Humanities & Social Sciences 2 (2016 9) 501-509 ~ ~ ~ УДК 343.35 Specifi c Indicators of the Government Bodies’ ctivities Effectiveness as an Element of the Mechanism for Fighting Corruption Daria A. Andreeva* International Banking Institute 60 Nevsky Pr., St. Petersburg, 191023, Russia Received 24.11.2015, received in revised form 08.12.2015, accepted 14.01.2016 The research paper presents the analysis of methodology for assessing the effectiveness of activities of the executive authorities of the Russian Federation exemplifi ed by activity of the Committee for Social Policy of St. Petersburg. <...> The key performance indicators of the civil servants’ activity from the Committee for Social Policy of St. Petersburg, proposed by the author, allow evaluating the effectiveness of the civil servant’s activity. <...> Corruption prevention is closely connected with the necessity to improve the effectiveness of the executive authorities’ activity. <...> The major purpose of all the extensive reforms in the sphere of civil service conducted for the last 20 years both abroad and in Russia has been to increase the effectiveness of the executive bodies’ activities and the quality of their functions and public services provided. <...> Initiating numerous criminal cases, the Investigative Committee of the Daria A. Andreeva. <...> Specifi c Indicators of the Government Bodies’ Activities Effectiveness as an Element… Russian Federation only removes the symptoms (Korruptsionnye…, 2015). <...> New, more informed and disingenuous offi cials come after those, who were subjected to punishment. <...> Changes in that framework activities as well legislation and statutory regulate as the authorities’ reducing the number of offi cials will not eradicate the problem. <...> According to G. Malenkov’s words: “Offi cials are like jackdaws on wires. <...> When scared away, they would fl y up, around and sit down on other wires.” We need an effective system of control and reporting on the activities conducted not only of a particular government agency on the whole, but every department and every employee as well. <...> The methodology of the public service institutional environment evaluation was the subject of study conducted by the World Bank (Based on the…, 2000). <...> The necessity to develop a system of indicators and criteria for assessing the performance of executive bodies and their offi cials is obvious. <...> The author proposes a system of assessment exemplifi ed by the activity of the Committee for Social Policy of St. <...>