Academic journal “Political Science Issues”. Issue 4 (8). 2012.

THEORY AND METHODOLOGY OF POLITICAL SCIENCE

POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS AND PROCESSES

PROBLEMS OF POLITICAL MODERNIZATION

ETHNOPOLITICAL PROCESSES

PARTY SYSTEM IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND GLOBALIZATION

Our authors № 4-2012

 

THEORY AND METHODOLOGY OF POLITICAL SCIENCE

T.V. KARADZHED.Sc. (philosophy), Professor, Head of the Moscow State Pedagogical University’s Political Science and Sociology Department

POLITICAL SPACE/TIME: CONTENT OF CONCEPT (Continuation)

In the article, the author studies the content of the concept of “political space” and analyzes forms and structure of the political space.

Key words: political space, geopolitics, category, structure, form.

N.V. SHULENINAPhD (philosophical science), The senior lecture at the Political Science Department of the Russian Peoples’ Friendship University

D. D. POLONSKAYApostgraduate student of the Department of political sciences of the Russian Peoples` Friendship University

IDEOLOGY OF CONSERVATISM: IDEAS AND MYTHS

The article considers the main principles of ideology of conservatism and the most popular political myths within this ideology.

Key words: political myth, political mythology, political ideology, ideology of conservatism.

O.A. BOGACHEVAPh.D. (political science)

U.A. BOGACHEVPh.D. (political science)

ORIGINS OF DIRECT DEMOCRACY: THEORETICAL ANALYSIS

In the article, the authors specify the content of the term “direct democracy” in its theoretical meaning and analyze its evolution. They study the origins of direct democracy.

Key words: direct democracy, state structure, regime, effectiveness, power, society.

E.F. SAITOVAaide to a deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation’s Federal Assembly of the VI convocation, assistant executive coordinator of the All-Russian People’s Front in the Republic of Bashkortostan

EVOLUTION IN FORM OF ADMINISTRATION IN CONTEMPORARY STATES: PROBLEMS OF CLASSIFICATION

The form of administration is regarded as the means of organizing supreme state rule in a country. Its external signs are: procedure of the formation of highest ruling bodies, principles of mutual relations between them, the participation of citizens (ballots) in the election of these bodies. Under contemporary conditions, external factors clearly become insufficient for exactly determining the form of rule of the state. During the globalization, borders between classical forms of administration wear away, and the government is distinguished by definite practical performances rather than accessory to the established political stereotypes.

Key words: form of administration, evolution, transformation, factors, principles, monarchy, republic.

R.R. NASYROVjunior fellow of the Centre for Political and Legal Studies of the Eurasian Scientific Research Institute of Legal Problems, Ufa

POWER AND ADMINISTRATION AS POLITICAL SCIENCE CATEGORY: METHODS, TECHNOLOGIES, MODERNIZATION

The article examines the concepts of “power” and “administration” and reveals contemporary technologies of political power and its varieties and suggests concrete methods of political and cultural modernization of ruling bodies of the Russian Federation.

Key words: power, administration, political system, democracy, violence, law, technologies, cultural centralism.

B.B. PANCHENKO post-graduate student in the political science and sociology department of the MPGU

CONCEPT OF JUSTICE AS POLITICAL MORAL DIMENSION IN RUSSIAN TRADITION

In the article, the author examines the problem of justice as a principle of cooperation between the state and society under contemporary Russian conditions. Studying the given problem, he arrives at a conclusion that for an effective development of the political system further, the formation of stable institutions of civil society and a state govern by the rule-of-law, there is need to make theoretical formulation of principles and values of justice and their practical implementation in social and economic and political areas. This suggests the studying of reasons and factors that led to the formation and development of the concept about justice in Russian political culture.

Key words: justice, political system, tradition, state, administration, civil society, institution, public administration, society, power.

SARGON KHAIDAYAPost-graduate student of the Department of political sciences of the Russian Peoples` Friendship University

THEORETICAL FOUNDATION OF STUDYING POLITICAL PROCESS: SYSTEMATIC APPROACH

The article is dedicated to studying political processes using systematic approach. The author reveals the methods of systematic approach and analyzes political process, its content and scientific model.

Key words: political process, systematic approach, research, system.

POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS AND PROCESSES

Yu.A. DEMYANENKOPh.D. (sociology), Rector of Pskov State University

PSKOV AND NOVGOROD AS THE LARGEST RUSSIAN REGIONS

The article examines political and legal specifics in the integration of entities in Russia in the context of contemporary political realities as well as the possibility of uniting Pskov and Novgorod regions.

Key words: federalism, integration, merging, uniting, entity, region, constitution of the Russian Federation, Federal Districts, autonomous regions, administrative and territorial units, national and territorial units, political regionlistics, ethnopolitics, national and federative relations.

R.K. ISKUZHINPh.D. (law), Minister of Land and Property Relations of the Republic of Bashkortostan, merited lawyer of the republic, Corresponding Member of the RANS

NEGOTIATED REGULATION IN RUSSIAN FEDERATION: CONSTITUTIONAL AND LEGAL ASPECT

The article is dedicated to the analysis of the role and place of a treaty in the Russian constitutional and legal system, specifics of how it is functioning in Russia’s political system and revelation of the specifics of forming the idea about it in the Russian jurisdiction.

Key words: treaty, constitution, delimitation of powers, centralization, decentralization, federalism, Unitarianism, conflict, consensus.

S.A. BEDYAGIN the graduate student of the Chair of Cultural Science and Social Communication of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration

SOCIAL WELFARE STATE: PATRONAGE OF THE LEISURE INDUSTRY

The article reflects the abstract and applied problems of state social policy in the sphere of leisure, concerned with the healthy way living for Russian society out of industrial into postindustrial evolution modus. At the same time, the special role belongs to national management in production-consumption of physical training services for population, cultivating physical, mental, and moral health of present man.

Key words: social policy, authority, industry of leisure, sport, physical training, service, consumer, health, way of living.

R.R. KARIMOVcandidate of the department of political science, sociology and philosophy at the Bashkir Academy of Public Service and Management under the President of the Republic of Bashkortostan

PATRIOTISM AS FORM OF RUSSIA’S CIVIL IDENTITY: ON THE BASIS OF I.A. ILIN’S DOCTRINE

The article is based on the thesis about multidimensionality of patriotism and its multilevel as the Russian transition society’s system-making and consolidating basis. It establishes patriotism’s ties with the state as fatherland’s political form.

Key words: patriotism, ethnos, nation, love, motherland, structure, balance, culture, system.

V.A. KADOKHOVpost-graduate student at the National and Federative Relations Department of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration head of the secretariat under the head of the Administration, deputy head of the local self-administration staff of the city of Vladikavkaz

LOCAL SELF-RULE IN THE SYSTEM OF RELATIONS OF POWER IN THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION (REGIONAL ASPECT)

The local self-rule is examined as an institution of democracy and formation of civil society. Its significance increases in the process of inter-action with regional ruling bodies. This social institution helps find an optimum compromise between common state interests and the interests of local communities.

Key words: local government, municipalities, government agencies, separation of powers.

K.V. NIKOLAEVPost-graduate student at the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration

RELATIONS BETWEEN PARLIAMENT AND GOVERNMENT UNDER THE CONDITIONS OF CENTRALIZATION OF RUSSIAN ADMINISTRATIVE SYSTEM

In the article, the author studies the issue of cooperation between Parliament and the government. He analyzes the specifics of above cooperation under the conditions of centralization of public administration.

Key words: state, parliament, government, cooperation, relations, power, centralization, administration.

PROBLEMS OF POLITICAL MODERNIZATION

S.B. RADKEVICHD.Sc. (political science)

GREAT STALIN AND WOODEN SWORDS (“WHITE” MODERNIZATION AS HISTORICAL CHANCE FOR PUTIN’S RUSSIA)

The article examines two models of the Russian society’s development – neo-Stalinist (imperial) and “white” (democratic) models. It has been proved that real modernization is possible only on “white” principles. Participants of such modernization are determined. They are “old” supporters of democracy and unofficial organizations of the new wave.

Key words: Stalin, imperialism, Russia, state, modernization, state corporations, bureaucrats, Bolotnaya Square, Zakharova Avenue, unofficial community, the Internet.

V.A. KHOLOPOVCandidate of Political Science, Candidate of Economic Science, Professor of the Department State and Municipal management and economic theory at the RSRU, Deputy Chairman of the Ryazan City Duma, Of the Municipal Head

CURRENT TRENDS OF MODERNIZATION OF ORGANIZATIONAL AND LEGAL MECHANISM OF MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS INSTITUTE IN RUSSIA

The article deals with the institutional design of the existing system of municipal elections. It reviews the efficiency of innovation in the electoral system at the municipal level based on analysis of carried out in April – May 2011 by Public scientific Advisory Council of the CEC RF expert poll (questioning of representatives of the municipal community). The article deals with current trends in improving of the organizational and law regulation of the election of municipalities heads , including the latest legislative initiatives at the federal level. The author also analyzes the existing traditions in the practice of the implementation of the two models of elections of municipalities heads and suggests directions of perfection of the mechanisms and institutional framework of modernization of the municipal election institution.

Key words: municipal elections, the head of the municipality, local government, local community, modernization of the political system.

ETHNOPOLITICAL PROCESSES

A.V. VYSOTSKY candidate of the National and Federative Relations Department of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration

THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL ASPECTS IN THE ANALYSIS OF PLACE OF ETHNIC FACTOR IN REGIONAL CONFLICTS

Scientific apprehension of the ethnic factor in regional conflicts is one of the most urgent problems in modern times. The range of the concept of “region” is being emphasized. Regional conflicts in federations, the impact of globalization and effect of glocalization on the character of regional conflicts were studied.

Key words: regional conflicts, ethnic factor, regionalism, federalism, globalization, gloclization, ethno-national contradictions.

K.M. MAGOMEDOVPost-graduate student at the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration

THE IMPACT OF ETHNOPOLITICS ON THE RUSSIAN STATE SECURITY IN THE CONTEXT OF ETHNOCULTURAL VARIETY IN THE GLOBALIZING WORLD

The article examines the Russian and global experience in solving ethnopolitical conflicts as well as the influence of ethnopolitics on Russia’s state security. Its author analyzes ethnopolitical processes in the former Yugoslavia that led to an escalation of the conflict across its territory. Moreover, he examines the ethnopolitical situation in the North Caucasus.

Key words: ethnopolitics, ethno-political processes, multiculturalism, national policy, national security, globalization.

PARTY SYSTEM IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES

S.I. CHERNYSHOVProfessor at the Political Science Department of the Peoples’ Friendship University

E.A. KOPALKINANews Editor of IA “Interfax”

PARTY SYSTEM IN THE NETHERLANDS

In the article, authors analyze the party system in the Netherlands, the legal status of political parties and the structure of the party system. They examine the country’s economy, state structure and electoral system. They also analyze the results of the 2012 elections.

Key words: state structure, parties, party system, elections, electoral system, the Netherlands.

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND GLOBALIZATION

D.L. TSYBAKOVPh.D. (political science), Doctoral student in the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and the Public Administration

COUNTERING MILITARIZATION UNDER THE CONDITIONS OF POST-BIPOLAR WORLD

The article is dedicated to the topic of militarization of politics in the post-bipolar world. The author examines the specifics of contemporary militarism and reveals priorities in countering militarization in the activity of states and international organizations.

Key words: militarism, militarization, post-bipolar world, international relations, international politics, national security.

M.Kh. YUSUPOVdeputy of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation VI convocation

STATE CONTROL OVER IMMIGRATION PROCESS IN CONTEMPORARY WORLD: POLITICAL SCIENCE ASPECT

The article examines the models of immigration policy pursued in Western Europe and makes a relative analysis of measures of the state controlled immigration processes in Russia and other countries under the conditions of globalization and regionalization.

Key words: immigration, migration, politics, repatriation, remigration, multi-culturalism, civilization, conflict.

A.P. POPKHADZEpost-graduate student at the National and Federative Relations Department of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration

SPECIFICS OF GEORGIA’S POLITICAL PROCESS

The importance of the role that is now played by Georgia in the South Caucasus zone in no small measures is determined by the specifics of Tbilisi’s regional policy. The Georgian leaders and the entire Georgian political elite try to play the role of the region’s political leader by suggesting itself as a strategic ally and guide of the regional interests of the Western countries. In view of this, any public and political and social and economic process in Georgia is important from the standpoint of their influence not only on the situation in the republic but also the Caucasus region as a whole.

Key words: Georgia, administration, political power, society, interest, influence, political process.