№ 4 - 2000
B’eloborodova I.N., Shinkovsky M.Yu., Latypov R.A., Nikolayev A.N., Mansurova G.M., Karabushchenko P.L., Discussion.
At the 2nd All-Russian Congress of Political Scientists

In the journal’s traditional rubric - «University Community» - which is made up with support lent by the Ford Foundation, we acquaint the readers of this issue with scientific research work being done in higher school as demonstrated by some results of it, offered by higher-school representatives who took part in the proceedings of the 2nd All-Russian Congress of Political Scientists (April 21 to 23, 2000). Ample and effective representation of universitarians - professors and senior lecturers, assistants and post-graduate students at the Congress proved a significant manifestation of positive development of political science in our country. The journal, obviously, cannot as amply present the contributions by the participants, not even one tenth of them, for they were more than half-thousand. This time the Editorial Board proposes to show the diversity of Russia’s political science in so far as both its geographical spread and its subject- matter variety are concerned. The rubric comprises research accounts (perforce, unfortunately, in a most condensed form) by several universitarians (just several of the many who appeared at the Congress with their theses) from different regions of our huge country - regions where political science centres either have already formed or are in the process of formation: I.N.B’eloborodova (senior lecturer, Arkhangelsk) - «The «Northern Dimension» in Europe: Search for Geocivilizational Coordinates»; M.Yu.Shinkovsky (a well-known expert, Vladivostok) - «A Russian Region as a Subject of Economy Globalization»; R.A.Latypov (senior lecturer, Birsk, Bashkortostan) - «Post-Soviet Russia and the Experience of Authoritarian Democracies»; Professor A.N.Nikolayev (Saratov) - «The Administrative Resource in Regional Election Campaigns»; G.M.Mansurova (senior lecturer, Kazan) - «Paradoxes of the Will Expression in Tatarstan: Electoral Games of the Population and the Stakes of the Political Elite»; Professor P.L.Karabushchenko (Astrakhan) - «Political Education for Elites to Form». These works mainly present scientific analysis and interpretation of current factual material, as well as of political, social, and economic processes proper to the respective regions the authors represent and, in certain cases, to Russia as a whole, too; anyway, the content of the articles published is quite adequately signified by their titles.