Issue ? 52. October 2015

Regional State Youth Policy: Problems and Prospect

Pavel A. Merkulov — Ph.D., Associate Professor, director, Orel Branch, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, Orel, Russian Federation.
E-mail: merkulov-pa@ranepa.ru

Anatoly L. Yeliseyev — Ph.D., Associate Professor, deputy director, Orel Branch, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, Orel, Russian Federation.
E-mail: eliseev@orel.ranepa.ru

The article considers the problems and prospects of realization of the state youth policy at the regional level. The article emphasizes the role of youth public associations as subjects of regional youth policy and provides a framework for the formation of youth associations as institutional structures. The authors pay specific attention to functioning of youth public associations in modern Russia.
The authors generalize problems of differentiation of regional financing of youth policy. Problems of realization of the state youth policy are systematized. The major factors constraining the development of youth as a participant in the formation and realization of regional youth policy are examined.

Keywords

Youth associations, the state youth policy, social youth movements, youth business, state institutes in the sphere of youth policy.