The Problems of Ensuring the Quality of Experts’ Work: the Case of Media Content Evaluation in the Russian Federation

The paper deals with the problems of ensuring the quality of expert’s activities which results are used in public administration. As a case, one type of expert evaluation is examined. This type has appeared about six years ago, according to the Federal Law No. 436-FZ On Protecting Children from Info...

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Autor principal:	Yulia Krasheninnikova
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Publicado:	North-West institute of management of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration 2019
Materias:	experts age ratings age classification system children media safety media quality control Political institutions and public administration (General) JF20-2112
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:cd63709b81114db18add197194ebf8672021-11-12T10:46:09ZThe Problems of Ensuring the Quality of Experts’ Work: the Case of Media Content Evaluation in the Russian Federation1726-11391816-8590https://doaj.org/article/cd63709b81114db18add197194ebf8672019-05-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.acjournal.ru/jour/article/view/957https://doaj.org/toc/1726-1139https://doaj.org/toc/1816-8590The paper deals with the problems of ensuring the quality of expert’s activities which results are used in public administration. As a case, one type of expert evaluation is examined. This type has appeared about six years ago, according to the Federal Law No. 436-FZ On Protecting Children from Information Harmful to Their Health and Development, with the purpose to assess the age rating of media content in difficult or disputable cases. The research focuses on two topics: what errors and abuses happen in the practice of expert evaluations; how the procedures of quality ensuring work. Empirical data for analysis include the texts of expert evaluations over the period 2013-2017 years (N 105) and semi-structured interviews with accredited experts (N 10). It was revealed that the quality of expert evaluations is diverse and in some cases is far from satisfactory. Some evaluations can be questioned because of their noncompliance with the law and formal criteria of academic papers. Meanwhile, obvious procedures to ensure quality are not designed in the law or exist but do not actually work. The results of evaluations of similar products differ from each other because of the absence of common methods, common theoretical ground, and unified format of evaluation. The government control of the experts’ work quality and the self-regulation of expert community are very weak. Those circumstances create conditions for distorted attitude of stakeholders to expert evaluation: not as a supplement tool for enforcement of the law on children media safety but as self-sufficient instrument of private interest protection and influence on media.Yulia KrasheninnikovaNorth-West institute of management of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration articleexpertsage ratingsage classification systemchildren media safetymediaquality controlPolitical institutions and public administration (General)JF20-2112ENRUУправленческое консультирование, Vol 0, Iss 3 (2019)
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description	The paper deals with the problems of ensuring the quality of expert’s activities which results are used in public administration. As a case, one type of expert evaluation is examined. This type has appeared about six years ago, according to the Federal Law No. 436-FZ On Protecting Children from Information Harmful to Their Health and Development, with the purpose to assess the age rating of media content in difficult or disputable cases. The research focuses on two topics: what errors and abuses happen in the practice of expert evaluations; how the procedures of quality ensuring work. Empirical data for analysis include the texts of expert evaluations over the period 2013-2017 years (N 105) and semi-structured interviews with accredited experts (N 10). It was revealed that the quality of expert evaluations is diverse and in some cases is far from satisfactory. Some evaluations can be questioned because of their noncompliance with the law and formal criteria of academic papers. Meanwhile, obvious procedures to ensure quality are not designed in the law or exist but do not actually work. The results of evaluations of similar products differ from each other because of the absence of common methods, common theoretical ground, and unified format of evaluation. The government control of the experts’ work quality and the self-regulation of expert community are very weak. Those circumstances create conditions for distorted attitude of stakeholders to expert evaluation: not as a supplement tool for enforcement of the law on children media safety but as self-sufficient instrument of private interest protection and influence on media.
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title	The Problems of Ensuring the Quality of Experts’ Work: the Case of Media Content Evaluation in the Russian Federation
title_short	The Problems of Ensuring the Quality of Experts’ Work: the Case of Media Content Evaluation in the Russian Federation
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The Problems of Ensuring the Quality of Experts’ Work: the Case of Media Content Evaluation in the Russian Federation

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