POLITICAL COMPETITION TRENDS IN MODERN RUSSIA

• Main Authors: Черкасова Татьяна Павловна, Шутов Михаил Васильевич
• Format: Article
• Language: Russian
• Published: Южно-Российский институт управления - филиал РАНХиГС 2021-03-01
• Series: Государственное и муниципальное управление
• Online Access: http://upravlenie.uriu.ranepa.ru/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/224-228-1.pdf

This article describes the trends of political competition within the party system of the Russian Federation. The authors identify two trends of political competition in Russia of the post-Soviet period and give them a scientific definition. Ones is a fundamentally new approach to the study of the competitive environment in politics. The scientific work derives the following formula: the change in the vector of development of political competition occurs when the type of party system changes. To prove this thesis, the theory of social divisions proposed by Lipset and Rokkan, as well as the Russian researcher Yu.G. Korgunyuk, is taken as a basis. The empirical part of the study is based on the financial indicators of the party as the main factors that form the type of party system. Based on statistical data we shall try to predict the nature of the functioning of the party system, including political competition, for the next election cycle.