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Bureaucracy and System Maintenance
P. 1188–1191.
Bureaucracy permeates all state authorities to regulate their areas of responsibilities. Effective bureaucracy means a balance between costs and results.
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Farazmand A., Lande E., Larionov A., e t. Cham: Springer, 2022.
Popov A., Ab Imperio 2025 № 4 С. 109–118
This essay is a contribution to the book forum “Soviet Departmentalism” discussing the edited volume put together by the Tyumen historian Igor Stas’ that introduces departmentalism, or vedomstvennost’, as a vital framework for understanding Soviet history. The volume argues that vedomstvennost’ fundamentally organized the daily lives, urban spaces, and social hierarchies of citizens. Aleksei Popov ...
Added: March 27, 2026
Borisova T. Y., Журнал региональной истории 2024 Т. 8 № 1 С. 51 – 84
Статья посвящена сюжету, обойденному вниманием историков, – деятельности Ивана Сергеевича Аксакова в качестве ревизора земского и уездного судов Астраханской губернии. Обращение к отчетам, подготовленным титулярным советником Аксаковым по особой, им самим разработанной системе, позволяет увидеть, каким образом начинающий чиновник-правовед представлял программу переустройства провинциальных судов в дореформенное время. В рабочих документах и литературном наследии Аксакова отчетливо ...
Added: June 8, 2025
Москвина Д. А., Этнографическое обозрение 2025 № 1 С. 135–159
In this article, I consider the manner in which Soviet ethnographers responded to the combination of the di culties in undertaking eldwork and the need to meet the normative requirements and expectations of the Institute of Ethnography, Academy of Sciences of the USSR. The analysis will focus speci cally on how ethnographers studying foreign countries ...
Added: April 3, 2025
Vaskin I., Экономическая социология 2025 Т. 26 № 1 С. 90–112
The article analyzes the socio-demographic composition of the secular jurists and faqihs of the Iranian Guardian Council. The Guardian Council is a hybrid institution that performs the functions of an upper chamber of parliament, a constitutional court, and an electoral committee. The research employs a structural-demographic method. The research dataset consists of seven Guardian Councils, ...
Added: January 29, 2025
K. A. Solov’ev, Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences 2022 Vol. 92 No. S11 P. S1000–S1008
The formation of the political class of Russia on the eve of the First World War is analyzed. Partic
ular attention is paid to the emperor, his inner circle, representatives of the highest bureaucracy, and deputies
of the State Duma involved in the political decision-making process. The question of the forms of interaction,
everyday practices of cooperation between ...
Added: February 19, 2024
Королева М. В., В кн.: На пути к государствам нового времени: Запад и Восток Европы в конце XV - XVII веке.: М., Калуга: Калужский государственный институт развития образования, 2020. С. 344–368.
The article studies the use of the oath in Russia in the 17th century. Firstly, it was used as a means of consolidation and legitimization of power in the struggle of various political forces. Secondly, the oath was a guarantee that the offi cial duties in relation to the sovereign were thoroughly performed. Thirdly, it was used ...
Added: January 24, 2024
Garifullina G., Post-Soviet Affairs 2023
Bureaucratic promotion criteria create powerful incentives that shape the behavior of bureaucrats, governance, and regime legitimacy. Yet informal rules governing the functioning of the state apparatus are notoriously hard to uncover in authoritarian settings. Using a unique survey of Russian regional and municipal bureaucrats with an embedded conjoint experiment, I explore the criteria used for ...
Added: October 13, 2023
Vaskin I., Восток. Афро-азиатские общества: история и современность 2023 № 1 С. 76–92
The article highlights the main patterns of recruiting ministers in the Iranian governments at 1979–1989. The work is based on the theoretical foundation of the study of the elites. Structural biographical analysis is the research method in the article. The paper analyzes the biographies of 183 ministers at the first 7 governments of Iran using ...
Added: April 5, 2023
Guskov S., , in: Goncharov in the Twenty-First Century.: Academic Studies Press, 2021. Ch. 1 P. 3–21.
The author convincingly proves that correlation of the official and the creative in Goncharov’s biography was more complex than ordinarily represented. The two sides of his personality seem to exist in a fruitful interplay (rather than in opposition). The writer’s use of service-related experience to work out creative goals illustrates that the official Goncharov often ...
Added: October 27, 2022
Зубков К. Ю., , in: Goncharov in the Twenty-First Century.: Academic Studies Press, 2021.
In this chapter I attempt to demonstrate that Goncharov’s career in censorship can be explored as a classic case that sheds light on the development of the public sphere in Russia, which underwent significant transformations during the first half of the reign of Alexander II. In the course of these transformations in the 1850s and ...
Added: May 24, 2022
Lukin A., Сравнительная политика 2021 Т. 12 № 3 С. 63–84
The article analyzes the nature of the political system of modern China in the context of the typology of communist
political regimes. The author argues that the typologies of communist regimes proposed so far are of little use, since the
differences between the regimes were not considered deeply enough, while the ideology factor was not actually used ...
Added: August 27, 2021
Bibikov G., Российская история 2021 № 2 С. 86–104
The article considers the nature of the official interaction of the provincial gendarme staff-officers and the provincial administration during the reign of Emperor Nicholas I. The biography of Karl Flige (1785-1842), who consistently held the posts of the Kursk, Minsk and Chernigov provincial gendarme staff officer, and then served as the Kursk and Podolsk governors, ...
Added: May 19, 2021
Chukhrukidze (Chukhrov) K. (., e-flux journal 2020 No. 110
In avant-garde rhetoric, as appropriated by contemporary art, the ideas of social engagement and artistic achievement have been almost identical: after art’s selfsublation, its principal goal has supposedly been social engagement. Yet despite the internalization of the avant-garde’s socially oriented legacy, the true episteme and achievement of art since the 1960s has been conceptual surplus ...
Added: October 12, 2020
Tseluyko M., Вестник Новосибирского государственного университета. Серия: История, филология 2020 Т. 19 № 4 С. 69–80
The paper discusses the question of existence of hereditary aristocracy in the ancient Chinese state of Qin during the period of 4th – 3rd BC, as well as the question of its role in the domestic political process. The paper shows the dynam-ic of political change on the materials of received sources as well as ...
Added: October 11, 2020
Neverov E., Давыдов И. Д., Гражданское общество в России и за рубежом 2020 № 3 С. 35–38
The article considers the forms of involvement of civil society in the making of governmental decisions in March – October 1917. There were several alternative procedures which allowed civil society groups to take part in settling public issues during the Provisional Government. ...
Added: September 18, 2020
Bibikov G., Вестник Томского государственного университета. История 2017 Т. 50 № 6 С. 12–23
The aim of presented article is to examine the mechanism of control of the Third section of His Imperial Majesty's Own Chancellery over the highest provincial bureaucracy during the Nicholas I era. The career of Ivan Talysin (1799-1844), who served in the 1830s-1840s as civil governor in Tobolsk and Orenburg was taken as an example. ...
Added: May 20, 2020
Turovsky R. F., Вестник Московского университета. Серия 12: Политические науки 2010 № 5 С. 37–44
В статье рассматриваются актуальные проблемы трансформации властных элит в российских регионах на примере губернаторского корпуса. На основе собранного автором эмпирического материала проведен анализ политики назначения губернаторов президентом страны, ее интенсивности и направленности. Показано ускорение процесса замены губернаторского корпуса от года к году. Выявлены пять основных противоречий, типичных для управляемой бюрократической модели формирования губернаторского корпуса. ...
Added: April 23, 2020
Borisov V., Cahiers d'histoire russe, est-européenne, caucasienne et centrasiatique (ex. Cahiers du Monde Russe) 2019 Т. 60 № 1 С. 73–93
The correspondence of Senator Count Roman Vorontsov with captain of Preobrazhenskii regiment Petr Chebyshev and Marshal of Shlissel´burg nobility Alexander Artsybashev is a unique source revealing unofficial negotiations regarding the election of Vorontsov as a deputy to the Legislative Commission of 1767 and the composition of the instruction (nakaz) addressed to him. It demonstrates that Roman Vorontsov initiated his election ...
Added: October 22, 2019
Vaskin I., Восток. Афро-азиатские общества: история и современность 2019 № 5 С. 44–59
The article examines the trends of the recruitment channels to the Cabinet of ministers in the Islamic Republic of Iran from 1989 till 2017. It intends to fill the lacunae in the literature on Cabinets and ministerial elites of Iran. The theoretical framework is based on the literature dedicated to the Cabinet formation in Europe ...
Added: October 18, 2019
Ekaterina I. Trubnikova, Dmitrii A. Trubnikov, Высшее образование в России 2018 Vol. 27 No. 12 P. 29–38
The article analyzes modern problems and trends of development of the system of higher education. The persistent expansion of regulation and uncontrolled growth of bureaucracy increase dependence of regulated areas on private interests of those who have access to the regulatory machine. This tendency has not bypassed the academic sphere, and, in many instances, there ...
Added: October 15, 2019
Solovyov K., Новое литературное обозрение 2017 № 2 (144) С. 113–121
The article is devoted to the Russian bureaucrat’s vision of the bureaucratic empire that actually they represented in the Russian empire. On the eve of the XXth century the state service recruited the best and the most ambitious students who had different points of view – and at the same time the high qualification. It ...
Added: October 9, 2019
Solovyov K., М.: Издательство "Политическая энциклопедия", 2018.
Монография посвящена функционированию политической системы Российской империи в 1881–1905 гг., прежде всего механизмам законотворчества. Исследование проведено на основе широкого круга источников, значительная часть которых не опубликована. В центре внимания автора – государственные учреждения, политические институты, законотворческие практики и круг идей, в котором вращались представители высшей бюрократии изучаемого периода. Особое внимание уделено неформализованным практикам подготовки и принятия ...
Added: October 8, 2019