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In politics if we consider complex social systems and processes manifests itself the dichotomy between “stability and manageability” of a political system and “socio-political diversity” which brings modernization impulses that are making political systems more diverse. This is especially noticeable for the states in transition with anocratic political regimes and supranational entities. This kind of social dichotomy, however, should not be confused with the pure dichotomy between democratic and authoritar...

The paper considers the problems of methodical approaches to the assessment of the activities of large, medium and small businesses in the region and determining their role in the social and economic development of the region. Few attention is paid to the analysis of the activities of enterprises in regional studies, during developing strategies at the federal and regional levels and while working out the regional policy measures. The methodology for assessing the activities of complex of enterprises in the region...

The advent of neoliberal capitalism at the beginning of the 1980s led to the rise and media promotion of celebrity philanthropy. Groundbreaking events in the media affirmed celebrity philanthropy, for example Bob Geldof's organisation of the Live Aid concert in 1985 with the aim of collecting aid for the hungry in Africa. Geldof's example was an inspiration for other celebrities such as the musician Bono Vox, the actress Angelina Jolie to engage in philanthropic activities. In the analysis of their philanthropic a...

This article is devoted for studying the forms and directions of cooperation between Ukraine and African countries, the analysis of the negative and positive aspects of this process, its perspectives and role in modern world politics and economics. The relevance of the research topic comes from the need to study the process of cooperation between the countries of the developing regions of the world in the economic and political spheres. Secondary actors of world politics are the objects of study in all three main ...

Nowadays we face with the challenge of managerialism that constructs what is called common sense in social management, i.e. which could be interpreted as "obvious" criteria of evaluation concerning purposes and methods of management actions’ implementation. The ideological essence of managerialism demonstrates itself through the activity of groups of interests that is presented as interest of all “progressive” members of society. These groups of interests include state officials, “academic bureaucracy”, m...

There are many of challenges for good governance and democracy in 21st century - fake news, post-truth argumentation style, rise of populism through social media, rise of populism in reality, etc. The backbone of problem is not fragmentation of views and opposition to government in power - on contrary - this always will be the source of fruitful decision making in democracies; the problem is ability to deliver information from government to people and vice versa to ensure objective discussion. So called Digital Ag...

The article deals with the actual problem of the evolution of Chinese foreign policy in East Asia in recent decades. Historically, the region is a sphere of special interests of China. After the end of the Cold War era, the balance of power in the Asia-Pacific region shifted in favor of the US-Japan bloc, but in modern conditions of economic weakening of Japan and losing of the military and political superiority on a global scale of the United States, and in the situation of strengthening Russia as an important pl...

Under condition of dominance of the Russian etatist political model, crisis of democratic institutions, problems of civil and political rightsВ’ exercise by certain social groups, and with a relatively low level of political and civic engagement, the wide dissemination of civic and social initiatives could engage citizens in the tackling problems at the local, regional and federal levels. By the means of activity approach, case study and taking into account citizens' motivation the author defined civic and social ...

The article actualizes the information societyВ’s formation as a new postindustrial form of society's socio-economic organization based on the mass use of information and telecommunication technologies (ICT). ICT development index (IDI) provided by the International Telecommunications Union annually shows the progress of ICT being accessible to more and more people around the globe. IDI average value for all countries gained 0.18 points in 2016-2017. The growing pace of social development is accompanied by a chang...

Small towns have a crucial role in the formation of the communal political process in the Czech Republic. Small towns are a place where the sphere of independent politics, associations of independent political associations and mixed with high politics and parties represented at the national level. The aim of the article is to answer the question of the role of the inhabitants of small towns in relation to the political representation of the municipality. The authors aim to point out the specifics of the municipal ...

The problem of ensuring effective state management in the context of an exceptionally complex and unstable socio-economic environment, formed by the network society and economic realities, remains invariably relevant in today's globalizing world. As a result, the concept of the Open Government was formed and the basic principles of the work of this system were worked out. Its main task is to transform the internal and external relationships of the traditional government through the use of communication networks to...

After the military defeat of Poland, the course of the border with Slovakia changed. Germany and Slovakia signed in autumn 1939 in Berlin the Treaty, on the basis of which Slovakia regained the Northern parts of SpiВљ, Orava and Kysuce region, which had been joined to Poland between 1920 and 1938. One of the most significant problems was the determination of the definitive course of the new border. The border was determined by negotiations between the Slovak and the German side until 1940. On each section of the S...

Intergenerational learning is based on the interaction between participants belonging to different generations and mutually beneficial learning while learning goals are stated for respective generations. Intergenerational learning in families living in socially and economically disadvantaged environments emerges as an opportunity for adult learning in a life-long learning prospect. The paper presents the results of a qualitative research exploring how intergenerational learning develops personal attributes in adul...

Following the evolution of the state of well-being, as part of social policy, especially in the last 60 years, one can conclude the notable trend of increasing the relevance, that is, the generosity of social policies, with one progressive movement of the welfare state from a state-watchman to a state protector, whose general task is to ensure equality of opportunities, ie chances. In literature, we encounter different definitions of the concept of "state protector" and "welfare state". The concept of "social prot...

Above all, this article analyses the distinction of the contemporary Russian political and legal transition from state-centered social structure to human-centered society. The former presupposes that sociopolitical relations are subject to the etatization of socium and individuals and laws substantially limit human freedoms. The latter is based on the priority of human rights and freedoms, which is fundamental for a social state of law. In the 1990s there were certain efforts to approach the second type of develop...

At different historical stages education played various roles in society. If initially it was understood as a way of transferring knowledge from one generation to another, then eventually its functions became more complicated. For a few centuries education was closely connected with economic factors, that is it was focused on economic needs of the states of Modern times. The 20th century with all evidence has shown a qualitatively new function of education – political. Certainly, the economic component continues...

Teachers as a massive professional social group providing services in the public interest are the subject of educational policies at both European and national levels. These educational policies show a high level of diversity and identify optimal systemic intervention tools to support the professional development of teachers. Educational policies in Slovakia show specific approaches toward teachers arising from school-historical, political and vocational origins. Analysis of these aspects and their impact on the c...

Public administration reforms in European countries have led to several policies of decentralization within which competencies of local state governments were transferred to regional and municipal self-governments with the aim to improve efficiency of public services delivery. In this paper we present empirical comparative analysis of efficiency of municipal offices providing services in the field of building order in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. The two countries provide the competence under two different pol...

The article is devoted to the topical problem of energy security in East Asia under the context of the unfolding struggle of the major powers in this region for priority access to energy sources from Russia, the Middle East and fields in the East China and South China seas. The problems of bilateral and multilateral energy cooperation, ways of its institutionalization in the context of the prospects of the formation of a common region-wide energy space are depicted in this article. The authors note that the territ...

This paper focuses its attention on how, in a Southern Italian region like Puglia, the environment has been affected by infrastructural policies about the use of the water resource. The management and administration of the water resource and the rules about the use of public water and the pattern of socio-economic development were linked to the limited availability of this essential natural resource. The paper seeks to suggest that the use of water is dependent on peculiarities of social and cultural developme nt ...

Rail transport and its reforms are matters of current discussions. Member States of European Union have started to consider importance of rail transport and the necessity to emphasize it, as this matter has been underestimated in the past. As consequence, rail transport has lost its competitiveness to road transport. Due to this fact, there have been several reforms of rail transport on level of the European Union, in order to increase performance and to strengthen position of rail transport to other types of tran...

In the contemporary society different scholars have emphasized the pluralization processes and variability in family forms (Giddens 1991; Beck, Beck-Gernsheim 2001; Baumann 2000). This trend is known as “individualization”, where individuals and self-realization become primary objective and the relationships are "instrumental" to personal happiness and gratification. In this context the value of family ties becomes considerably weakened: some sociologists wonder if the family is still a resource or rather an o...

The article is devoted to the issue of the change of China's foreign trade policy and its position in the world economy. The global economic crisis highlighted the new trends in the global economic development, bringing the economies of the newly industrialized countries to the leading positions and thus heralding changes in the international political arena. The United States, Western European countries and Japan, which after the end of the Cold War were the most economically advanced countries in the world, face...

Sociology as a scientific discipline includes the sociology of war. In recent years, wars have not become a thing of the past, but, on the contrary, military conflicts are taking place even more often, affecting the everyday life of modern society on the global and local levels. This article focuses on the issue of war as a social process by examining the works of Nikolai Golovin and Pitirim Sorokin and other scholars who have contributed to the development of the sociology of war. They set key trends in establish...

This paper aims to rebuild with an historical approach Italian management of migration flows during last Government Berlusconi (2008-2011). The research focuses specifically on political strategies carried out by Italian right-wing Government of that time, to highlight reasons and effects of their evolution in national and international framework. The starting hypothesis is that migration issue became the main resource to gain electoral consensus in political competition and, in the meantime, an instrument to unba...

The idea of implementation of Electronic Health Record systems on national scale “e-Health” has started in all three Baltic States at the same time, in 2003. But the progress of the system development is very different – Estonia had started mandatory use of e-Health in 2009, Latvia on 2018, but the Lithuania is still on its way. The research involved analyze of e-Health development and implementation process in Latvia and comparison with Estonia, with the aim to discover the differences and identify hinderin...

We observe the abandonment of the dynamics in the development of the administrative services, both in the central authorities of the executive power and in the bodies conducting the local self-government. It is noticeable that a small part of the central administration has made it possible for applications for the provided administrative services to be submitted via its territorial units and, moreover, no one administrative services to the central administrations can be declared through the municipal administratio...

This paper is a brief synopsis of a work regarding the security policy in Italy between 2008 and 2013. Trough the analysis of the main national press of different political orientation, the paper aims to investigate the shift in priority of Italian parties in front of new threats and the effects this shift had on Italian policy. With the results of 2008 election, right-wing People of Freedom (PdL) and left-wing Democratic party (PD) centered their agenda on physical security. The zero-tolerance policy of Berluscon...

The paper focuses upon an analysis and review of those phenomena, which were inevitable for democratisation processes of the Slovak part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and which helped to overcome Slovakia’s political, cultural, social and industrial backwardness up to that point when it got a potential to be transformed into an independent state and a sovereign political actor with its own political status, authenticity, cultural uniqueness, and pragmatism of relations with the Central European neighbours and ...

In the context of local self-government, the Europeanization process includes the "top-down" component (i.e. changes in policies, actions, preferences and participants in local governance resulting from the negotiation and implementation of EU programs and policies), "bottom-up" component (i.e. transfer of innovative urban practices to a supranational arena for the purpose of incorporating local initiatives in pan-European policies and programs) and the horizontal component. This paper focuses on the horizontal Eu...

The aim of this contribution is to analyze the state of implementation of EU structural funds, the amount of funds allocated and the number of successful projects for individual operational programs in the programming period 2007 - 2013 in the Slovak Republic. Structural policy and structural funds as a tool are by their very nature directly aimed at reducing disparities between regions and reducing the disadvantaged regions or regions of the Member States. Basics and fundamentals of regional policy and structural...

The new information technologies used in the contemporary conflicts and the overall availability of social nets generates number of usable information for their actors. This new information environment breeds the chance of conducting the sophisticated and targeted operation of disinformation and effective impact on the actors involved as well as regional or global ones. While the information and propaganda dimension is not a completely new phenomenon, technological development has greatly strengthened its importan...

Russia is a country with a high level of international migration. At the same time, the distribution of migrants is uneven; Perm Kray is one of the regions with relatively high level of migration. The population of this region is more than 2, 600 thousand people; Perm Kray is one of the most developed economic regions of Russia. The objectives of the study were to investigate the main problems faced by international migrants and the practice of working with migrants. The main research methods were the focus group ...

International educational mobility is considered as a type of international movement that occurred as a result of globalization processes. The numbers of young people crossing the national borders for higher education continue to increase. Recent years have witnessed change in those countries which have traditionally been the main senders of overseas students. South Korea as one of the main student senders from East Asia demonstrates a geographical shift of student mobility. The article covers the top-destination ...

Russia is a country with a high level of international migration. Due to the geographic location of the Far East, China and North Korea used to be the main donor countries for international migration, but in recent years, the international migration from CIS countries is developing. The present situation poses special challenges for the migration policy, including: the development of the labor market taking into account international migration, the reduction of social tension between the local population and inter...

When it comes to the political parties in the Republic of Macedonia, there is a general perception that they have a lacking of internal democracy. One might argue that too much authority is provided to the leader of the party as well as to the limited oligarchy of people surrounding him. Although in certain cases this perception is not in accordance with official party documents, the very fact that party leaderships rarely change in the Republic of Macedonia might be used as an additional argument by those who bel...

The most important instrument of global governance is social media technology. Women's magazines, as a tool of these technologies, especially in demand in the event of a long process of reformatting the mass consciousness. Young women in Russian society are the most socially active and educated part. Their values and social ideals define the paradigm of the future culture of the next generation in Russia. In this sense, young women are the target audience for the use of social technologies suggestion coordinated u...

The article describes the main results of interdisciplinary studies devoted to development of a methodological approach to typologization of urbanization processes for small and medium-sized cities in resource regions of Siberia, as well as to modeling the impact of key urbanization factors on the innovative technological, economic and socio-cultural development of the said regions. The reported study was funded by Russian Foundation for Basic Research, Government of Krasnoyarsk Krai, Krasnoyarsk Region Science an...

Money laundering is the operation by which considerable amounts of illegally achieved money, from different activities such as drug trafficking, drug smuggling, arms dealing, human trafficking, bribery, and corruption or other crimes, are transformed into legal funds earned from legitimate activities. The purpose of this paper is to present the primary forms of money laundering and different mechanisms they set in action and their effects. The methodology used for this paper is made of scholarly articles and artic...

This article deals with the topical issue of international environmental cooperation in the field of water resources protection in the Baltic region. As of the beginning of the XXI century it was possible to observe the negative trend that was developing in the waters of the Baltic Sea and posing a threat to the whole hydrosphere of the region. In the course of the study it was stressed that due to the border neighborhood and the unity of the adjacent water area, international cooperation for many years was built ...

The purpose of the research was to study interdisciplinary as a set of theoretical assumptions and strategies that aim at a holistic approach to all varieties of disciplinary knowledge; somehow, it was stressed in the paper, that holistic principles, more often than not, presuppose associating transdisciplinarity with a certain world-picture; accordingly, the purpose of the research can be characterized as a kind of meta-theoretical methodology of the kind which always was the prerogative of philosophy. Thus under...

Division of power as a base principle of construction of state power is a major precondition for establishment and construction of democratic and functional states in accordance with international acquitted standards and practices. Parliamentary control of the Government and the state administration bodies in front of Parliament is one of the characteristics of the parliamentary system. The Government of the Republic of Macedonia and its members for their work are responsible before the Parliament of the Republic ...

Research of corruption is mostly limited by legal perception of this phenomenon being exceptionally referred to as a consequence of criminal nature of actions practiced by the corruptionist. Meanwhile, the fact that corruption has not only social grounds but also social functions is often ignored. The author claims the approach which treats corrupt and its milder complementing informal practices as both products and mechanism of social order in some communities to be more productive. In 2016, a mass telephone surv...

Philanthropy is one of the fastest growing industries in the global economy. Philanthropic billionaires have unprecedented power in creating education policy, directing the development of global agriculture and dictating trends in global health policy. According to its critics, instead of an altruistic aid, philanthropic capitalism is, in essence, an ultimate way of gaining profit under the guise of humanity. Large charities replace state institutions as social service providers. Due to the size of donations, fina...

At the beginning of 1938 the Slovak-Polish relations were stabilised. Although Poland considered Czechoslovakia in the long term as an artificial state unit to be broken up over time, it sought to maintain relations with Slovak political representation. This attitude was supported by a fact that in the most powerful Slovak political party - Hlinka's Slovak People's Party operated strong Polonophil wing. This wing wished to establish good relations with Polish political representation. After Austria's anschluss, wi...

The Polish-Slovak relations were very complicated at the turn of the 1920s and 1930s. Both Slovakia and Poland formed part of Czechoslovakia and they represented the product of a new international political order that emerged after the First World War. However, these states had mutual unresolved problems and border disputes dated often back a long time. These issues also related to Slovakia. Since the late 19th century, the Region of Northern SpiВљ, Region of Orava and the areas around the Town of ?adca had repres...

Introduction. Legitimacy is a political and legal concept that means a positive attitude of the population to the existing institutions of state power. Society in the 21st century has become very multicultural, and in the context of the strongest economic globalization there is a clear division of people on racial, ethnic and gender grounds. It becomes more difficult to find a compromise among such a diversified society. In addition, globalization has led to closer international cooperation as the governments of s...

The aim of the research is detection the interaction structure between the main actors of urban conflicts in the major cities of modern Russia and impacting political and institutional factors on it. The analysis is based on the theory conflict theses, which linking the management of conflict processes with the need for their institutionalization, including political sphere. For obtaining empirical data, an expert survey was used, in which 36 experts from three regional centers of Russia were represented (Voronezh...

Ratification of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in 2012 in Russia and formation of a national strategy for social policy for persons with disabilities demanded the creation of a system for monitoring the implementation of its provisions and performance evaluation. The article discusses the formation of a system for monitoring the status of persons with disabilities in Russia and the issues related to observance of their rights, taking into account the international experience of conductin...

This article is intended to discuss the prospects and the ways of constructing a new model of global development in a situation of factual and theoretical uncertainty indicated in social and political science by the concept of post-globalization. It aims at analyzing the critical and theoretical potential of the concept of post-globalization for understanding the direction of shifting the paradigms of conceptualization of the future. This research is based on contextualization, theoretical analysis, and conceptual...