scholarly journals The significance of the Bundestag elections for internal and external political processes in FRG and Russian-German relations

2021 ◽  
pp. 57-63
Author(s):  
Vladislav Belov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Political Development ◽  
Political Leaders ◽  
Bundestag Elections ◽  
Political Processes ◽  
Election Results ◽  
German Bundestag ◽  
Government Coalition

The article analyzes the results of elections to the German Bundestag, held on September 26, 2021. They are viewed as “epoch-making” due to A. Merkel’s leaving the politics, electing a new chancellor, forming a new government coalition by three parties, determining the fate of popular and small party formations and their political leaders. The author assesses the election results from the viewpoint of prospects for domestic and foreign political development of Germany and future of Russian-German relations.

scholarly journals TRADITIONAL VALUES AND WESTERN INFLUENCE: CONTRADICTIONS IN THE ROMANIAN AND POLISH MODERN POLITICAL AGENDA

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 459-467
Author(s):  
O.V. Timofeeva
Keyword(s):  
Political Development ◽  
Political Agenda ◽  
The Political ◽  
Traditional Values ◽  
Political Leaders ◽  
Value System ◽  
Political Processes ◽  
Western Influence ◽  
Political Forces ◽  
Western Values

The article attempts to analyze the political agenda of modern Poland and Romania on issues related to the choice of a traditional or Western value system. Attention is paid to the main aspects and sides of the discussion about the values in the studied states. The political agenda is analyzed in the article on the example of legislation adopted under the influence of various political forces in the regions, media materials, discussions of political leaders, analytical materials. Factors are identified that determine the similarity of political processes in these countries, as well as circumstances that contribute to radical differences in individual areas of political development. The author concludes that the vectors of political development of the countries selected for analysis are similar, the general commitment of society is more traditional than Western values, however, she notes that over the past three decades the significance of Western ideals has increased markedly. She also points to the differences, some of which are associated with historical differences and the resulting chronological mismatch.

scholarly journals SOUTH KOREAN LEADERS IN THE POLITICS OF DEMOCRATIZATION

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 147-168
Author(s):  
Grażyna STRNAD
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
South Korea ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Political Development ◽  
Political System ◽  
Political Leadership ◽  
Authoritarian Regimes ◽  
Political Leaders ◽  
South Korean ◽  
Late Twentieth

This article aims to show the process of formation and operation (functioning) of the changing political system of South Korea. It is undertaken for the analysis of the process of the collapse of the former authoritarian political system and formation of South Korean democracy. Indicated in this article are the roles and participation of political leaders (Chun Doo Hwan, Roh Tae Woo, Kim Young Sam, and Kim Dae Jung) in the process of intense political change that took place in South Korea from the 1980s to the late twentieth century.During the authoritarian regimes of South Korea, the nation recorded spectacular economic development, but without political development. Political leadership in the democratization of the country was still authoritarian. Core values and attitudes of politicians pointed to the presence of the cultural heritage of Confucianism in politics.

Essays on the Political history of the Countries of Central and south-Eastern Europe. From the Late Twentieth to the Early Twenty-First Centuries

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Political Development ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Balkans ◽  
Political Processes ◽  
South Eastern ◽  
Early Twenty ◽  
History Of ◽  
South Eastern Europe ◽  
Late Twentieth

This collective monograph is a comprehensive study of the causes, evolution and outcomes of complex processes in the contemporary history of the countries of Central and South-Eastern Europe, and aims in particular to identify common and special characteristics in their socio-economic and political development. The authors base their work on documentary evidence; both published and unpublished archival materials reveal the specifics of the development of the political landscapes in these countries. They highlight models combining both European and nationally oriented (and even nationalist) components of the political spheres of particular countries; identify markers which allow the stage of completion (or incompletion) of the establishment of a new political system to be estimated; and present analyses of the processes of internal political struggle, which has often taken on ruthless forms. The analysis of regional and country-specific documentary materials illustrates that the gap in the development of the region with “old Europe” in general has not yet been overcome: in the post-Socialist period, the situation of the region being “ownerless” and “abandoned”, characteristic of the period between the two world wars, is reoccurring. The authors conclude that during the period from the late twentieth to the early twenty-first centuries, the region was quite clearly divided into two parts: Central (the Visegrad Four) and South-Eastern (the Balkans) Europe. The authors explore the prevailing trends in the political development of Hungary and Poland related to the leadership of nationally and religiously oriented parties; in the Czech Republic and Slovakia the pendulum-like change in power of the left and right-wing parties; and in Bulgaria and Romania the domestic political processes permanently in crisis. The authors pay special attention to the contradictory nature of the political evolution of the states that emerged in the space of the former Yugoslavia. For the first time, Greece and Turkey are included in the context of a regional-wide study. The contributors present optimal or resembling transformational models, which can serve as a prototype for shaping the political landscape of other countries in the world. The monograph substantiates the urgency of the new approach needed to study the history and current state of the region and its countries, taking into account the challenges of the time, which require strengthening national and state identity. The research also offered prognostic characteristics of transformational changes in the region, the Visegrad Four, and the Balkans.

From Custom to Right: The Politicization of the Village in Early Meiji Japan

1989 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 729-748 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. William Steele
Keyword(s):  
Political Development ◽  
Local Politics ◽  
Local Autonomy ◽  
Political Leaders ◽  
Meiji Japan ◽  
National Assembly ◽  
Meiji Period ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Village

In 1874 Itagaki Taisuke and other critics of the newly established Meiji government submitted a petition demanding a popularly elected national assembly. This is said to be the origin of the Liberty and People's Rights Movement (jiyū minken undō). Around the same time a number of local political leaders intensified their campaign for the creation of village assemblies. Although the demand for local autonomy in the early Meiji period was both deep-felt and widespread, only a few scholars, notably Neil Waters, have diverted their attention from Itagaki and other political activists and thinkers at the center. An examination of Meiji local politics is nonetheless essential to understand Japan's modern political development.

Introduction: state structures, political processes, and collective choice in CMEA states

1986 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 195-238 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ellen Comisso
Keyword(s):  
International Economic ◽  
Economic Assistance ◽  
Political Leaders ◽  
East European ◽  
Political Processes ◽  
The Past ◽  
Political Resources ◽  
Mutual Economic Assistance ◽  
Economic Strategies

The similarity of state structures throughout Eastern Europe helps to explain why the reactions of states in that area to the international economic disturbances of the past decade resemble each other and why they differ from those of states outside the socialist bloc. Similar state structures, however, do not explain why the economic strategies of the East European states themselves in response to international economic shocks in the 1970s and 1980s diverged so noticeably. The role of state structure is to define “kto/kovo” (who can do what to whom) relationships in the state and economy. In this way state structures define problems that political leaders must solve, possibilities among which they may choose, and political resources and allies upon which they may draw in the course of their decision making. In contrast, strategy choices–“what is to be done”–are the outcomes of political processes in which leaders mobilize resources and allies to capture positions of power from which they can pursue the purposes they advocate. Thus differences in foreign economic strategies among member states in the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance reflected differences in the dynamic interaction of the form and content of political processes that occurred within common state structures.

Zwischen Polarisierung und Beharrung: Die Bundestagswahl 2017

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Right Wing ◽  
Election Campaigns ◽  
Federal Republic Of Germany ◽  
Election Study ◽  
Bundestag Elections ◽  
Angela Merkel ◽  
History Of ◽  
Bundestagswahl 2017 ◽  
Election Results ◽  
The Government

The Bundestag election was a choice between polarisation and insistence. The parties in the grand coalition had to accept massive losses of votes. Nevertheless, the black-red government under Angela Merkel remained in power. The AfD was the first right-wing populist party to enter the Bundestag. Based on data collected within the framework of the German Longitudinal Election Study (GLES), the most comprehensive research project to date on German elections, this volume offers a comprehensive analysis of the Bundestag elections. It follows on from the two studies on the 2009 and 2013 Bundestag elections and updates the longstanding electoral history of the Federal Republic of Germany from the perspective of empirical electoral research. Written in a scientifically based and understandable manner, the volume analyses the development of politics and public opinion since the Bundestag elections in 2013. It discusses election campaigns, election results and voter behaviour in detail as well as the formation of the government in 2017, which, at that time, had lasted longer than ever before.

Determinacy-Choice, Stability-Change: Some Thoughts on a Contemporary Polemic in Political Theory

1970 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabriel A. Almond
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Comparative Politics ◽  
Political Development ◽  
Middle Eastern ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Rapid Improvement ◽  
Potential Productivity ◽  
Political Processes ◽  
Stability Change ◽  
Second World

A MOOD OF DISILLUSIONMENT APPEARS TO BE SWEEPING THE FIELD of comparative politics and political development. This comes after almost two decades of rather impressive accomplishment, both from a qualitative and quantitative point of view. From small beginnings in the first years after the second world war, there is now a quite impressive literature in this field. Each area of the world has something like a ‘five-foot shelf’ of monographic studies of political processes, patterns and developmental tendencies. Some of these shelves are smaller than others. The Latin American shelf, for example, has lagged in growth but is in process of rapid improvement. The Middle Eastern shelf leaves much to be desired, but even here there are signs of stirring and of potential productivity. In addition to these ‘area shelves’ which show increasing signs of cumulativeness, of drawing on each other for perspective and for hypotheses, there is a ‘super shelf’ of comparative and theoretical studies which draws upon the area shelves and which contributes frameworks, approaches and hypotheses for monographic studies.

scholarly journals METHODOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF THE STUDY OF POLITICAL PROCESSES IN THE COUNTRIES OF CENTRAL ASIA

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 373-380
Author(s):  
Irlan Zh Iskakov
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
Political Development ◽  
Science Studies ◽  
The Political ◽  
Interstate Cooperation ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Political Processes ◽  
Political Reality ◽  
Central Asian ◽  
Legislative Framework

Studies of political systems and political processes in the post-Soviet states of the Central Asian region are based, as a rule, on institutional and neo-institutional concepts. Attempts to mechanically apply certain ready-made western description schemes and even the corresponding conceptual apparatus to the Central Asian material rarely lead to convincing results. Many important factors affecting the political development of the region remain beyond research. By the beginning of the 2010s institutionalization and pluralization of the political space outside state control also included the development of the necessary legislative framework. Such a framework implies the consolidation of the legal basis for the creation and effective functioning of public associations and organizations, and the formation of legitimate and viable representation institutions. Russian authors are much more familiar with the material of the political reality of the CAR, therefore they give more balanced and accurate assessments. The disadvantage of Russian studies is the fact that, methodologically, they follow the approaches developed by Western political science. This encourages one to concentrate on some aspects of the political development of the Central Asian states and to underestimate or even completely ignore other, no less, and sometimes much more significant ones. In recent years, this deficiency is gradually being replenished. The findings of the researchers are becoming more objective, which helps to overcome erroneous political decisions and strengthen interstate cooperation. Over time, such studies will have the results of the development of new systematic and well-reflected approaches, adequate to the subject of political science studies.

scholarly journals DAGESTAN DURING THE GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR (1941 – 1945)

2016 ◽  
pp. 74-87
Author(s):  
M. Ya. Mirzabeckov
Keyword(s):  
Political Development ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Public Authorities ◽  
Historical Experience ◽  
Political Processes ◽  
Material Resources ◽  
Political Work ◽  
Russian State ◽  
Great Patriotic War ◽  
The Republic

A comprehensive objective scientific understanding of political processes and changes in the multinational Russian state at the present stage is impossible without reference to the historical experience and the analysis of its national and regional components. In this context, the economic, social, cultural and political development of Dagestan in the years of the Great Patriotic War (1941 – 1945) deserves special attention of social scientists. The article traced the adjustments to the design and organization of the work of public authorities and management in Dagestan that started at the beginning of the Great Patriotic War. The article features Dagestani mobilization of military age people, the main directions of the political work among the population of the republic in the new extreme conditions aimed at the mobilization of material resources, spiritual and moral potential of the peoples of the region in order to achieve a speedy defeat of the enemy. The author comes to the reasonable conclusion that the efforts of the authorities, the selfless labor of workers in towns and villages, purposeful political work in a multinational region in time of war, as well as all over the country, helped repel the aggression and achieve victory over Nazi Germany.

scholarly journals Inter-Orthodox conflict as a destabilizing factor in the socio-political development of Ukraine

1999 ◽  
pp. 100-105
Author(s):  
S. Tkach
Keyword(s):  
State Government ◽  
Political Development ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Religious Organizations ◽  
The Political ◽  
Aggregated Data ◽  
Political Processes ◽  
Religious Factor ◽  
The Church

Recently, the religious factor in a number of circumstances (historical, economic, ideological) plays an increasingly important role in the socio-political life of our state. Religious organizations have become an integral part of the political and cultural spheres of life and greatly influence the socio-political processes in the Ukrainian state. This is evidenced, in particular, by the aggregated data of sociological surveys conducted by various centers and institutions, according to which the church community is most trusted by the population of our country (about 27.6%) (for comparison: the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine - 3.1%, state government-3%, judicial bodies-4%). Therefore, the analysis of social processes in the context of confessional measurement is now of particular importance

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