POLIS Contents № 4 - 2004

PRESENTING THIS ISSUE

Editorial Introduction. Presenting This Issue

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PROBLEMS AND JUDGMENTS

Karl T.L., Schmitter Ph. Concepts, Assumptions and Hypotheses about Democratization (Reflections on Applicability of the Transitological Paradigm for the Study of Post-Communist Transformations)

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Discussion. Modern Tendencies of the Development of Symbolic Dimensions of Politics and the Concept of Ideology (Materials of a Discussion)

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INTERPRETATIONS

Gelman V.Ya. Political Opposition in Russia: a Vanishing Species?

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Kolosov V.A., Borodulina N.A. Electoral Preferences in Cities and Large Towns of Russia: Types and Stability

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Rabotyazhev N.V. Phenomenon of “Right-Left” Coalition in Russia: National Salvation Front

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Pushkaryova G.V. Political Events as Seen by Russians: Psycological Mechanisms of Perception and of Individual Interpretation

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ORBIS TERRARUM

Zamyatin D.N. Russian Policies of World Development: Images and Their Interpretations

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Kiselyov I.Yu., Smirnova A.G. State Image as a Factor in Foreign Policy Decision Making

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VIRTUAL WORKSHOP: COMPARATIVE POLITICAL SCIENCE

Kovalev V.A., Shabayev Yu.P. Ethnicity and Fellow-Citizenship (Ethno-National Movements in Finno-Ugrian Regions of the Russian Federation)

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Ashikhmina Ya.G., Panov P.V., Podvintzev O.B. On Criteria of Elections Estimation

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Streltzina M.M. Institutional Conditions of Setting Up Governmental Departments in Russia and in the USA (With Russia’s Emergency Situations Ministry and the U.S. Homeland Security Department as Example)

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CHAIR

Degtyarev A.A. Process of Decision-Making-and-Realizing in Public Policy: Dynamic Cycle and Its Main Phases

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Vorobyov D.M. Political Science in the USSR: Formation and Development of a Scientific Community

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BIBLIO-REVIEW

Sokolova O.Ye. Political Linguistscs

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Czepinski S. “Historical Time and Globalization”

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