POLIS Contents № 2 - 2002

PRESENTING THIS ISSUE

Editorial Introduction. Presenting This Issue

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PROBLEMS AND JUDGMENTS

Pantin V.I., Lapkin V.V. Evolutionary Complication of Political Systems: Problems of Methodology and Research

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Merkel B., Croissant A. Formal and Informal Institutions in Defective Democracies (II)

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Pshizova S.N. Financing Political Market: Theoretical Aspects of Practical Problems (II)

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INTERPRETATIONS

Yanitzky O.N. Ecological Politics as a Network Process

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Discussion. Self-Reflection of Politics (Review of the Materials of Two Journals’ Round Table: Voprosy Filosofii and Polis)

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THESAURUS

Eisenstadt S.N. The Paradox of Democratic Regimes: Fragility and Transformability (I)

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ORBIS TERRARUM

Evangelista M. Geopolitics and the Future of the Rusian Federation

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Panarin S.A. Positional-Historical Factors of the Caucasian Politics

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CHAIR

Degtyarev A.A. Theory of Political Decision Making in the Structure of Social and Policy Disciplines

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Kynev A.V. The Presidency Institution in Countries of Central and Eastern Europe as Indicator of the Process of Political Transformation

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DOSSIER

Shvartz Ye.A. The Forthcoming Summit in Johannesburg: What Can Russia Do?

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Sungurov A.Yu. From the Experience of the Development of the Ombudsman Institution in Regions of Rusia

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Nechayev D.N. FRG: from a “Parties State” to a “Public Associations State”?

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BIBLIO-REVIEW

Ashin G.K. The USA: Poitical History in the Key of Historical Political Science

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Volnov V.V. Socialism of a European Cast?

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Malinova O.Yu. “Europe inside Russia”?

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Magun A.V. Time to Change Names

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LIIFE IN SCIENCE

Plyays Ya.A. Russian Political Science at the 20th and 21st Centuries Change-Over

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NEWLY PUBLISHED BOOKS

Information. Newly Published Books

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