Rostovskaya T.K., Kuchmaeva O.V., Vasileva E.N. Institutional mechanisms for a model of effective family-demographic policy. RUDN Journal of Sociology. 2026. Vol. 26. No. 1. Pp. 234-248. DOI: 10.22363 ...

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Abstract

Maintaining demographic potential is one of the basic components of national demographic security. To achieve this goal, the state should solve many tasks among which the most relevant are strengthening the family, increasing the birth rate and developing motivation for having many children. The Russian Federation has strategically outlined the course of state policy to preserve traditional family values and has developed the relevant legislation. The year 2024, declared by the President of Russia as the Year of the Family, made it possible to emphasize at the national level the importance of the family institution and support for the prosperous large family as a significant model for solving demographic problems: such a model was declared in 2007 in the Concept of the State Policy in relation to Young Families; in general, the status of the large family has raised and institutionalized. The authors assess prospects for applying the program- targeted approach as a basis for developing and improving institutional mechanisms to support various types of families with children, which involves legislative, infrastructural, personnel and information support for the state family- demographic policy. Thus, a model describing institutional mechanisms of effective family- demographic policy in relation to different types of families and based on the authors’ classification becomes an urgent research task. Application of this model would improve efficiency of those measures of the state family- demographic policy that aim at supporting traditional values and families with children. The scientific task of the conducted study was to find efficiency criteria for mechanisms of the authors’ model of family- demographic policy in the context of the current Russian depopulation. The methodological basis of the study consisted of conceptual approaches of sociology of the family in the field of developing the institution of prosperous family with children, comparative-legal and historical- legal approaches.