POLIS Contents № 6 - 2002

PRESENTING THIS ISSUE

Editorial Introduction. Presenting This Issue

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POLITICAL DISCOURSE

Solovyov A.I. Communication and Culture: Contradictions of the Field of Politics

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Shevchenko A.Yu. Discourse-Analysis of Political Media-Texts

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Meshkova T.A. Socio-Political Aspects of the Global Informatization

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THESAURUS

Dahl R. Prerequisites for the Rise and Consolidation of Polyarchies

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VIRTUAL WORKSHOP: COMPARATIVE POLITICAL SCIENCE

Panov P.V. Transformations of Political Institutions in Russia: Cross-Temporal Comparative Analysis

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Yeliseyev S.M. To Break out of the “Bermudas Triangle”: On Methodology of the Research of Post-Communist Transformations

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SOCIUM AND POWER

Borisov S.V., Dakhin A.V., Makarychev A.S. A Contest with No Gainer: the Recent Mayoral Elections in Nizhniy Novgorod

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Kovalev V.A. Post-Authoritarian Syndrome in a Region (Experience of Komi Republic in the Context of the “Putin Federalism”)

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Lapkin V.V., Pantin V.I. The West in Russian Public Opinion before and after September 11, 2001.

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FEDERALISM: A MULTIDIMENSIONAL MODEL OF RESEARCH

Zakharov A.A. Federalism and the Globalization

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Borodulina N.A. Donor Towns: the Support of the Federal Center or a Source of Regional Conflicts?

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DOSSIER

Rimsky V.L., Sungurov A.Yu. Russian Centers of Public Policy: Experience and Prospects

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Simonyan R.Kh. The Baltic States and the Disintegration of the USSR

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Barabanov O.N. Italy’s Contemporary Foreign Policy Ideology

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BIBLIO-REVIEW

Malinova O.Yu. In Search of Nationalism with a “Plus” Mark?

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Mezhuyev B.V. A Nearly Vanished Trace (“Problems of Idealism” in a New Historical Context)

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Shestopal Ye.B. Electoral Authoritarianism: the Kazakhstan Variant

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LIFE IN SCIENCE

Romanenko L.M. Images of Russian Tolerance

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Khvoshchyov V.Ye. “The Altering Russia: Problems of Security and of the Frontier Policy”

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