Government and the bureaucracy

"Government and the bureaucracy" (by Victor Makarenko) analyzes the state o f research done by sociologists and political scientists in the above field . Issues are indicated which need a particular attention of scholars: myth of indivisibility of politics and governance, typology of governing activit ies, bureaucratic quasipolitics, legal and extra-legal interaction between interest group and bureaucracies. A hypothesis is formulated regarding the social and political interest group attitude to power and government appara tus of contemporary Russia. The importance of studying links of varying ver sions of "new ideology" with differing levels of bureaucracies in the capit al and in the regions is emphasized.