POLIS Contents № 6 - 2012

PRESENTING THIS ISSUE

Editorial Introduction. Presenting This Issue + Address of the RAPS Leadership

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THEME OF THE ISSUE. STUDYING POLITICAL CHANGE: A METHODOLOGICAL APPROACH

The Authors Conceptualizing Contemporary Development

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Semenenko I.S. “Homo Politicus” Facing Alternative Political Developments: Rethinking the Individual Dimension of Politics

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Pantin V.I. Studying the Prospects of International Political Developments: Problems of a Methodological Synthesis

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Lapkin V.V. «Modernization» and «Capitalism»: Rethinking Contemporary Political Change

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Peregudov S.P. Monitory Democracy: Building New Relations Between State and Society

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Prokhorenko I.L. On Methodological Problems of Contemporary Political Spaces Analysis

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IDEAS FOR FURTHER CULTIVATION

Akhremenko A.S., Petrov A.P. Political Institutions, Efficiency and Deprivation: Essay of Analogue Computation

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Inozemtzev V.L. «Preventive Democracy»: Concept; Prerequisites of Emergence; Prospects for Russia

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RUSSIA TODAY

Kupryashin G.L. Governing through Institutional Changes

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Rozov N.S. Randall Collins’ Theories of Historical Dynamics and Context of Russian Politics

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Kozyreva P.M., Smirnov A.I. Individual Security and the Problem of Counteracting Criminality

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FROM A POLITICAL SCIENTIST'S VIEWPOINT

Wainshtein G.I. Demography Factor of the «Social State» Evolution in Europe

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Kuvaldina A.V. Ethnic and Racial Minorities in the USA: Ideological Orientations, Political Preferences, Electoral Activity

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REFLECTING ON MATTERS IN PRINT

Chugrov S.V. Mikhail Gorshkov’s Experience of Social Diagnostics

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Smorgunov L.V. Political Identity and the Concept of the Political

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