Rostov scientific school of political elitism in retrospect and perspective
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Ponedelkov A.V. Rostov scientific school of political elitism in retrospect and perspective. Humanities of the South of Russia. 2025. Vol. 14. No. 3. P. 227-240. DOI: https://doi.org/10.18522/2227-8656.2025.3.19 (in Russ.).
Abstract
Objective of the study is the analysis of the genesis of the scientific school of political elitism at South-Russian Institute of Management of Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (Rostov-on-Don).
The methodological basis of the study was the analysis of scientometric indicators of representatives of the scientific school of political elitism; quantitative data on the defense of candidate's and doctoral dissertations in the Dissertation Council for Political Sciences at the North Caucasus Academy of Public Administration (then the RANEPA Law School); research and publication activity of members of the scientific school of political elitism.
Results of the study. The main issues and approaches to its solution within the framework of this scientific school are presented, research and personnel achievements in the period 1995-2024 are shown. More than 30 Doctors and Candidates of Political Sciences have been trained here, specializing directly in the field of elitism. There are also more than 200 Candidates and Doctors of Political Sciences in other fields. The founders of the scientific school are Professors A. V. Ponedelkov and A. M. Starostin, as well as their partners – Professors S. I. Kuzina, S. A. Kislitsyn, A. K. Agaponov, established a notable scientific tradition in Russian Political Science, based on the advanced principle of elite determinism in Political Science.
Prospects of the study. This material will be useful for further study of the development of the scientific school of political elitism in the South of Russia.
Keywords:
scientific school, elite, political elite, elite determinism, the principle of civilizational identity of elites, elite recruiting, administrative and political elite, Russian elitism
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Plyays Ya. A. Political Science in the Context of the Transitional Era in Russia. Moskva: ROSSPEN = Moscow: ROSSPEN, 2009; 446 p. ISBN 978-5-8243-1093-1. (In Russ.)
Ponedelkov A. V., Starostin A. M. Introduction to Political Elitology. Special course. [Textbook for teachers of political science and sociology of universities, colleges, teachers of gymnasiums and lyceums, students of the humanities faculty]. North Caucasian Academy of Public Service, Institute of Advanced Training in Humanities and Social Sciences. sciences at RSU (IPPK at RSU). Rostov-na-Donu: Izd-vo SKAGS = Rostov-on-Don: Publishing house SKAGS, 1998; 121 p. ISBN 5-89546-009-7. (In Russ.)
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Russian elitology: innovative responses to the challenges of the modern world: Proceedings of the Third All-Russian elitology congress with international participation. Rostov-on-Don, February 15-16, 2019; Volume 2. Rostov-na-Donu: Yuzhno-Rossiyskiy institut upravleniya – filial federal'nogo gosudarstvennogo byudzhetnogo obrazovatel'nogo uchrezhdeniya vysshego professional'nogo obrazovaniya Rossiyskaya akademiya narodnogo khozyaystva i gosudarstvennoy sluzhby pri Prezidente Rossiyskoy Federatsii (YURIUF RANKhiGS) = Rostov-on-Don: South-Russian Institute of Management – branch of the federal state budgetary educational institution of higher professional education Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (SUPI RANEPA), 2019; 468 p. ISBN 978-5-89546-970-5. (In Russ.)
Ponedelkov A.V., Starostin A.M. Elite genesis and elite positioning in the context of the formation of new power orders. Essays on Political Elitology: a monograph. Rostov-na-Donu: Izd-vo YuRIU RANHiGS = Rostov-on-Don: Publishing House of the RANEPA, 2023; 208 p. ISBN 978-5-6047680-5-1. (In Russ.)
Smirnov I. I. Paths of history. Cryptanalytics of deep power. Institute of system-strategic analysis. Moskva: Tovarishchestvo nauch. izdaniy KMK = Mosсow: Partnership of scientific publications KMK, 2020; 473 p. ISBN 978-5-907213-75-3. (In Russ.)
Trends and problems of development of Russian political science in the global context: tradition, reception and innovation / S. G. Aivazova, V. L. Achkasov, D. M. Vorobyov et al. Moskva: Izdatel'stvo “Politicheskaya entsiklopediya” = Moscow: Political Encyclopedia Publishing House, 2017; 477 p. ISBN 978-5-8243-2145-6. (In Russ.)
Barsukova S. Yu. Structure and institutions of the informal economy. Sotsiologicheskiy zhurnal = Sociological journal. 2005; 3: 118-134. (In Russ.)
Beck U. Risk society. Towards another modernity. Translated from German by V. Sedelnik and N. Fedorova; Last. A. Filippov. Moskva: Progress-Traditsiya = Moscow: Progress-Tradition, 2000; 384 p. ISBN 5-7777-0304-6. (In Russ.)
Giddens E. The elusive world: how globalization is changing our lives. E. Giddens. Moskva: Ves' mir = Moscow: Whole world, 2004; 120 p. (In Russ.)
Zaslavskaya T. I. Modern Russian society: social mechanism of transformation. Textbook. [manual]. Moskovskaya vysshaya shkola sotsial'nykh i ekonomicheskikh nauk, Intertsentr. Moskva: Delo = Moscow Higher School of Social and Economic Sciences, Intercenter. Moscow: Case, 2004; 400 p. ISBN 5-7749-0366-4. (In Russ.)
Igoshin I. N. Institutional Distortions in Russian Society. Moscow, 2003; 152 p. ISBN 5-94865-030-8 (In Russ.)
North D. K. Institutions, Institutional Changes and the Functioning of the Economy. Moskva: Fond ekonomicheskoy knigi “Nachala” = Moscow: Fund of Economic Books “Beginnings”, 1997; 180 p. Modern Institutional-Evolutionary Theory. ISBN 5-88581-006-0. (In Russ.)
Petrosyan D. S. Institutional pathologies of the national economy. Audit i finansovyy analiz = Audit and financial analysis, 2007; 2: 372-391. (In Russ.)
Yanitsky O. N. Sociology of risk: key ideas. Mir Rossii. Sotsiologiya. Etnologiya = The world of Russia. Sociology. Ethnology. 2003; 12(1): 3-35. (In Russ.)
Garfinkel H. The Origins of the Term “Ethnomethodology”. Ed. by R. Turner. Baltimore: Penguin. 1974.
Schlic M. Positivismus und Realismus. Erkenntnis. 1932; 3: 1-31.
Schutz A. Phaenomenologica. Collected papers. 1: The problem of social reality / Ed. and introd. by Maurice Natanson; With a pref. by H. L. van Breda. Hague:
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Received: 23.04.2025
Accepted: 19.06.2025
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Ponedelkov, A. V. (2025). Rostov scientific school of political elitism in retrospect and perspective. Humanities of the South of Russia, 14(3), 227-240. https://doi.org/10.18522/2227-8656.2025.3.19
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