№ 3 - 2012
Lebedeva Ye.B., Busygina I.M.
Administrative-Territorial Division in Russian Federation: Reforms and the Factor of Political Regime

Analyzed in the article is the politics of transforming administrative-territorial division in a federative state, exampled by foreign federations and by five cases of uniting subjects in the Russian Federation; revealed are the influence of the type of political regime on the process of reforms and the key factors determining the necessity of breaking the institutional balance in federative states; the main effects of territorial reforms are also analyzed.