The status of civil society and public affairs in Russian federal subjects: indexes, regional specifics and inter-regional comparisons
The majority of studies, devoted to the problem of the Russian civil society development, is based on tactful (nonquantitative) methods or on general public opinion sweeps. Sometimes they use aggregate models of the civil society condition. Both of assessments are of some theoretical interest, but they are rarely useful during the decision making at country or region level. Therefore we have made effects to develop tools for assessing important aspects of the civil society and public affairs. In the article one can find the effects of applying these tools in 2009.