POLIS Contents ¹ 4 - 2003



PRESENTING THIS ISSUE
Editorial Introduction. Presenting This Issuep.5

PROBLEMS AND JUDGMENTS
Gelman V.Ya. Institutional Construction and Informal Institutions in Modern Russian Politics 6p.6
Daugavet A.B. Informal Practices of the Russian Elite (An Approbation of Cognitive Approach) 26p.26
Barsukova S.Yu. Informal Economy in the Mirror of Ideologies 39p.39

INTERPRETATIONS
Smorgunov L.V. Comparative Analysis of Politico-Administrative Reforms: from New State Management to the “Governance” Conception 50p.50
Shadrin A.Ye. Orientations and Parameters of Russian Administrative Reform 59p.59
Fyodorov K.G. The Policy in the Sphere of Local Taxation in Russia 71p.71

VERSION
Lapkin V.V., Pantin V.I. Late Antiquity and Modernity: an Essay of Comparative Political Analysis 82p.82
Allenov S.G. The “Conservative Revolution” of the 1920s to Early 1930s in Germany (Problems of Interpretation) 94p.94

SOCIUM AND POWER
Dakhin A.V. Transformations of Regional Elites (With Nizhegorodskaya Oblast as Example) 108p.108
Lyubarev A.Ye. Electoral Systems and Russian Electoral Legislation 120p.120

VIRTUAL WORKSHOP: METHODOLOGY OF POLITICAL SCIENCE
Petrov K.Ye. Structure of the “Terrorism” Concept 130p.130
Filippov Yu.M. Electoral Behaviour of the Electors to the State Duma of the Beginning of the 20th Century 142p.142

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

DIXI!
Melville A.Yu. So What’s Happened to the “Russian Choice”? 161p.161
Ufimtzev V.V. But Has There Been Any Choice? 165p.165

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) 169p.169
Shcherbakov A.Ye. The Place of Myth in Political Ideology 175p.175

LIFE IN SCIENCE
Information. Potential of Socio-Humanities and Problems of the Development of Modern Russian Society 181p.181
Information. Conference of Social Sciences Professional Associations 183p.183