Quality of life as an indicator of the effectiveness of public administration

The article discusses theoretical approaches to understanding the quality of life of the population from a sociological point of view. The features of the concept of the perceived quality of life, structural-functional and socio-economic approaches to its assessment are revealed. The possibilities and limitations of these approaches for the study of the quality of life are highlighted. The effectiveness of the public administration system in modern society requires taking into account the opinion of the population about the quality of life. The foundations of the new approach to the analysis of social processes were laid by the scientific achievements of the 60s of the last century. The dominant paradigm was the economic goals and parameters of statistically measured national income, household income, wages and their differentiation. The information society, the changing nature of work and other features of the new stage of development created the prerequisites for a comprehensive consideration of social values, taking into account the population’s requests for adequate working and living conditions, moving away from dry, usually average criteria of life circumstances to the study of the citizens’ attitudes and feelings to socially acceptable standards of life. The environmental risks that threaten the future of civilization were identified and analyzed in the 70s of the XX century. The production contradiction, which raised the question of measuring the quality of life in a new way, was articulated. The economic component (economic growth) replaced with the welfare parameter. The sustainable development, including the indicators of well-being, the fight against poverty, and the environment were declared to be the goals of the society. The tasks of monitoring the solution of these problems are solved by sociological research, whose mathematical formalization can become a structural element of economic and mathematical modeling of social processes. Based on empirical data from a sociological study conducted in April and May 2019, the article analyzes the structure of socio-economic and perceived parameters of quality of life.

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