Polis. Political Studies. No 1 2012

Polis. Political Studies. No 1 2012

Topic:
Traditions – drag or resource for modernization in the orient?

CONTENT:

PRESENTING THIS ISSUE

Presenting this issue (p. 4-6)

THEME OF THE ISSUE: TRADITIONS – DRAG OR RESOURCE FOR MODERNIZATION IN THE ORIENT?

Implications of the rise of «confucian» East Asia (p. 7-25)

Stepanyants M.T.

Sociocultural bases for the modernization of India (p. 26-42)

Israeli ultra-orthodoxes and modern society (p. 43-52)

THE SPACE OF CULTURE: IDEOLOGY AND MORALITY IN MODERN WORLD

Ideology and culture (p. 53-62)

Martyanov V.S., Fishman L.G.

Overcoming capitalism: from moral collapse to moral revolution? (p. 63-75)

HISTORY RECENT AND REMOTE

Margaret Thatcher and the end of the «Cold War» (p. 76-91)

Korotetskaya L.V.

Particular features of the intellectual patriotic discourse in Germany of the 1990s (p. 92-99)

Kubyshkina Ye.V.

US political discourse under the presidency of G. Bush Jr.: evolution of metaphors (p. 100-112)

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 measuring (p. 113-135)

International bureaucracy as the stratum of transnational political elites (p. 136-148)

Round Table Of The Political Science Faculty, Moscow State University

Russian society and power on the eve of the elections (p. 149-164)

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 experience (p. 165-178)

REFLECTING ON MATTERS IN PRINT

On the «track» of russian history and possibility of a «critical turning point» (p. 179-185)

Mass media and the post communist transformations (p. 186-187)

Karelova L.B., Chugrov S.V.

Tu Weiming and the «New Confucianism» (p. 188-189)

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