No 4 (2013)

Informational space is one of the main supportive constructions of the modern state. The process of development of infocommunicational infrastructure of Russia that constitutes the framework of its informational space goes in concordance with global trends though with some lag. In the sphere of interaction of the society and public authority in Russia take place content and infocommunicational breaches conditioned by translucency and communicational closeness of Russian authorities. Also there is breakup of the content of mass informing conditioned by breakup between the content about the state of affairs in the country which is being formed by the television and by the Internet with the participation of the users.

The modern Russian political movements are the first cells of the emerging civil society. Today, these movements were those social actors who seek to participate in decision making and implementation of public decision making, contributing to this development of public policy in our country. They were the first to make active use of electronic social networking and web 2.0 tools to achieve their goals. In the last year government agencies too paid of close attention to the development of social networks. It creates the conditions under which the use of new Internet technologies in the near future will enable all participants in the political process to achieve their goals.

The “Northern Dimension” is the conception of cooperation between Russia, EU, Norway and Iceland, which not only allows the Northwestern Federal District of Russia to overpass economic and social difficulties but also creates conditions for dynamic development of international cooperation and profound integration for all of the partners. The “Northern Dimension” is an example of good-neighborly relations.

The article analyzes the formation of civil governance, social economic reform and the transition to democracy in the Republic of Ghana.

The concept of social capital has been developed in the last quarter of the XX century, at the intersection of sociology and economics. Today remain relevant questions of creation and accumulation of social capital in social groups and society as a whole. However, the concept does not have a single, unified definition. An attempt to identify the key characteristics of the concept of social capital is presented in this paper.

The article is dedicated to the search of methods of agreement two paradigms: new institutionalism and the theory of elites. These paradigms determine the studies how political elite influences on the institutional transformation process. Informal model in the form of researching algorithm is proposed in the article. This algorithm defines several factors of the model such as mismatching of formal institutions and informal practices, possession of resources and political elite features.

This article considers the problem of a biased attitude of pro-Israel communities to human disasters, depending on the nation of people whom the disaster has occurred with, as well as the attitude towards their own catastrophe — the Holocaust as having no historical counterparts. Such position of Israeli and pro-Israel authors causes inhumane attitude towards other human tragedies, especially if they relate to the party who has become hostile to Israel by force of circumstances.

In the article the author touches upon the features of functioning of mass media in Japan. The author provides analysis of the phenomenon of keiretets and kartelization problems in the system of mass media of Japan. The tendencies of development of Japanese journalism in the context of institutionalization of management processes of mass media are being studied.