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• Estonia’s party system today: electoral turbulence and changes in ethno-regional patterns

  ... party scene. The method of comparative systemic analysis is used alongside those adopted in electoral geography. It is concluded that the effect of the ethnic and geographical factors on electoral behaviour is diminishing as a civil society based on civic rather than ethnic principles is emerging in the country. The main drivers of the change are the formation of new parties and coalition-building — both have an immediate effect on how the image of the parties is perceived by voters. Oskolkov,...

• The ethno-political discourse of regional identity in former Yugoslavia: The Bosnian syndrome

  ... The limitrophe ethnocentrism dominant in the regions of former Yugoslavia contributes to increased tension. It is assumed that all political problems of Bosnia and Herzegovina relate to the lack of a common identity, whereas the creation of a strong civic identity will yield more favorable democratic results. 1. Пономарева Е. Г., Рудов Г. А. Балканский передел как зеркало глобализации // Обозреватель — Observer. 2008. № 5....

• Sootechestvenniki (compatriots) in the 19th century: semantic profile based on the data of the National Corpus of the Russian language

  ... in the 18th cen­tury as a merger of the Old Slavic and Old Russian ‘otechestvo’ (fatherland, understood as one’s place of origin) and the French ‘compatriot’. This merger resulted in the formation of two new prototypical meanings: one is civic, collective and elevated, and the other gravitates to ethnicity since it is used to refer to Russians. With the strengthening of state institutions in Russia, the first meaning was bound to dominate and it did at the beginning of the 19th century....

• The philosophical and legal content of Sergey Hessen’s concept of personality

  ... personality-culture-the general will-the state coordinates. The author compares Hessen’s ideas with Bogdan Kistyakovsky’s legal concept. Hessen distinguished between several layers of meaning in the notion of culture — civilizedness, level of education, and civic virtue. He stressed that the personality and culture existed in a dialectical relationship. Hessen emphasised the primacy of personal freedom and the need to distinguish between freedom and power of choice. Acts of choice are random and unpredictable ...

• Social capital: a threat of negative application

  ....2019). 18. Hanifan L. J. The Rural School Community Centre // Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences. 1916. Vol. 67. Р. 130—138. 19. Lappé M., Du Bois Р. М. Building Social Capital without Looking Backward // National Civic Review. 1997. Vol. 86. Р. 119—128. 20. Likert R. The Human Organization. N. Y., 1967. 21. Loury G. A Dynamic Theory of Racial Income Differences // Women, Minor­ities, and Employment Discrimination. Lexington, 1977. Р. 153—188. 22. Niceforo ...

• Geopolitical development potential of the Russian exclusive region: search for key strategy and mechanisms for its implementation in new conditions

  ... geopolitical po­tential of development, by comparing various theo­retical and practical solu­tions, the authors search for mechanisms that would allow a regional society to develop an adaptive strategy that can ensure the absolute priority of all-Russian civic identity and effective social, economic and humanitarian cooper­ation with its Baltic neighbors. Such a mechanism could be the expansion of cross-border cooperation in non-political scope. 1. Балтийский регион как полюс ...

• The concepts of citizenship and estate in Russian history — conti­nuity and / or intermittence

  ... Dergunova. Moscow. pp. 145—220 (in Russ.). Radaev, V. V. and Shkaratan, O. I., 1996. Sotsial’naya stratifikatsiya [Social stratifi­cation]. Moscow (in Russ.). Alexopoulos, G., 2006. Soviet Citizenship, More or Less: Rights, Emotions, and States of Civic Belonging. Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, 7 (3), pp. 487—528. Brubaker, R., 1992. Citizenship and Nationhood in France and Germany. Cambridge (Mass.): Cambridge University Press. Burbank, J., 2006. An Imperial Rights Regime: ...

• The Nature of Appearance in Kant’s Transcendentalism: A Seman- tico-Cognitive Analysis

  .... In: S. L. Katrechko, ed. 2017. Proceedings of the International Workshop “Transcendental Turn in Contemporary Philosophy (2): Kant Appearance, its Ontological and Epistemological Status” (Moscow, April 26—30, 2018). M.: Foundation center for Civic Initiatives, pp. 26-27, 79-86, [online]. Available at: https://elibrary.ru/item.asp?id=30560029 [Accessed 11 May 2018]. Stang, N., 2016. Kant’s Transcendental Idealism. In: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, [online]. Available at: https://plato....