Shifts in the public life and the problem of democracy support in Russia

Kozyreva P.M.,

Dr. Sci. (Soc.), First Deputy Director of the Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Head of the Center for Longitudinal Studies at the Institute for Social Policy of the National Research University Higher School of Economics, pkozyreva@isras.ru

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Smirnov A.I.,

Doctor of Sociology, Senior researcher, Institute of Sociology of the Federal Center of Theoretical and Applied Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, smir_al@bk.ru

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Rubric: Theme of the issue: Russia in the mirror of sociological investigations of the Institute of Sociology, RAS

For citation:

Kozyreva P.M., Smirnov A.I. Shifts in the public life and the problem of democracy support in Russia . – Polis. Political Studies. 2013. No. 5

Abstract

Analyzed in the article, on the basis of sociological data, are the tendencies characterizing the change of the level of support of democratic ideas, values and procedures in modern Russian society (2000-2012). Presented are the dynamics of the political preferences shown by the citizens in connection with the specificity of the political system’s modernization; factors of democratization are investigated.

Keywords

mass consciousness; political processes; political system; democratization; state power; political views.