POLIS Contents № 2 - 2004

PRESENTING THIS ISSUE

Editorial Introduction. Presenting This Issue

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SOCIUM AND POWER

Gaman-Golutvina O.V. Russia’ Regional Elites: Whom They Consist of, and What Are the Tendencies of Their Evolution (I)

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Nechayev V.D. Territorial Organization of Local Self-Government in Russia’s Regions (Comparative Analysis of the Instances of the Kursk and Belgorod Oblasts)

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Kynev A.V. Transition to Mixed Elections in the Regions: “Compulsory Transformation”

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VERSION

Lyubarsky G.Yu. Theory of a Complex Social System’s Dynamics (I)

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Larsen S.U., Hersvik J. Downfall and Restoration of a Democratic Regime in Portugal (Essay of Applying Games Theory to the Analysis of Historical Events)

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INTERPRETATIONS

Melville A.Yu. On Trajectories of Post-Communist Transformations

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Lebedeva T.P. Liberal Democracy as Orienting Objective for Post-Totalitarian Transformations

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Glebova I.I. The Power Party

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VIRTUAL WORKSHOP: METHODOLOGY OF POLITICAL SCIENCE

Pecherskaya N.V. To Know or to Call: Metaphor as Cognitive Resource of Social Knowledge

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Parshin P.B. Semiotics of Social Institutions and the Disputes about “Intellectual Property”

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POLITICAL DISCOURSE

Solovyov A.I. Political Discourse of Mediacracies: Problems of the Information Epoch

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Orlova G.A. Denunciatory Information as Practiced in Russia, and Its Metamorphoses (Notes on Poetics of Political Communication)

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CHAIR

Konyshev V.N. On Kenneth Waltz’ Neorealism

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LIFE IN SCIENCE

Kulinchenko A.V. Political Parties and the Development of Democracy: Experience of Russia and of Germany

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BIBLIO-REVIEW

Ionov I.N. Within the Dimensions of Global Political History

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Kosolapov N.A. History of International Relations: Verification of a Scientific Conception

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Tzukanov A.L. Global Approach to the Problem

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Khatuntzev S.V. Diplomat (Documentary Heritage)

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