Evaluation of the strategic social and economic policy of the region: methodological approach

Strategic planning of social and economic development of regions assumes systematic decisions, including formatting of documents, developing a mechanism for implementation and assessing achievements of the target priorities, relevant for the Russian Federation constituent. The authors proposed a concept for evaluation of the strategic social and economic policy of the region, which allows taking into account the particularities of transmission of the regional strategic priorities to the level of practical measures. A real qualitative progress in the direction of implementation of regional strategies is ensured by using the principles of continuity and contingency of long-term, medium-term and operational decisions of the authorities in a “corridor” of the planned development indicators in public administration; a quantitatively balanced decomposition of task indicators and program measures, permanent monitoring of executive and managerial performance of state structures. Approbation of the author's approach to evaluation of regional policy based on the strategic planning documents of the Chelyabinsk region, as well as the current activities of the authorities in its implementation over the period of 2005-2017 allowed determining the problem field and identify shortcomings in the system of evaluation of real results of policy measures, deviations and inconsistency in prioritization, which at other equal conditions is a consequence of violations of the integrity of the implementation mechanism of the long-term social and economic policy, the principle of complementarity of operational, medium-term and strategic priorities, the systematic nature of the method of evaluation of the strategic policy for regional development.