CHANGING OF POLITICAL ELITE AS A NECESSARY FACTOR OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF THE COUNTRY

Author: TIMOFEEV A.A.

Communicology. 2016. v.4, n.6
TIMOFEEV Aleksandr Aleksandrovich, the competitor for a scientific degree of
candidate of political Sciences, the Institute of Socio-Political Research of the
Russian Academy of Sciences.

Abstract: The article explores the status of modern Russian political elite. It presents the characteristics and peculiarities of the formation of the modern Russian political elite. For Russia characterized by the growing role of the elite in the political system, the main attention is focused on the most important existing problems – closeness and preservation of the political elite. The author draws an important parallel of dependence of the economy from politics and makes a conclusion –
lack of rotation of the political elite poses a threat of stagnation to the economy. Examines the necessity of renewing the political elite with a new generation of politicians, using the mechanism of free elections.

Key words: the political elite, the characteristics of the political elite, the mechanism of formation of the political elite, democracy, the closeness of the political elite, free elections, the economy

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