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В статье рассматривается и анализируется конкретные меры по поддержанию науки, купечества и предпринимательства дореволюционной России со стороны государственной власти. Такими представителями власти того времени выступали, в частности, лица императорской фамилии. Автор, создавший статью на основе архивных материалов, показывает, что усилия государства в данной области были не всегда оправданными и сбалансированными. ; The author discusses and analyzes the specific measures to support science, merchants and businesses from the side of the pre-revolutionary Russian government. These representatives of the authorities of the time were, in particular, those of the imperial family. The author who has comprised the article based on archival material shows that the states efforts in this area were not always justified and balanced.

"In this paper the author reviews three key technology-related trends: 1) big data, 2) non-probability samples, and 3) mobile data collection. He focusses on the implications of these trends for survey research and the research profession. With regard to big data, he reviews a number of concerns that need to be addressed, and argue for a balanced and careful evaluation of the role that big data can play in the future. The author argues that these developments are unlikely to replace transitional survey data collection, but will supplement surveys and expand the range of research methods. He also argues for the need for the survey research profession to adapt to changing circumstances." (author's abstract)

In his article, the author asks how legitimacy of law and the concept of rules of law can be described taking into account the interaction between aspects of philosophy and sociology as well as the will of the state in states' constitutions. As the rule of law, versus other kinds of rules in our society, should be regarded as a rule of "three-dimensionality" - an interaction between the will of the state, the social, historical, and economic factors, and the idea or concept of justice -, the author focuses his interest on the examination of these three factors always taking into account that law is the will of the state, but that not every decision of the state can be considered as law.

Some of our oldest and most powerful myths focus on sacrifice as a means of gaining power, strengthening relationships, and binding a community together. The oldest of these myths emphasizes blood sacrifices as the most powerful for this purpose. Our current American myths emphasize nearly the opposite: that success can be obtained without sacrifice. This article examines the implications of this fundamental shift on civil society. The author takes the Akedah—the Old Testament story of the binding of Isaac—as a central point in the evolution of the sacrifice myth. In particular, the author explores the evolution of "sacrifice" from ritual blood offering in a religious context to that of labor undertaken in a social context.

This article discusses the evaluation practice of a women's health advocate who learnt lessons about evaluation of health programmes from the experience of being evaluated. In turn, the author lays out the principles that she tries to follow while undertaking evaluations, namely, her concept of women's health and the values and ethical principles that guide her practice. The article presents and discusses three case studies of recent evaluations and reviews that the author was involved in to illustrate how she reinterpreted the terms of reference from a feminist and gender perspective. The article discusses how a feminist evaluator could negotiate the intricate relationships in an evaluation, how to address the issues of power; and the meaning of knowledge-building within an evaluation context.

AbstractBuilding on a cultural studies framework, this article addresses the implementation of the Indian Residential School Settlement Agreement by cataloguing specific reconciliatory events, public forums, and media coverage that occurred in 2010. Revealing the contradictory nature of Canada's reconciliation project, the author situates the IRSSA within a larger infrastructure of policies and procedures that have limited Indigenous nationhood and autonomy in the Canadian settler society. Specifically, this article identifies a need to trouble categories of trauma and victimhood that may engender outcomes ofcure, which ultimately constitute a foreclosure on the past in Canada's reconciliation process. While therapeutic language is less apparent in the IRSSA, the author suggests, it is still deployed under the guise of closure and "settlement."

AbstractThis chapter outlines the logical infrastructure that makes it possible to claim that one can validate values, both at a general and a context‐specific level, other than by direct deduction from other value premises. To make the argument, the author distinguishes between the logic of valuing and the logic of evaluation, the former being the primary focus of the argument, and analyzes the invalidity of the long‐standing value‐free doctrine in social sciences. The author discusses several ways in which we can establish factual as well as evaluative premises by observation, inference, or definition, that make it possible to infer beyond reasonable doubt to evaluative conclusions. © Wiley Periodicals, Inc., and the American Evaluation Association.

In this article, the author reviews the studies in this special issue of the American Behavioral Scientist. It is a strong collection of articles reporting findings from an integrated project that looks at frame building, frames, and effects of frames. The project is part of an exciting large-scale Swiss research program on democracy, NCCR. The author reflects not only on the contents of the issue but also on the framing concept in political communication research more generally. He offers suggestions for conceptual clarity and makes three recommendations about future framing research. They pertain to (a) the types of frames that framing researchers look at, (b) the dynamics of framing effects, and (c) advances in research designs in framing research.

The author dwells on the concept of hospitality which has been replaced in our era by that of tolerance. The author introduces us to contemporary attitudes to the latter and points to its problematic nature, the counterpoint to which is the former. A description of changes in the understanding of hospitality is provided, ranging from antiquity, via the Englightenment, to modern times, with references to Kant and Derrida. Besides this, he compares the differences and similarities between the concepts of tolerance and hospitality, suggesting that it is the latter which is useful when describing a globalised and cosmopolitical world, as well as positing that the concept of hospitality can be translated into the practices of human life.

Although still marginal in academic writing generally, poetry has for some time been recognized as a valid form of representation in qualitative research. Poetry can provide a rich, evocative, and aesthetic means of communication, which ultimately enhances ethnographic work. Like narrative, however, the use of poetry to represent research data also raises questions. Drawing on a school-based critical ethnography of marginalized youth in New Zealand, the author describes how poetry became a part of the research. As poetry is deeply personal, she begins with her own doubts about being a poet and an academic. The author then discusses how poetry can be used in research as a method of bringing the personal and political together in ethnographic writing.

This paper discusses mechanisms to prevent and resolve foreign exchange crises in East Asia. Policies and mechanisms at the country level as well as regional and global levels are discussed. Policies at the level of a particular country to prevent foreign exchange crises include the management of short-term foreign currency liabilities, the adequacy of reserves, and managing episodes of rapid short-term capital inflows. The author discusses the development of regional mechanisms for crisis prevention and resolution in conjunction with the global mechanisms, including the Chiang Mai Initiative (CMI) and the Chiang Mai Initiative Multilateralization (CMIM). The author then suggests how the CMIM can evolve into an integrated crisis prevention and resolution mechanism for East Asia.

Проанализированы теоретико-методологические основы исследования интеграционных процессов в Европе и возможность их применения относительно анализа интеграционных процессов на постсоветском пространстве, в частности в военно-политической сфере. Сделан вывод о том, что следует продолжить теоретико-методологические исследования интеграционных процессов, поскольку последние довольно серьезно влияют на систему международных отношений в целом ; The author has put a target to analyze the theoretical and methodological bases of research integration processes in Europe and the possibility of their application on the analysis of integration processes in the post-Soviet space, particularly in the military-political sphere. The author concludes that we should continue the study of theoretical and methodological integration, since the latter had a large impact on the system of international relations in general

На основе анализа практики Международного суда ООН, а также национальной судебной практики и законодательства ряда государств предпринята попытка раскрыть причины, обусловливающие сложность применения международных обычно-правовых норм; анализируются существующие доктринальные подходы к проблеме функционирования международно-правового обычая. The article is dedicated to one of the actual problems of international law - to the problems of application of international custom. The author, based on analysis of the practice of the International Court of Justice, as well of the national judicial practice and the legislation of several countries, attempts to reveal the reasons that cause the complications of application of international custom. The author also analyzes existing doctrinal approaches to the problem of application of international custom.

Статья посвящена проблематике взаимоотношений Норвегии и Европейского Союза. Рассматриваются главнейшие проблемы геополитической сферы на данный момент, определяются основные геополитические стратегии страны. Автор анализирует главные направления внешней политики Норвегии, ее сотрудничество и разногласия с Европейским Союзом. В статье затрагивается тема взаимоотношений Норвегии и России, а также перспективы этих отношений. ; The article deals with the relationship of Norway and the European Union. The most important problems of geopolitical sphere of present-day are examined closely, and the author defines some cardinal strategies of the country. There is an analysis of the main policy directions of Norway, its cooperation and controversy with the European Union. The author also touches upon the issue of relations between Norway and Russia and their prospects.

В статье анализируются ключевые теоретико-методологические аспекты исследования «политической элиты». Автором утверждается необходимость системного, ориентированного на междисциплинарный подход осмысления понятия «элита», системы ее формирования и принципов функционирования. На основании положений теории неоинституционализма автором делается вывод о том, что от соотношения формальных и неформальных институтов формирования и функционирования политической элиты зависит характер ее развития. ; The article contains analysis of the main theoretical and methodological aspects of «political elite». The author stresses the necessity of interdisciplinary research and system approach to study the elite's formation and functioning. On the basis of new institutional theory the author makes a conclusion that the correlation between formal and informal institutions of political elite's recruitment and functioning determines the trends of elite's development.