Effectiveness and Efficiency of Public Management of Socio-economic Processes at the City Level

The purpose of the work is to develop theoretical and methodological foundations for provision of high effectiveness and efficiency of public management of socio-economic processes at the city level and to analyze practical aspects of their application by the example of modern city of Volgograd (Russia). Methodological instrumentarium of the paper includes specially developed proprietary methodology of determination of the level and current state of effectiveness and public management of socio-economic processes at the city level. The authors developed the model of effective public management of socio-economic processes at the city level, in which main tools of management of socio-economic processes of a city are tax policy at the city level, anti-monopoly policy, fighting against inflation at the city level, fighting against unemployment at the city level, investment policy, stimulation of entrepreneurship, and development of the system of electronic provision of state services. Approbation of the developed methodology of determination of the level and current state of effectiveness and efficiency of public management of socio-economic processes at the city level by the example of Volgograd allowed proving its practical application. As a result, the authors came to the conclusion that perspectives of increase of effectiveness of public management of socio-economic processes at the level of Volgograd are related to increase of anti-inflation measures, change of approach to accounting of the unemployed, active support for population employment, and increase of effectiveness of anti-monopoly and social policy.