THE TASKS OF THE NEW POLITICAL ANALYTICS

Abstract

Since the first third of the twentieth century, most countries of the world have resorted to the help of analytical groups engaged in research, monitoring and expert assessment of various processes and events taking place in the country, society and abroad. In the future, this activity gradually began to include permanent collection and processing of information, the creation of multidisciplinary information bases, conducting sociological research, forecasting future events in the field of politics, economics and social life. Today, entire institutions are already working in this direction, but they cannot cope with the continuous flow of information. Meanwhile, in the context of the expanding information revolution, the acceleration of global political processes and the inclusion of new peoples and states in them, accurate and timely information helps to create conditions for making the right decisions. This is especially important at a time when there is a radical transformation of human living conditions: rapid growth and changes, from which their understanding clearly lags behind. At the same time, there is a rapid development of communication and information systems, the expansion of material and spiritual opportunities for personal development, the growth of individualism, the destruction of traditional social ties, generally called the process of globalization. The so-called "Think Tanks" implement original research aimed at educating and influencing politicians and opinion makers on a wide range of economic, social, political, environmental and security issues. In addition, they influence the goals and values of society and the people as a whole. Given their influence on socio-political, economic and other processes, Think Tanks can be ranked as the "fifth power" after the legislative, executive, judicial and media. Along with the traditional form of organization of analytical work, usually located under the head of the country, a new analytics began to emerge in parallel with a decentralized form of organization, the opposite of the hardware structure, usually limited by coordinating bodies. It cannot be said that this was a duplication of the work of government analytics structures, because, firstly, a new channel for obtaining information was formed, which drew attention to facts and events that usually escape the attention of government agencies, and secondly, it created the opportunity to correlate information coming from two different sources. For the new analytics, which is an independent private enterprise, the speed of delivery of its materials to the consumer is of great importance. In the extreme case, this means a permanent desire to adhere to the rule: "obtaining the most important information by the most influential person of the state in the shortest possible time."