Institutional conditions of modern administrative reforms in China and Russia: cultural and economic aspects

The article describes the features of the cultural and economic institutional conditions of administrative reforms in the spirit of Western management models New Public Management and Good Governance in China and Russia. In the cultural aspect values and traditions, level of civil society development and state of human rights in both countries are estimated. In the economic aspect scale of state regulation of economic sphere and level of commercial sector development are analyzed. Results of the research showed that the biggest problems in the implementation of administrative reforms can be caused by cultural differences between China and Russia, on the one hand, and the countries of the Western world, on the other. In both countries civil society is not sustainable in the Western sense, and the lengthy administrative tradition is absent. Regarding the economic institutional environment in China and Russia, we can’t say that it favors or hinders the import of the “ideal” Western management model. A number of parameters, such as a large degree of state regulation, contribute to the successful borrowing of Good Governance model. Such parameters of the economic institutional environment, as insufficiently mature commercial sector and a whole range of socio-economic problems, on the contrary, prevent the import of the New Public Management model in terms of the full participation of business and society in the provision of services and management of the state.