POLIS Contents ¹ 1 - 2012



PRESENTING THIS ISSUE
Editorial Introduction. Presenting This Issuep.4

THEME OF THE ISSUE: TRADITIONS – DRAG OR RESOURCE FOR MODERNIZATION IN THE ORIENT?
Tu Weiming Implications of the Rise of “Confucian” East Asiap.7
Stepanyants M.T. Sociocultural Bases for the Modernization of Indiap.26
Dubson B.I. Israeli Ultra-Orthodoxes and Modern Societyp.43

THE SPACE OF CULTURE: IDEOLOGY AND MORALITY IN MODERN WORLD
Musikhin G.I. Ideology and Culturep.53
Martyanov V.S., Fishman L.G. Overcoming Capitalism: from Moral Collapse to Moral Revolution?p.63

HISTORY RECENT AND REMOTE
Brown A. Margaret Thatcher and the End of the “Cold War”p.76
Korotetskaya L.V. Particular Features of the Intellectual Patriotic Discourse in Germany of the 1990sp.92
Kubyshkina Ye.V. 100 US Political Discourse under the Presidency of G. Bush Jr.: Evolution of Metaphorsp.100

LABORATORY: POLITICAL MANAGEMENT IN MODERN WORLD
Akhremenko A.S. Estimation of the State’s Effectiveness in the Production of Public Services: a Theoretical Model and the Methods of Measuringp.113
Shebanova M.A. International Bureaucracy as the Stratum of Transnational Political Elitesp.136

RUSSIA TODAY
Round Table of the Political Science Faculty, Moscow State University Russian Society and Power on the Eve of the Electionsp.149
Sungurov A.Yu., Zakharova O.S., Petrova L.A., Raspopov N.P. Mediator Institutions and Their Development in Contemporary Russia. 1. Public Chambers and Consultative Councils: Federal and Regional Experiencep.165

REFLECTING ON MATTERS IN PRINT
Lipkin A.I. On the “Track” of Russian History and Possibility of a “Critical Turning Point” p.179
Fedotova N.N. Mass Media and the Post Communist Transformationsp.186
Karelova L.B., Chugrov S.V. Tu Weiming and the “New Confucianism”p.188