The paper is devoted to presentation of the one aspect of the research project dedicated to study of political administrative elite in contemporary Russia. It is based on the network analysis methodology that is not widely used by Russian scholars of elites. The authors establish their approach on the mapping of the social networks within elite groups. Although the explanatory power of the network approach is still comparatively weak it is applied as exploratory method for structuring of empirical data, find the trends and set the research questions and hypotheses. The study of networks based on the birthplace is presented in the paper. The key research question is the following: are there cohesive subgroups based on birthplace compatriotship in federal executive branch of power? Federal ministers, deputy ministers and heads of departments are included into sample. The authors find that regional compatriotship is not the important factor of the recruitment of the federal political administrative elite. Howeve
Original languageRussian
Pages (from-to)99-108
JournalВестник Российского университета дружбы народов. Серия: Государственное и муниципальное управление
Volume7
Issue number2
StatePublished - 2020

    Research areas

  • career trajectories, elites recruitment, network analysis, political administrative elite, political networks, regional compatriotship, землячество, карьерные траектории, политико-административная элита, политические сети, рекрутирование элит, сетевой анализ

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