Trajectories of regime transformations and types of state consistency

A.Yu. Melville; D.K. Stukal; M.G. Mironyuk

Trajectories of regime transformations and types of state consistency

Melville A.Yu.,

Dr. Sci. (Philos.), Professor, Distinguished Scholar of Russia, Distinguished Professor, Academic Supervisor of the Faculty of Social Science, HSE University, Moscow, Russia, amelville@hse.ru

elibrary_id: 251142 | ORCID: 0000-0002-1414-5783 | RESEARCHER_ID: B-1152-2014

Stukal D.K.,

PhD, Cand. Sci. (Polit. Sci.), Assistant Professor, Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences, HSE University, Moscow, Russia, dstukal@hse.ru

elibrary_id: 1096522 | ORCID: 0000-0001-6240-5714 | RESEARCHER_ID: ABA-3314-2020

Cand. Sci. (Polit. Sci.), Associate Professor of the Faculty of Social Sciences, Leading Research Fellow of the Centre for Stability and Risk Analysis, HSE University, Moscow, Russia, mmironyuk@hse.ru

elibrary_id: 251177 | ORCID: 0000-0002-8183-3084 | RESEARCHER_ID: K-9102-2015

Rubric: Theme of the issue: World politics in the epoch of changes. Problems and contradictions

For citation:

Melville A.Yu., Stukal D.K., Mironyuk M.G. Trajectories of regime transformations and types of state consistency . – Polis. Political Studies. 2012. No. 2

Abstract

The article highlights six typologically different trajectories of regime transformation, three types of state consistency and five types of its dynamics on the post-Soviet space which have been worked out with the use of statistic and qualitative comparative methods. As a result of analysis conclusions are drawn regarding specificity of regime transformations in post-Soviet countries.

Keywords

democracy; democratization; regime transformations; state solvency; integral index of democracy; cluster analysis; method of principal components.