FORMATION OF REGIONAL POLITICAL ELITES IN PRESENT-DAY RUSSIA: THEORETICAL ASPECTS OF RESEARCH

Gritsenko Nikolay Pavlovich, Candidate of historical sciences, editor-in-chief, editing office of the social and political newspaper “Единая Россия на Кубани” , GritsenkoNP@mail.ru

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The formation of regional political elite of modern Russia through a prism guild`s and entrepreneurial research approaches is analyzed in the article. Thus the formation of political elite is meant as processes of its recruiting, intraelite consolidation and social mobility.

political elite, regional political process, recruiting, hierarchy, intraelite consolidation, social mobility, principles of selection of elite.