Regional politics and corruption (the case of Komi Republic)

Regional politics and corruption (the case of Komi Republic)


Kovalev V.A.

Dr. Sci. (Pol.), Prof., Department of political science and international relations, Syktyvkar State University, Syktyvkar, Russia vant_2000@ mail.ru

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For citation:

Kovalev V.A. Regional politics and corruption (the case of Komi Republic). Sotsiologicheskie issledovaniya [Sociological Studies]. 2017. No 4. P. 147-154




Abstract

On the basis of the scandalous arrest of the head of the Komi Republic regional case of the weakening of political and social institutions was analysed. According to the author, these problems are directly linked to the failure of political modernization and democratization in Russia with a substantial weakening of feedback between society and government, and, in particular, the difficulty for sociologists to diagnose and warn about emerging social problems.


Keywords
regions; political institutions; social research; crisis; modernization; Russian Federation; Komi Republic; corruption; society; state; democracy

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