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Providing goods and votes? Federal elections and the quality of local governance in Russia
Europe-Asia Studies. 2021. Vol. 73. No. 6. P. 1037–1059.
Zavadskaya M., Shilov L. A.
Does electoral support affect the quality of public goods provision? In this study, we explore the variety of governance patterns on the level of Russian municipalities from 2012 to 2018. We estimate the effects of budget autonomy and electoral loyalty during federal elections on public goods provision and explore whether elected heads provide better services. Our findings suggest that since elected heads have limited capacity to provide better services, electoral loyalty does not uniformly result in improved public goods provision in municipalities.
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“Leaderlessness” is widely held to be a defining feature of contemporary mass mobilization, yet the claim rests on a handful of recent cases. We offer the first systematic cross-national analysis of this phenomenon from 1791 to 2019. We show that the absence of leadership is real but older and more modest than claimed: the share ...
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The classic work of the famous German jurist and political theorist Carl Schmitt is devoted to reflections on the partisan as a "key figure in world history", starting with its appearance during the struggle of the Spanish people against the Napoleonic troops in 1808-1813 and ending with the consideration of historical destinies and the political ...
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Kosevich E., Problems of Post-Communism 2026 P. 1–21
Since 2022, the Kremlin has revised its foreign policy priorities. Russia’s traditional Western partners have been designated as “unfriendly countries,” and Moscow has increasingly focused on intensifying rapprochement with states in the Global South, with Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), as the US’ closest neighbors, occupying a special place in this strategy. The region ...
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Vagin S., , in: Industry 4.0: Exploring the Consequences of Climate Change.: Switzerland: Springer Nature Switzerland AG, 2021. P. 389–396.
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This book reflects the futuristic scientific view of the consequences of transition to Industry 4.0 for climate change. The authors present a systemic overview of the current negative consequences of digitization for the environment, new outlines of the energy sphere in Industry 4.0 and the change of the environment pollution level in Industry 4.0. The ...
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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, ...
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Medushevsky A. N., Liberal.ru 2026
Today, more than ever before, the contribution of new technologies shapes the conditions of humanity's existence as a biological species, prompting a debate about its prospects for survival. This process of transformation—which spans every sphere of social and moral regulation, from family relations and child-rearing to the very meaning of life—is dividing public opinion between ...
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Medushevsky A. N., Сравнительное конституционное обозрение 2026 Т. 35 № 2 (167) С. 4–29
In the context of the rapid changes in the modern world associated with globalization, informatiza tion, and the revision of ethical standards of mass behavior, legal theory faces a number of problems — the loss of consensus in understanding global constitutionalism, growing disagreements regard ing its values and principles, and unclear prospects for the future. ...
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Judges should be independent of politics, yet they are constantly ensnared by it. Politics haunts judges even where the full scope of constitutional guarantees for the separation of powers and an in dependent judiciary is in place, infiltrating the courtroom through variable interpretations of the val ues, principles, and norms of the constitution, the selection ...
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Globalization has exacerbated the eternal conflict between law and ethics: should national laws be respected when they conflict with universal international principles of human rights; should the law-abiding attitude operate in the same way in democracies and authoritarian states, and calls for emancipation take into account the degree of internal freedom of society and its ...
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Th is article explores the transformation of global social space as a transition from a fragmented space
to a holistic one characterized by globality, openness, and inclusiveness, as well as the interconnectedness of the
globalization processes in cultural, economic, socio-communicative, and political spaces. Th e article identifi es the
specifi c features of globalization in each of these ...
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Рябова Т. Б., Клещенко Л. Л., Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета. Серия 4: История. Регионоведение. Международные отношения 2026 Vol. 31 No. 2 P. 165–177
Introduction. For the first time, the article examines the contemporary Russians’ and Americans’ social views on how the Soviet and US Cold War mass culture represented “us” and “them”. Materials and methods. The article is based on an analysis of data from an in-depth interview conducted in the USA and Russia (n = 27, autumn ...
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Клещенко Л. Л., Общественные науки и современность 2026 № 3 С. 100–111
The issues of unequal access to nuclear resources and unequal distribution of the burden from the exploitation of the atom today are of interest not only to researchers but also to cinematographers. The purpose of this study is to identify the features of visual representations of the nuclear threat in the cinema in the new ...
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Борзова А. Ю., Volosyuk O. V., Kozylov I., Контуры глобальных трансформаций: политика, экономика, право 2026 Т. 19 № 1 С. 120–143
This article analyzes the transformation of Latin America’s geopolitical landscape between 2001 and 2026 and the evolution of U.S.-China competition in the region. The study seeks to determine how China’s gradual expansion in trade, investment, infrastructure, energy, digital technologies, and institutional dialogue has changed the parameters of traditional U.S. influence in the Western Hemisphere. Using ...
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Borushkina S., Gorodnichev A., Cities 2026 Vol. 179 No. 12 Article 107500
Agglomeration policy has long been a dominant paradigm in spatial development, premised on the assumption that large, integrated city-regions drive national economic growth through productivity, innovation, and global integration. This paper examines how this paradigm is reworked under conditions of polycrisis, a durable state in which economic, geopolitical, and institutional shocks interact and reinforce one ...
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The Middle East (ME) region is vitally important to Japan, as it accounts for
90% of Japan's oil imports. For many years, Japan has sought to build friendly relations
with all countries in the region, often having to balance its own interests with its strategic
alignment with the United States, its only military and political ally. The seminar ...
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Chizhevskaya M., Russian Japanology Review 2026 Vol. 9 No. 1 P. 101–130
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Biryuk D., SSRN Electronic Journal 2023
The article examines the problems of digital transformation of public administration in the field of science and higher education, its regulatory aspects, and suggests new approaches to management for the effective implementation of the goals of digital transformation of public administration. Using the example of educational institutions of higher education, in particular Tomsk Polytechnic University, ...
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Grishina D., Soloviev A., Международная аналитика 2026 Т. 17 № 2 С. 10–29
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Strelnikova I., Kharina O., Россия и Америка в XXI веке 2026 № 1
В статье исследуется российско-индийское сотрудничество в Арктике в условиях геополитического соперничества и санкционного давления Запада. Цель работы – проанализировать стратегические интересы России и Индии, определить перспективы их взаимодействия в энергетике, инфраструктуре и транспортных коридорах, а также выявить основные вызовы. Выводы показывают, что сотрудничество обладает значительным потенциалом для экономического и технологического развития, однако его реализация осложняется ...
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Iskakova B., Kleinlein E. V., Prisyazhniuk D. et al., European Journal of Education 2026 Vol. 61 No. 3 Article e70810
This study examines pre-service teachers' (PSTs) attitudes towards inclusive education in Germany and Russia and investigates how they relate to teacher training curricula and teacher educators' discourse. A mixed-methods design was used, including an online survey of PSTs (n = 460) with an open-ended question, curriculum review and exploratory interviews with university educators in both contexts. The ...
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Pislyakov V., Вестник Томского государственного университета. Филология 2026 № 101 С. 175–192
This article examines the use of proverbs in academic texts—specifically, articles published in Russian research journals. For the experiment, ten proverbs were selected as the intersection of two fundamentally different paremiological surveys aimed at compiling lists of popular or common Russian proverbs. One of these surveys was conducted by the classic of paremiology, G.L. Permyakov, ...
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Абрамова И. О., Аду Я. Н., Анише Т. Э. et al., Институт Африки РАН, 2025.
Данная монография посвящена анализу концепции суверенитета африканских государств как в теоретическом, так и практическом ключе. Рассматриваются экономический, ментальный, языковой и культурный, информационный и образовательный аспекты африканского суверенитета. Исследуется роль региональных интеграционных группировок, а также внешних акторов в контексте суверенизации Африки. Особое внимание уделяется роли РФ в укре- плении суверенитета стран континента.
Монография формирует целостное представление по ...
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Кочегаров К. А., Новое прошлое 2022 № 1 С. 219–228
The paper, basing on discussion questions of the editorial board of the “Novoe
Proshloe / The New Past” journal, touches upon main tendencies of academic studies
in relations between Muscovite Rus’ and post-Golden Horde states in the Early Modern
period. Taking into account various achievements of modern Russian historiography
(works of Anna Choroshkewich, Vadim Trepavlov, Ilya Zaytsev, Andrey Belyakov ...
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