriented, but provides the priority of a social effect over economic. The real possibility to solve or smooth specific social problems shall become a criterion of social efficiency of the draft agreement on public-private partnership. At the same time the assistance to people who are in a difficult life situation should be regarded as a priority criterion of social efficiency of the draft agreement.