III Moscow International Political Science Forum "Politics, Power, Communications, Technologies. Modern challenges"

The 3rd Moscow International Political Science Forum "Politics, Power, Communications, and Technology. Modern Challenges" was held at the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA)

The section "Public Administration in the 21st century" presented reports on the theory and practice of public administration, the relationship between them, the current state and trends in the development of public and municipal administration as a field of science. International Laboratory for Digital Transformation in Public Administration Research Assistant Ivan Makarov spoke on the topic "The problem of multicollinearity in the indicative analysis of the quality of public administration." During the presentation, he presented the concept of his PhD thesis. From the point of view of an indicative approach to public administration, I. Makarov considers the problem of strong correlations between some of the existing indicators used to assess the quality of public administration. The simultaneous use of highly correlated indicators as formally uncorrelated assessments of various aspects of the quality of public administration can lead to repeated consideration of the characteristics reflected from various sides by correlating indicators, giving some of them excessive importance and distorting the results of the analysis. The result of this may be an incorrect assessment of the situation and the adoption of suboptimal decisions. The use of the principal component method makes it possible to combine correlating indicators into non-correlating indices, each of which can serve as an assessment of one of the key characteristics of the quality of public administration reflected by various baseline indicators. The application of the principal component method to the Worldwide Governance Indicators published by the World Bank was an example I.Makarov used.

During the discussion of the report with the conference participants, were questions about the preference of using correlating or uncorrelated indicators to solve various problems in the framework of indicative analysis in the field of public administration and about the specifics of the methodology for calculating the mentioned Global Indicators of Public Administration. I. Makarov also participated in the discussion of which of the theories and models of public administration currently have the greatest practical applicability in the practice of public administration, pointed out the practical value of approaches to public administration based on the use of data.