The Study of Power in Urban Communities: the Russian perspective
Research Article
Acknowledgments
The work was supported by the Russian Humanitarian Science Foundation (grant 14-03-00151) and the HSE Scientific Foundation
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Ledyaev V.G. The Study of Power in Urban Communities: the Russian perspective. Vlast i Elity (Power and Elites). 2015. Vol. 2. No. 2. P. 301-325. (in Russ.).
Abstract
Can foreign cognitive models be successfully applied to the study of Russian politics? This issue is discussed via the analysis of the application of American research models for the study of power in European and Russian urban communities. For a long time the US theories has not been widely recognized outside of the US. The situation has changed since the 1990s with the emergence of the “urban regime theory” which overcame the shortcomings of earlier approaches to the study of power in local communities and gradually began to be used by researchers of Western and Eastern Europe in the authentic (classic) version and (more often) after certain modifications. In the European versions the concept of “urban regime” has become wider and more flexible that has allowed to take into account the specifics of the new political and institutional context. The first empirical studies of power in Russian urban communities performed in the tradition of urban regime analysis showed that despite the significant differences between Russian and western political and cultural contexts including those associated with the weakness of the legal framework and the strong authoritarian component of the Russian policy, the international experience is definitely relevant. It helps to clarify research issues, develop working hypotheses, systematize existing theoretical and conceptual resources, classify power forms and regimes, put the Russian power studies in a comparative perspective.
Keywords:
power, small town, local politics, urban regimes, foreign experience
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4. Ledyaev V.G. Sotsiologiya vlasti. Teoriya i opyit empiricheskogo issledovaniya vlasti [Ledyaev V.G. Sociology of power. Theory and Empirical Research of power]. Moscow, Izdatelskiy dom Vyisshey shkolyi ekonomiki, 2012. P. 393-395 (in Russian).
5. Ledyaev V.G. Sotsiologiya vlasti: teoriya gorodskih politicheskih rezhimov [Ledyaev V.G. Sociology of power: theory of urban political regimes] // Sotsiologicheskiy zhurnal. 2006. № 3-4. P. 46-68 (in Russian).
6. Ledyaev V.G. Sravnitelnyie issledovaniya vlasti v gorodskih soobschestvah raznyih stran: proekt Delberta Millera [Ledyaev V.G. The comparative study of power in the urban communities of different countries: draft Delbert Miller] // Sravnitelnaya politika. 2010. № 1. P. 73-90 (in Russian).
7. Ledyaev V.G., Ledyaeva O.M. Mnogomernost politicheskoy vlasti: opyit empiricheskogo issledovaniya [Ledyaev V.G., Ledjaeva O.M. The multidimensionality of the political power: practice of the Empirical study] // Elityi i vlast v rossiyskom sotsialnom prostranstve / Pod red. A.V. Duki. SPb.: Intersotsis, 2008. P. 205-224 (in Russian).
8. Pustovoyt Yu.A. Gorodskie politicheskie rezhimyi: koordinatsiya vnutrielitnogo vzaimodeystviya v krupnyih industrialnyih gorodah [Pustovoyt Y.A. Urban political regimes: the coordination of intra-elite interactions in the major industrial cities] // Gosudarstvennoe upravlenie. Elektronnyiy vestnik. 2014. Vyip. 46. P. 85-106 (in Russian).
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10. Regionalnyie elityi Severo-Zapada Rossii [Regional elites in the North-West of Russia] / Ed. A.V. Duka. SPb, Aleteyya, 2001; Chirikova A.E. Regionalnyie elityi Rossii [Chirikova A.E. The regional elite of Russia]. Moscow, Aspekt Press, 2010 (in Russian).
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12. Ryizhenkov S. Lokalnyie rezhimyi i «vertikal vlasti» [Rizhenkov S. Local modes and the “vertical of power”] // Neprikosnovennyiy zapas. 2010. № 2. P. 63-72 (in Russian).
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33. Stone C.N. The elite view // Community Power: Directions for Future Research / Ed. by Robert J. Waste. Beverly Hills: Sage Publications, 1986. P. 84.
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