Measuring development trends in the social potential of a region (by a case study of the Republic of Bashkortostan)

The study presents a measuring technique for the development of the social potential of territorial entities based on the key indicators used to assess the intellectual, social and demographic, labor, innovation and cultural potentials of the society. The author provides a comprehensive analysis of the social potential development in the Republic of Bashkortostan and other regions of the Volga Federal District, which makes it possible to determine the key points that should be a focus of the above-mentioned group of territorial entities. Besides, the research considers the coefficients of variation from the established development standards of the social potential that demonstrate a wide range of unused social and economic resources today. The author concludes that the social potential is ineffectively fulfilled at the federal level and, consequently, at the regional one.