Particularities of modern ochlocracy
Toshchenko Zh.T.,
Corresponding Member of RAS, Scientific Director of the Sociological faculty of Russian State University for the Humanities, Editor-in-chief, journal “Sociological Studies”, Principal Researcher, Institute of Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, zhantosch@mail.ru
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Toshchenko Zh.T. Particularities of modern ochlocracy. – Polis. Political Studies. 2010. No. 2
The author investigates the phenomenon of ochlocracy, scarcely explored in contemporary academic literature. Anyway, its instances have not infrequently been observable in epochs of cardinal socio-economic and socio-political changes. Ochlocratical models and practices, in the author’s opinion, are characteristic also of contemporary political processes, especially of “post-Communist” states.