Legal features of the provision of social support measures in the context of digital platforms introduction into public administration: Russian and foreign experience

Abstract

The relevance of the work theme is due to the high importance of public relations in the field of state social policy. The ongoing digitalization of public administration as a global trend also affects the sphere of social support, which causes the transformation of social services provided by the state, the modernization of the process of interaction between power struc-tures and the population through the use of digital platforms. The purpose of the research is to consider certain legal and organizational features of this process realization in Russia and foreign countries. The methodological basis of the research includes dialectical method, which allowed us to examine digitalization and the social sphere of public administration as influencing each other and dynamically developing phenomena; analysis and synthesis, through which the main features of the digital transformation of public ser-vices are characterized; the comparative legal method, through which the approaches to the organization and regulation of the process of introducing digital platforms in the process of providing of social support measures are considered. In the course of studying this topic, we pay special attention to the formal legal method in order to describe and explain the legal regulation of the social security sphere, as well as the digitalization of public admini-stration. Based on the conducted research and taking into account foreign experience, we conclude that the need for further modernization of the social s system in Russia in the conditions of digitalization in part of solving the identified organizational and legal issues.