POLIS Contents № 4 - 2003

PRESENTING THIS ISSUE

Editorial Introduction. Presenting This Issue

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PROBLEMS AND JUDGMENTS

Gelman V.Ya. Institutional Construction and Informal Institutions in Modern Russian Politics 6

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Daugavet A.B. Informal Practices of the Russian Elite (An Approbation of Cognitive Approach) 26

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Barsukova S.Yu. Informal Economy in the Mirror of Ideologies 39

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INTERPRETATIONS

Smorgunov L.V. Comparative Analysis of Politico-Administrative Reforms: from New State Management to the “Governance” Conception 50

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Shadrin A.Ye. Orientations and Parameters of Russian Administrative Reform 59

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Fyodorov K.G. The Policy in the Sphere of Local Taxation in Russia 71

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VERSION

Lapkin V.V., Pantin V.I. Late Antiquity and Modernity: an Essay of Comparative Political Analysis 82

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Allenov S.G. The “Conservative Revolution” of the 1920s to Early 1930s in Germany (Problems of Interpretation) 94

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SOCIUM AND POWER

Dakhin A.V. Transformations of Regional Elites (With Nizhegorodskaya Oblast as Example) 108

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Lyubarev A.Ye. Electoral Systems and Russian Electoral Legislation 120

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VIRTUAL WORKSHOP: METHODOLOGY OF POLITICAL SCIENCE

Petrov K.Ye. Structure of the “Terrorism” Concept 130

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Filippov Yu.M. Electoral Behaviour of the Electors to the State Duma of the Beginning of the 20th Century 142

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THESAURUS

Sartori G. Concept Misformation in Comparative Politics (II) 152

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DIXI!

Melville A.Yu. So What’s Happened to the “Russian Choice”? 161

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Ufimtzev V.V. But Has There Been Any Choice? 165

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CHAIR

Shcherbinin A.I. What, After All, Will Become of Our Motherland and of Ourselves? (Biased Remarks on Russian Political Science and on Problems of Political Education) 169

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Shcherbakov A.Ye. The Place of Myth in Political Ideology 175

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LIFE IN SCIENCE

Information. Potential of Socio-Humanities and Problems of the Development of Modern Russian Society 181

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Information. Conference of Social Sciences Professional Associations 183

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