Strategic planning in Russia: opportunity and necessity of the application of foreign experience

Experience of strategic planning in the system of public administration of the advanced countries is generalized, opportunities are estimated and conditions of its application in the Russian Federation are concretized. As an object of a research the systems of strategic planning of the USA, France and Japan which are flexibly combining the state central planning and mechanisms of market self-regulation in the course of providing conditions of sustainable social and economic development are chosen. It is proved that a condition of creation of effective system of strategic planning is involvement in process of her creation of all key interested parties, first of all, of business community and the population represented by bodies of the regional power and management. Positive experience of strategic planning of the USSR and the developed foreign countries demonstrates that the most important institutional prerequisite of successful implementation of strategic programs and plans is the strong role of the state in economy...