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Russian e-Petitions Portal: Exploring Regional Variance in Use
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The paper presents the results of research on factors explaining the level of e-petitioning in Russian regions. The main goal is to reveal socio-economic, technological and institutional problems the regions face, and hence to embed the Russian case into the broad research agenda on online engagement. We concentrate on the federal e-petitions portal – Russian Public Initiative – and use the automated monitoring system to analyse subnational dynamics of online petitions submissions and voting on the aggregate level. The data are used to quantitatively assess the drivers and obstacles for e-participation. Our findings suggest that more active e-petition portal usage in regions is associated with higher socio-economic and technological development, as well as with democratic institutions and better e-government policy. One of the main obstacles to active use of the portal is its institutional design that at the moment provides regions with different opportunities and reinforces participation divides. Future steps, implications for automated monitoring system and some policy recommendations are also discussed.
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Titkov A. S., Социологическое обозрение 2021 Т. 20 № 1 С. 262–289
The article continues the discussion of Grigory Yudin’s book 'Public Opinion'. The review considers Yudin’s arguments on the “plebiscitarian bias” in opinion-poll technology, on the linkages between opinion-polls, Rousseauist tradition and the “plebiscitarian model”, and on Gallup’s, Schumpeter’s, and Weber’s contributions to plebiscitarism. In the context of the proposed conceptual model, controversial issues in the interpretation of Weber’s and ...
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Medushevsky A. N., Liberal.ru 2026
The Liberal Mission Foundation continues to introduce readers to new concepts of democracy and relevant publications. This discussion focuses on the challenges facing democracy in the era of globalization, as addressed in two recent books: *The Backsliders: Why Leaders Undermine Their Own Democracies* by S.C. Stokes (2025) and *Critical Theories and the Postsocialist Challenge: Race, ...
Added: August 26, 2026
Andiev S., Философия. Журнал Высшей школы экономики 2026 Т. 10 № 2 С. 81–98
Статья посвящена рассмотрению и анализу утопии в творчестве литературного критика и философа Реймонда Уильямса. Обращение к наследию одного из самых значительных представителей британских «новых левых» резонно. С помощью анализа академических и политических текстов Реймонда Уильямса раскрывается его концепция утопии. В первой части статьи дается описание двух видов утопии: утопии как системы и утопии как «обучения ...
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Balashov D., Антиномии 2026 Т. 26 № 1 С. 27–48
The movement of effective altruism, which emerged at the beginning of the 21st century, represents a new form of utilitarian philosophy that has had a significant impact on Anglo-American philosophical thought in the 19th and 20th centuries. A key feature of effective altruism is its emphasis on practicality. The movement positions itself as an entity ...
Added: May 13, 2026
Girinsky A., Философические письма. Русско-европейский диалог 2026 Т. 9 № 1 С. 172–191
This article presents an analysis of the political and philosophical concepts of Russian political thinkers - F.A. Stepun and I.A. Ilyin. The emphasis is on the analysis of the phenomenon of "democracy" in the works of these philosophers. The subject of the study is the analysis of democracy as a political secular form. At the ...
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European Research Network on Philanthropy, 2026.
ERNOP Conference Proceedings 2025
European Research Network on Philanthropy (ERNOP)
Proceedings of contributions presented at the 12th ERNOP Conference 2025
"Philanthropy by the people, for the people?
The roles, organisations and motivations of philanthropy in
contemporary democracies and social structures"
Heidelberg, 25–26 September 2025
First edition ...
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Royce D. P., Mezhdunarodnye Protsessy 2026 Vol. 23 No. 3 P. 41–63
Although studies have already found Freedom House’s* Freedom in the World rankings to be geopolitically biased, the index remains in use by academia (including Russian academia) with surprising frequency. This article provides detailed and quantitative evidence that Freedom House* is essentially part of the US Government and US political establishment, and is thus in principle liable ...
Added: January 5, 2026
Lesiv B., Italian Review of Legal History 2024 No. 10/2 P. 1–59
A realistic approach to common law is one of the most authoritative views on the role and potential of judges in law-making. American judge Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. was a mastermind of legal realism and held a very special position among his fellows. Conventionally, legal realism is considered a progressive and innovative movement of the ...
Added: December 24, 2024
Dmitriev T., Социологическое обозрение 2024 Т. 23 № 2 С. 231–259
Based on the analysis of Machiavelli’s political writings such as “Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius”, “The Prince” and “The History of Florence”, the article shows that attempts made repeatedly over the past few decades by such scholars as Tony Negri, John McCormick, Agnes Heller, Claude Lefort and Pierre Manent to declare Machiavelli ...
Added: October 8, 2024
Мухаев Р. Т., Zhdanov A., М.: НИЦ Инфра-М, 2023.
The mobility of political changes and the multiplicity of determinants that determine their course make them a rather difficult object to study. Moreover, the process of uncontrolled changes (political revolutions) is unpredictable when a society moves from one type of development and political system to another. This happened in the 90s of the XX century ...
Added: September 17, 2024
Потапов И. И., Клименко Н. В., Sedov V., Вестник Пермского университета. Серия: Политология 2021 Т. 15 № 3 С. 5–14
Research of totalitarianism in modern science is changing. Over time, it has become clear that it is necessary to revise the basic approaches to the study of this problem. The article is devoted to the research of the main theoretical concepts of totalitarianism of the XX-XXI centuries for their bias. An attempt is made to ...
Added: August 9, 2024
Melville A. Y., Политическая наука 2024 № 2 С. 16–36
This article deals with some new theoretical and methodological
challenges for contemporary political science to wait for consideration. These
challenges are ontological and epistemological; on the one hand, they derive from the
objective dynamics the political, economic and social reality and, on the other hand,
from the emerging dilemmas of political science itself. The first type of challenges
comprises the ...
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Obolonsky A. V., Политическая концептология: журнал метадисциплинарных исследований 2024 № 1 С. 22–55
Статья носит научно-аналитический характер и не предполагает непосредственной связи с вопросами текущей политики. Подчеркивается принципиальное различие между политикой в подлинном, аристотелевском значении, и конъюнктурным политиканством. В общетеоретическом плане рассматриваются исторические, моральные и социологические аспекты геополитической парадигмы, ее имманентная ущербность и многосторонние негативные последствия. Анализируются историческое происхождение и эволюция лежащего в ее основе политического мировоззрения, а ...
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Volkov P., СПб.: Издательство РХГА, 2023.
В книгу вошли статьи участников проекта «ЛДНР и освобождаемые территории в едином российском культурно-цивилизационном поле» (Народный университет им. Д. Дугиной), а также избранные эссе студентов из Новороссии, написанные по итогам прослушивания лекций, организованных в процессе
реализации проекта. В фокусе внимания этого сборника оказывается четыре большие области: философия, идеология, образование и культура современной России. Авторы философского блока ...
Added: March 7, 2024
Костюков А. Н., Tretiak I., Журнал конституционного правосудия 2022 № 2 С. 7–13
The article is devoted to the consideration of the Federal Law «On the general principles of the organization of public power in the constituent entities of the Russian Federation» in the context of the constitutional cycles theory. The authors conduct a legal analysis of several provisions of the federal law in order to determine the ...
Added: February 4, 2024
Kovalev I. G., Palachanin I., Актуальные проблемы Европы 2023 № 1 С. 90–112
The article examines the historical specifics of the democratic form of government in Great Britain, and also identifies main directions of its changes in current conditions under the influence of a wide range of external
and internal factors. Much attention is paid to the active discussion in the sci- entific community on the development and constant ...
Added: October 30, 2023
Pobedonostsev A., В кн.: Ежегодный сборник статей исследовательского центра энергетической политики Европейского университета в Санкт-Петербурге.: СПб.: Европейский университет в Санкт-Петербурге, 2018. С. 181–227.
Данная работа посвящена одному из самых спорных направлений современной политической экономии, известному как «парадокс изобилия» или проблема «ресурсного проклятия». Автор пытается выявить механизмы взаимосвязи между высоким размером доходов, получаемых от экспорта нефти и газа, и низким уровнем демократии. При помощи регрессионного анализа тестируются предложенные Майклом Россом «антидемократические эффекты» нефтяных доходов, такие как «эффект ренты», «эффект налогов», «эффект расходов» и «эффект ...
Added: September 19, 2023