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Bureaucratic Appointments in Hybrid Regimes
Noah Buckley, Garifullina G., Reuter O. J.
Scholars associate bureaucratic quality with economic development. One particularly important component of a well-functioning bureaucracy is meritocratic promotion. This paper explores the conditions under which politicians will appoint high-level bureaucrats on the basis of economic performance. We argue that two key features of democracy—electoral competition and media freedom— increase the incidence of performance-based appointments among high-level bureaucrats. We test these claims using original data on turnover among 3762 vice governors in Russia’s 89 regions between 2001 and 2011. We also find that levels of bureaucratic turnover depend on the characteristics of the principal making those appointments.
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Ermolin I., Suvorkov P., Conservation Biology 2026 No. e70300 P. 1–10
Illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing driven by artisanal small-scale fisheries is a critical threat to global biodiversity and is exemplified by the commercial extinction of Caspian sturgeons (Acipenser and Huso). A key knowledge gap persists regarding the scale and behavioral dynamics of these operations.We tested the hypothesis that persistent high-volume sturgeon poaching is sustained ...
Added: April 25, 2026
Ankudinov I., Социология: методология, методы, математическое моделирование 2025 № 61 С. 165–203
The changing political mood of Russians is a constant subject of interest for sociological agencies. With the development of the Internet, conventional questionnaire research began to be supplemented by online surveys and, despite some skepticism, by social media mining. This article attempts to adjust an accidental web-sample so as to bring its estimates closer to ...
Added: April 22, 2026
Kanaev E., Tawares J. A., Drugov A. Y. et al., M.: IOS RAS, 2025.
The year 2025 is marked by two significant anniversaries – the 80th anniversary of Indonesia's independence and the 75th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and the Republic of Indonesia. The monograph offers the reader an in-depth analysis of the dynamics and features of the interaction between CCCH/Russia and Indonesia, ...
Added: April 21, 2026
Kanaev E., Попов А. В., Другов А. Ю. et al., М.: Институт востоковедения РАН, 2025.
The year 2025 was marked by two significant anniversaries – the 80th anniversary of Indonesia's independence and the 75th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and the Republic of Indonesia. The monograph offers the reader an in-depth analysis of the dynamics and features of the interaction between CCCH/Russia and Indonesia, ...
Added: April 21, 2026
Ustyuzhanin V., Fain E., Korotayev A., Conflict Management and Peace Science 2026 P. 1–23
In the field of civil war studies, there is a consensus that the risk of war decreases as income increases. Nevertheless, such consensus has not been reached in the field of civil resistance and unarmed revolutions. This paper proposes a curvilinear framework positing two opposite trends in economic development. On the one hand, it increases ...
Added: April 21, 2026
Kosevich E., Latin American Perspectives 2026 P. 1–17
This research explores the similarities and differences in the interpretation of multipolarity,
which have developed in the academic discourse of Russia and Latin America. The
paper focuses on the position that prevails in Latin America regarding the Russia–Ukraine
conflict, emphasizing the emergence of a group of countries within LAC that support
“active neutrality.” The author concludes that existing contradictions ...
Added: April 21, 2026
Baysha O., Trofimov V., Российская школа связей с общественностью 2026 № 40 С. 171–191
A growing number of scholars are warning about the dangers of the reproduction by generative AI of socio-political and ideological biases absorbed by models from the texts on which they were trained. If a given model was trained on Western media texts, it may generate narratives that reproduce West centric views of world events. This ...
Added: April 21, 2026
Gallyamova A., Grigoryev D., Journal of Environmental Psychology 2026 Vol. 112 Article 103040
Recent theoretical developments in ecological approaches to culture challenge the prevailing East–West framing of cultural variation by emphasizing a north–south axis linked to local habitat stability and climatic demands. Building on Van de Vliert et al.’s (2025) ecological analysis, we replicate their preliminary tests across 83 Russian regions and add focused analyses to clarify the ...
Added: April 20, 2026
Korotayev A., Хайруллин Т. Р., Shelkovnikov A., Восток. Афро-азиатские общества: история и современность 2025 № 1 С. 195–207
The article analyzes the Saudi-Emirati alliance formed after the events of the Arab Spring as a reaction to the strengthening of the Turkish-Qatari alliance. The common point of contact in the process of rapprochement between Saudi Arabia and the UAE was the fear and suspicion of the transnational organization Muslim Brotherhood supported by Qatar and ...
Added: April 20, 2026
Shelkovnikov A., Дорошенко Г. А., Asian Journal of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies 2025 Vol. 19 No. 3 P. 272–284
The study analyzes one of the most important elements of Russia’s foreign policy at the present stage. The stated topic is explored on the basis of three components: a study of the Russian Federation’s policy on promoting BRICS and the SCO among the Gulf countries, an analysis of the positions and degree of practical participation ...
Added: April 20, 2026
Kazun A. D., Вестник Московского университета. Серия 10: Журналистика 2026 № 1 С. 3–35
This article presents the development and validation of a short doomscrolling scale, conceptualized as excessive consumption of negative news that affects individuals’ emotional state. A five-item scale is proposed, partly based on the components model of behavioral addictions and the diagnostic criteria for addictions (DSM-5). The quality of the instrument is tested using data from ...
Added: April 20, 2026
L.: Routledge, 2026.
1989 in the East revisits the processes that led to the collapse of communist regimes in Central and Eastern Europe, the Balkans and the USSR. This disintegration appeared to be the result of complex mobilisations where the repertoires of action, the institutional and non-institutional ties, the ideological preferences, and the identities of the actors, including the ...
Added: April 19, 2026
Maltsev A., Russia in Global Affairs 2026 Vol. 24 No. 2 P. 102–127
Contemporary IR theory lacks a unified and complete taxonomy of interstate military-political relationships. The conceptual diversity of overlapping, often interchangeable terms (alliance, alignment, coalition, entente, strategic partnership) generates false dichotomies and a gap between fundamental alliance theories and applied studies of defense cooperation practices. This article proposes a three-dimensional classification of military alignments. Each state ...
Added: April 19, 2026
Shelkovnikov A., Азия и Африка сегодня 2025 № 7 С. 37–46
В статье рассматриваются перспективы сотрудничества России и Объединенных Арабских Эмиратов (ОАЭ) в области обеспечения информационной безопасности. Выяснено, что данное сотрудничество является частью более широкого взаимодействия, нашедшего правовое закрепление в Декларации о стратегическом сотрудничестве от 1 июня 2018 г. Успех ОАЭ в области развития информационных технологий и обеспечения информационной безопасности связан с устойчивым экономическим ростом, обеспечившим ...
Added: April 16, 2026
Vissoky G., Vigoda-Gadot E., Styrin E. M., Public Administration Review 2026 P. 1–11
We propose an interdisciplinary theoretical framework that integrates insights from political science, public administration, organizational theory, economics, psychology, sociology, and cognitive science to better understand the role of emotions in governance in the digital age. We argue that citizens' sentiments and emotional responses are central to their relationships with government institutions and bureaucracies. Building on bounded ...
Added: April 16, 2026
СПб.: Санкт-Петербургский университет технологий управления и экономики, 2026.
В настоящий сборник научных трудов включены материалы V Международной научно-практической конференции, организованной Санкт-Петербургским университетом технологий управления и экономики совместно с Законодательным Собранием Санкт-Петербурга, Институтом проблем региональной экономики РАН, Российской академией естественных наук 20-21 ноября 2025 г. В публикациях настоящего сборника рассмотрены ключевые аспекты трансформации системы государственного муниципального управления ив условиях неопределенности: адаптация государственных структур, стратегическое ...
Added: April 16, 2026
Ismagilova A., Тетради по консерватизму 2025 № 4 С. 84–95
This article examines American national conservatism—a political and intellectual movement that emerged as a response to the crisis of the liberal global order and neoliberalism. The author demonstrates how Natcons, relying on a network of foundations, media outlets, and personnel projects, have become one of the key centers of influence in the second Trump administration, ...
Added: April 15, 2026
Ustyuzhanin V., / Series Econometrics "arxiv". 2026.
This paper proposes Covariate-Balanced Weighted Stacked Difference-in-Differences (CBWSDID), a design-based extension of weighted stacked DID for settings in which untreated trends may be conditionally rather than unconditionally parallel. The estimator separates within-subexperiment design adjustment from across-subexperiment aggregation: matching or weighting improves treated-control comparability within each stacked subexperiment, while the corrective stacked weights of Wing et ...
Added: April 3, 2026
Vorchik A., / Social Science Research Network. Серия SSRN Working Paper Series "SSRN Working Paper Series". 2026.
This article is devoted to the phenomenon of intrinsic motivation, to understand which two models are proposed. We study how positive/negative intrinsic motivation to work (experienced utility) affects worker's individual labour supply (model I) and the amount of effort they exert (model II). In model I, we use intrinsic motivation to explain the positive/negative slope ...
Added: March 15, 2026
Gaman-Golutvina O. V., Ковлер А. И., Вентана Граф, 2023.
The textbook is intended for studying the course "Social Studies" at the level of the second concentration. He introduces high school students to the political and legal spheres of society, to the problems of the modern global world. Working with him will contribute to the socialization of students and the formation of their Russian civic ...
Added: March 9, 2026
Gaman-Golutvina O. V., Корсун Р. П., Соболева О. Б., М.: Просвещение, 2025.
The textbook is addressed to students of the 9th grade of secondary school. It contains extensive theoretical and factual material on the social and political spheres of modern society, and the prospects for its development. The teaching staff offers multi-level questions and tasks for individual and collective work, teaches how to work with information. Diagrams ...
Added: March 9, 2026
СПб.: Скифия-принт, 2025.
The collection includes 51 articles selected based on double-blind peer review, grouped into thematic blocks corresponding to the main areas of the conference. Of particular value is the section "Contemporaries on the Era," which features personal testimonies from participants in the events. The publication reflects the current state of research on Perestroika and the 1990s, ...
Added: March 3, 2026
Vorchik A., Мамышев М. А., / Series Social Science Research Network "Social Science Research Network". 2025.
In this paper, we develop a formal mathematical model aimed to explain the Dunning-Kruger effect that beginners systematically overestimate their own competence in various fields of knowledge and activity. We argue that the Dunning-Kruger effect arises from the emotional nature of confidence combined with unknown unknowns that it simply can not take into account due ...
Added: February 11, 2026
Borushkina S., Gorodnichev A., / Elsevier. Серия -- "WPS". 2026.
Agglomeration policy has long been a widely accepted approach in spatial development, premised on
the assumption that large, integrated city-regions drive national economic growth through higher
productivity, innovation, and global integration. This paper examines how this paradigm is reworked
under conditions of polycrisis, understood as a durable state of overlapping and mutually reinforcing
economic, geopolitical, and institutional crises. Focusing ...
Added: February 10, 2026