Elena V. Frolova

Municipal-Private Partnership in Education: Infrastructural Aspect

The article considers the specifics of implementation of municipal-private partnership projects in the education system of the Russian Federation. The authors use the following research methods: document analysis, expert interviews (heads of local authorities, entrepreneurs from the Moscow Oblast). The goal of this article is to study specific features of public-private partnership in education, to carry out comparative analysis of the estimates that the heads of local authorities and the business community have with regard to these issues, to define the conditions for their effective interaction and its limiting factors. Attracting private investment in the development of the education system is limited by a narrow pragmatic focus of the government on the use of financial resources of business in municipal administration practice. Judging by the results of studies, the heads of local authorities understand the Elena Viktorovna FROLOVA Doctor of Sociology Russian State Social University 4, Wilhelm Pieck Street, Moscow, 129226, Russian Federation efrolova06@mail.ru Ol’ga Vladimirovna ROGACH Ph.D. in Sociology Russian State Social University 4, Wilhelm Pieck Street, Moscow, 129226, Russian Federation rogach16@mail.ru