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Regional Elites and Moscow
Ch. 5. P. 109–135.
Petrov N., Nazrullaeva E.
Accessing the degree to wgich regional elites influence Center's decisions is challeging given the non-transparent and informal nature of this relationship. Still, the information reviewed suggests something more complicated than the common image of an ever more centralized and hierarchical "vertical of power".
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Washington: Brookings Institution Press, 2018.
Федосейкин Д. И., Политическая наука 2025 № 3 С. 299–320
In 2022, the Donetsk and Luhansk people's republics, as well as the Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions, became part of the Russian Federation, initiating large-scale processes of their political, administrative, and economic integration. One of the key tasks is the incorporation of the regional political elites of these territories into Russia's multi-level governance system. In this ...
Added: September 23, 2025
Gaivoronsky Y., Balandin Y., Russian Politics 2025 Vol. 10 No. 1 P. 22–50
How is elite cohesion possible in a patronalistic regime? Drawing on the theory of patronal politics and social network analysis, it is shown that the federal-level elites have been involved in the decision-making with respect to the recruitment of the gubernatorial corps in Russia. The analysis has revealed a clear pattern towards the complexity and ...
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Turovsky R. F., Sukhova M., Функ К. В., Сравнительная политика 2024 Т. 15 № 3 С. 19–45
The article analyzes the recruitment of the heads of law enforcement agencies in Russian regions. The authors collected extensive biographical dataset on all the heads of the prosecutor’s office and the Ministry of Interior in Russian regions in the post-Soviet period, which made it possible to identify the main patterns for the appointments, transfers among ...
Added: December 8, 2024
Stremoukhov D., Вестник Пермского университета. Серия: Политология 2023 Т. 17 № 3 С. 21–32
Рассмотрена возможность применения теорий идентичности и конструктивистского подхода к объ-яснению элитных взаимодействий в недемократических политических режимах на примере открытых конфликтов между российскими региональными бизнесменами и главами субъектов Российской Федера-ции. В условиях слабой защищенности прав собственности инициирование конфликтов с властями зачастую угрожает существованию бизнеса и ставит под вопрос возможность извлечения материаль-ных выгод из занимаемых предпринимателями властных ...
Added: August 29, 2024
Максименко Александр Александрович, Зайцев А. В., Дейнека О. С. et al., Регионология 2024 Т. 32 № 2 С. 217–241
Introduction. The article is devoted to the study of the effectiveness of digital communication of the governor's corps with society. This problem attracts the attention of many scientists, but there are very few works with empirical verification of the models proposed by various authors of research, there is no justification and scientific understanding of an ...
Added: May 9, 2024
Balandin Y., Gaivoronsky Y., Полития: Анализ. Хроника. Прогноз 2023 № 3(110) С. 67–90
The article is devoted to testing different approaches to explaining the turnover of the heads of the Russian regions after the return of direct gubernatorial elections. Until recently, two basic explanatory models of gubernatorial turnovers — electoral and socio-economic — were the most popular among the Russian political scientists. The influence on such turnovers of ...
Added: September 19, 2023
Aleksei Egorov, Sergey Malinovskiy, , in: Assessing the Contributions of Higher Education: Knowledge for a Disordered World.: Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2023. Ch. 14 P. 286–299.
Massification of higher education system may have changed significantly the roles of different types of universities in elite class formation. While the educational background of political elites in general has been widely studied, some questions have been left on the periphery. First, social sciences focus mostly on the political elite at the centres of power, with ...
Added: April 14, 2023
Рекрутирование губернаторского корпуса в современной России: эволюция патрональных сетей (2017—2021)
Gaivoronsky Y., Balandin Y., Полития: Анализ. Хроника. Прогноз 2022 № 4 С. 146–167
The article presents an attempt to study the structural dynamics of federal-regional political networks in the process of recruiting heads of the regions. The authors focus their attention on the current stage of the evolution of the federal center’s approach towards the formation of the governor’s corps, which began with the change of the team ...
Added: November 29, 2022
Korneev O., European Journal of Migration and Law 2013 Vol. 15 No. 3 P. 301–318
The EU has been involved in various migration governance initiatives in Central Asia with ambiguous impact. Among the reasons given to account for EU external governance failures in Central Asia figure poor EU local expertise , “awkwardness” of states in the region, low level of regional cooperation and high conflict potential among Central Asian states. ...
Added: August 15, 2022
Р.Ф. Туровский, Е.М. Луизидис, Полис. Политические исследования 2022 № 4 С. 161–178
Вопрос о принципах и последствиях губернаторских ротаций в России находится в центре внимания многих исследователей. В существующих работах особое внимание уделяется ответственности губернаторов за те или иные направления их деятельности, которые могут служить основанием для отставок. Проблема данного исследования состоит в том, что вопрос о принципах ротации губернаторского корпуса в России остается неизученным, во-первых, в ...
Added: July 28, 2022
Reuter O. J., Turovsky R. F., Russian Politics 2022 Vol. 7 No. 2 P. 183–209
This paper explores the impact of vote mobilization and economic performance on gubernatorial appointments in Russia. Previous research has demonstrated that governors are more likely to be reappointed when the regime is performing well at the polls in the region. By contrast, there is inconsistent evidence that regional economic performance affects a governor’s reappointment chances. ...
Added: July 24, 2022
Ю.А. Кабанов, Романов Б. А., Карягин М. Е. et al., Политическая наука 2022 № 2 С. 164–183
In April 2020, the federal authorities in Russia decided to transfer additional decision-making powers to the regions, regarding pandemic-related non-pharmaceutical interventions. While some experts view this as a step towards more federalism, most researchers consider it an attempt to shift the responsibility and blame for decisions and their consequences onto the governors. The empowerment of ...
Added: July 7, 2022
Хайрутдинова А. А., Labyrinth. Теории и практики культуры 2021 № 4 С. 83–93
In this paper, the relationship between the center and the periphery and the participation of Moscow architects in the issues of Sverdlovsk city planning in the 1960—1980s are analyzed on the example of the Soviet modernism architecture of Sverdlovsk. The interference of metropolitan architects is considered as the example of the Soviet colonial practices in ...
Added: January 24, 2022
Mikheeva I. V., Юридическая орбита 2021 № 1 С. 209–214
The article is devoted to the administrative discretion of the governors for choosing the type of administrative act used to introduce and specify the content of the high-alert regime in the conditions of COVID-19. The judgment is expressed about the variability and lack of clarity in the justification of such a choice, which may be ...
Added: January 20, 2022
Ivanov Y., Petrov N., Russian Politics 2021 Vol. 6 No. 2 P. 153–184
An array of qualitative and quantitative information on 2016–2020 Russian governors’ replacements are used to analyze decision-making and the patterns of governors’ appointments as well as their evolution in conjunction with regime transformation and regional variation. Regression analysis is used to establish what factors influence replacements, based on regional monitoring data from the Committee of ...
Added: September 11, 2021
Barsukova S., Левин С. Н., Мониторинг общественного мнения: Экономические и социальные перемены 2020 № 4 С. 41–59
The paper is focused on the ratio between administrative and financial resources as prerequisites for electoral victory, as well as the degree of accountability and autonomy of domestic entrepreneurs involved in electoral activities. Based on interviews with people dealing with electoral campaigns in various regions (political strategists, public officials, entrepreneurs) the authors single out three ...
Added: September 26, 2020
Kazun A., Post-Soviet Affairs 2020 Vol. 36 No. 5-6 P. 416–433
This paper analyzes the process of renegotiation of the informal contract between the regional and federal elites of Russia after the economic crisis. We use the database of Center of Public Procedures’ “Business against Corruption” to show that, after 2011, regional elites in Russia lost the preexisting opportunity to extract rents from businesses in return ...
Added: June 30, 2020