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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...

Latvia re-established its independence in 1990. National policy-makers imposed serious responsibility when making decisions as they were affecting the LatviaВ’s people's well-being and development. This study analyzes the interaction of two State Presidents of Latvia after regaining of independence in 1991: Guntis Ulmanis, the first State president (1993-1999) and Dr. Vaira Vike-Freiberga (1999-2007), with the Parrliament of Latvia within decision-making process, using suspended veto. State President is a formal l...

Evaluating the organizational climate and culture implies the use of different methods by public sector organizations' managers and / or human resource management units. Through the application of different methods, it is possible to collect, summarize and analyze information related to employee motivation and engagement, leadership, internal communication, attitudes towards change as well as other issues relevant to the achievement of the strategic and operational objectives of the administrations in the public s...

Background. The political space is permeated with diverse types and kinds of discourses, which operate simultaneously and which concurrently function as autonomous, heterogeneous and continuous information flows. By applying language filters, geo-positioning data, markers of discursive practices to the online space, it is possible to identify the areas that are characteristic of a country, a city, a certain group of people, a political partyВ’s electorate, etc. The communication and the formation of social practic...

The main purpose of this article is to actualize study of the features of regional political leadership positioning from the point of view of the possibilities of its transformation in the modern information society of Russia. It is suggested that the role of public expertise is growing in modern Russia, and, moreover, becomes an operative institution for the co-governance of social and political processes in the regions of the Russian Federation. The authors of the article consider aspects of regional political l...

The article analyzes the process of forming a dialogue between Russian civil society and the authorities with a view to solving environmental problems more effectively. One of the reasons that hinders the existence of system communication is that the authorities sacrifice ecology for the sake of developing the region's economy and yield to pressure from business, in the structure of whose interests the task of preserving a favorable natural environment for people's lives is peripheral. At the same time, the presen...

In contemporary society, issues of social justice are considered more broadly, in an existential sense, at both the level of local communities and at a global level of world politics and have become a subject of intense debate and controversy. The leaders of radical social and religious movements are calling upon their supporters to employ terrorist tactics in the name of achieving “justice.” Reform and revolution are the main instruments used to pursuit social justice. However, is reform or revolution really ...

The concept of political extremism is used by lay and expert public in various contexts. Because of a diversity of its perception in political, societal, journalist, official, criminal, scientific, or lay context, it is extraordinary vague concept, which belongs among the most amorphous concepts in the social sciences. The issue of the extremism has attracted, during the last 30 years, attention of the major part particularly the European political science community. Development and research of this phenomenon is ...

Prospects for the development of social education in Russia are considered. Factors are formed under the influence of the development of Western experience and trends; specificity of domestic practice of social institutions. Education as a social institution has a social leading character. We need to use new approaches, innovations in social problems solving. The aim of the study is to determine the prospects for the development of education in the sphere of social work. In the research, based on questionnaires an...

As part of the history of international relations, bilateral relations between Italy and Russia are of particular interest. Numerous studies in this field suggest certain interdependence between Russian and Italian policies over centuries. The initial part of the article is concerned with the less known historical vicissitudes of the relations. Major attention is paid to the Cold War period when the Italian Christian democrats managed, despite block policy impediments, to establish good working relations with the ...

Topicality. Russia was always one of the main subjects of political thought as one of influential factor in world policy. The report is focused on the history of American political thought that remains still unknown in this aspect. And attempts to better understanding of the roots of actual negative connotation of Russia and Russians in USA. Aim: to reconstruct the logic and basic political arguments of the negative image of Russia in America. Hypothesis: the negative discursive American practice about Russia is d...

In 2016, more than 16.3 million migrants were recorded, while there is illegal migration in Russia, which generates serious social, economic, and political problems. The attitude of the population towards migration policy in Russia is ambiguous, and it is reflected in social networks. Social networks and blogosphere contain data to study the effectiveness of migration policy by social science. The paper deals with reflection of the international migration and migration policy in social network. The analysis of the...

The article highlights the issues of international student mobility and the process of choosing the country to go to study abroad. South Korea is on the third place in the list of top East Asian countries hosting international students from all over the world. The article presents the results of the research on Russian students graduated from the universities in South Korea and its motivation to study abroad. Data collection from the semi-structured interviews revised the perception of educational system of Korean...

Social policy is an inherent part of the system of each developed country. It regulates and manages the different social elements in society, determines the size and scope of social protection, forms future goals and aims, acts against disintegration processes, creates favorable living conditions, shapes the social, health, educational, working and protective environment for all citizens. The social policy is directly linked to the economic capabilities of a country, taking into account moral principles, culture, ...

While Western European societies are undergoing the process of secularization, post-Soviet Russia is demonstrating religious revival. The Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) alternatively known as the Moscow Patriarchate is the largest and most influential religious organization in Russia and the largest of the Orthodox churches in the world. According to various polls, approximately three-quarters of Russians identify themselves as Orthodox and ROC consistently occupies the top position in the rankings of trust among s...

The status of the Roma population in Slovakia remained very difficult in the 2nd half of the 20th century. They lacked job opportunities and high proportion of the Roma was still living in very poor conditions in shacks in the Roma settlements. They lived without basic hygienic conditions and without access to education, often illiterate. For this reason, in the 1950s, the social integration of the Roma population and raising their cultural level became the most important tasks. It had to be decided whether the Ro...

The progressive process of erosion of the European institutional structure, which took place starting from the economic crisis up to the crisis resulting from Brexit, requires careful reflection on the process of European integration, in its historical, political and social conditions. The research work conducted by the jurist Joseph Weiler, allows to draw a clear appearance of constitutive aspects of the European Community. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, which includes law, economic, political, social an...

The research study offers an analysis of the public opinion of citizens of the Slovak Republic focused on the results of the referendum vote in the United Kingdom in 2016, in which the British voters decided to leave their country of the European Union. The study also presents prevailing opinions, attitudes, preferences and values of the Slovak people on the possible impacts of Brexitis in Great Britain on Slovaks or on the future of the European Union. We used the questionnaire method in the research. The survey ...

The aim of the submitted contribution is to propose for the staff of the EU Structural Funds Sections of the Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sports of the Slovak Republic an effective evaluation system based in particular on the motivation of employees to perform higher and better performances. The State Service Act in the Slovak Republic does not impose an obligation to perform a civil service assessment of civil servants but provides for the authorization of civil servants to evaluate subordinate ci...

Based on current security risks developed countries of the world have defined critical infrastructure as an asset or system whose disruption or destruction should have adverse effect on the performance of economic and social functions of the state, and thus on the quality of life of residents in terms of the protection of their life, health, security, property, as well as the environment. The objective need to ensure protection and defence of important national infrastructure assets against traditional threats suc...

Topicality. Russia was always one of the main subjects of political thought as one of influential factor in world policy. The report is focused on the history of American political thought that remains still unknown in this aspect. And attempts to better understanding of the roots of actual negative connotation of Russia and Russians in USA. Aim: to reconstruct the logic of one of political argument of the negative image of Russia in America. Hypothesis: The USA authorities did not want to put up with the fact tha...

Topicality. Russia was always one of the main subjects of political thought as one of influential factor in world policy. However, despite the efforts of populists, Russian nihilism and revolutionary movement with its terrorist elements was totally alien and not understandable for the American political thought. And the emergence in Russia of an army of nihilists, destroyers of the foundations of society was explained by the lack of civility. And till now days the political education is understood in USA from this...

Image making of politicians is nowadays a pre-set, specially managed and construed process aimed at the key objective of drawing attention to specific individual, party or political process. Quite often such images do not match the real personalities and their features, they only exist on the cognition of political supporters as reflection of the developed image. The images, however, serve as the key tools that provide support, attract attention and votes by electorates, raise to trust, expectations, etc. The aim ...

The content of the paper is aimed at analysing the contribution of the Slovak National Council in the Slovak history, which has often been questionable. In order to evaluate objectively its activities and merits, respective periods of the Slovak history have to be taken into account, as they witnessed significant political processes and events from the beginning of the 90s of the past century to these days. The Slovak National Council has always represented the culmination of political efforts hard to be fulfilled...

In the last couple of years Russia has established for itself a reputation of a partner, whose national and power ambitions, do not know the bounds of international norms, laws, partnerships or governance. However, Russia and its need to build a strong image and curb a superpower place for itself in the international system, has been under way well before the crises in Ukraine, Syria or even Georgia. Actually, the first signs of a stable dominant national and foreign identity, independent and opposing the Western ...