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Titkov A. S., Социология власти 2019 Т. 31 № 4 С. 53–94
This article reconstructs the theoretical logic underlying the "Soviet Man" research project by Yuri Levada's group. Based on the project's publications, it reconstructs an "early" model, which includes a set of attitudes toward the "antinomies" of the Soviet system, and a later model, which emphasizes a set of adaptive characteristics ("adapted," "two-faced," etc.). It elucidates the empirical ...
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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 ...
Added: September 4, 2026
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
Большаков А. В., Мировая экономика и международные отношения 2026 Т. 70 № 4 С. 63–71
Scotland’s independence will have a detrimental effect on its economy. After the split from the UK, the Scottish Government will have to implement austerity policies in order to achieve socioeconomic stability in the country. These measures will include reduction in social payments, cancelation of infrastructure projects, introduction of expenditure limits on green energy initiatives. Overall, ...
Added: May 21, 2026
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
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
Zemtsov A., Magun V., / Series https://osf.io/preprints "SocArXiv". 2024.
http://osf.io/preprints/osf/9c2f6 ...
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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
Asatryan G., Kalpakian J., Governance: An international journal of policy, administration and institutions 2022 Vol. 35 No. 1 P. 333–335
The COVID-19 pandemic brought the state's role back to the forefront of domestic and international political life. Unlike private actors, the state showed that it could cope with fundamental existential problems that face its population. Some states deeply involved in their health-care system had better results than those who had ceded the sector to private, ...
Added: September 16, 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 ...
Added: May 31, 2024
Maksim Kostin, Korotayev A., Comparative Sociology 2024 Vol. 23 No. 2 P. 240–278
USAID democracy promotion programs might not only influence the democracy levels, but also increase the likelihood of revolutionary uprisings in the recipient states. Democracy promotion can strengthen political opponents of the incumbent regime via support for alternative media, civil society groups and political parties, on one hand, and, on the other, support democratic institutions that ...
Added: May 7, 2024
Andrey Korotayev, Andrew Zhdanov, Leonid Grinin et al., Cross-Cultural Research 2025 Vol. 59 No. 2 P. 180–215
In this article, we analyze an inverted U-shaped relationship between the type of regime (on the autocracy-democracy scale) and the risks of revolutionary destabilization. Anocracies tend to be more vulnerable to revolutionary destabilization than full autocracies or full (consolidated) democracies. We also point to a strong positive association between the weakening of autocracies and the ...
Added: April 8, 2024
Dmitry Efimov, , in: The Bloomsbury Handbook of Student Politics and Representation in Higher Education.: L.: Bloomsbury, 2024. P. 531–549.
This chapter investigates features of the Russian system of student representation including the context of socio-political post-communist transitions in recent decades. While earlier student professional unions were the only significant student representation bodies in Russia, in the 2010s the new legislation have been forced universities to create representation councils for considering student opinion on matters ...
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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
Gökarıksel S., Gontarska O., Hilmar T. et al., L.: Routledge, 2023.
his book discusses how societies, groups and individuals remember and make sense of global neoliberal change in Eastern Europe. Such an investigation is all the more timely as the 1990s are increasingly looked to for answers explaining the populist and nationalist turn across the globe.
The volume shows how the key processes that impacted many lives ...
Added: November 12, 2023
Szakonyi D., Finkel E., / Series "Working Papers". 2023.
One of the main debates in the study of authoritarianism concerns whether autocrats promote and reward agents based on performance or ideological loyalty to stave off the threat of elite coups. Yet autocrats often face existential crisis situations, particularly military conflict, where their survival depends on the performance of lower-level cadres defending the regime. In ...
Added: October 17, 2023
Afzali R., Mirzadeh Koohshahi M., Mahmoodi A. et al., Geopolitics Quarterly 2021 Vol. 15 No. 4 P. 234–263
It is argued in this paper that the non-formation or non-growth of democracy in the Middle East is related to geopolitical centrality. The network analysis of Iran and Saudi Arabia in terms of geopolitical centrality indicates that the high geopolitical centrality of these two countries in the existing geopolitical sub-networks at this region is one ...
Added: October 10, 2023
Малашенко А. В., Nisnevich Y. A., Мировая экономика и международные отношения 2023 Т. 67 № 8 С. 95–109
The democratic trend in the Muslim world is very difficult and contradictory. Its particularities need to be correctly studied what gives an opportunity to present suggestions about perspectives of democracy in Muslim states and societies. The Muslim world itself is composed of 47 states in which the majority consists of muslims added to them some ...
Added: July 31, 2023