POLIS Contents ¹ 3 - 2006



PRESENTING THIS ISSUE
Editorial Introduction. Presenting This Issuep.5

VERSION
Rozov N.S. The Cyclic Character of Russian Political History as a Disease: Is Recovery Possible?p.8
Dakhin A.V. State Power System in Russia: Phenomenological Transitp.29
Makarenko S.A. Institutional Mechanisms of Autocracy Maintenance: the Case of the Genoese Republic on the Threshold of New Timep.41

SOCIUM AND POWER
Blyakher L.Ye., Ogurtzova T.L. Adventures of Power Legitimacy in Russia, or Reviving of the Presumption of Culpabilityp.53
Gaman-Golutvina O.V. Russian Parliamentarism in Historical Retrospection and in Comparative Perspective (II)p.67

RUSSIA TODAY
Kalinin K.O. Factors of Electoral Demand at Russian Political Market (With the Elections of the Governor of Volgogradskaya Region as Example)p.75
Medvedev Yu.S. Nomination of Candidates in Single-Member Districts by Parties at the Elections to Russia’s Regional Legislaturesp.91
Nechayev V.D. The Functioning of the Two-Level Models of the Local Self-Government Territorial Organization in RF (With the Voronezhskaya and Orlovskaya Regions as Example)p.106

HISTORY OF POLITICAL THOUGHT
Filippov A.F. Political Esoterics and Political Technique in Carl Schmitt’s Conceptionp.121
Nazarchuk A.V. Nicklas Luhman’s Theoretico-Political Viewsp.136
Roshchin Ye.N. Quentin Skinner’s History of Notionsp.150

RETROACTIVE COMMUNICATION
Petrov K.Ye. Domination of Conceptual Polysemy: “Strong State” in Russian Political Discoursep.159

LIFE IN SCIENCE
Information. Political Science Chroniclep.184