Political Innovation as a Communicative Process: the receptivity of elites to innovations
https://doi.org/10.21453/2311-3065-2021-9-3-131-143
Abstract
The paper is dedicated to the analysis of political innovations in the context of the general theory of innovation. The author defines the main scientific approaches used in social sciences and humanities to innovations, identifies the political features of the introduction of innovations, and, based on the examination of the problems of innovations introduction from the standpoint of political science, analyzes the role of Russian elites in the development of modern Russia. The study reveals the content of the concepts of innovation in the political sphere and political innovation, which are not that much the innovations per se, but the political processes determined by these innovations, as well as the associated political decisions and applied innovative political technologies. The article reveals the role of Russian elites in the innovative development of Russia, analyzes the susceptibility of Russian elites to innovations on the basis of the Elite Quality Index, and shows their ability to implement policies for the innovative development of Russia.
About the Author
V. V. Tereshchenko
The South Russian Institute of Management – branch of Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA)
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Tereshchenko Viktor Viktorovich – postgraduate student of the Department of Political Science and Ethnopolitics
344002, Rostov-on-Don, Pushkinskaya str., 70/54
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Tereshchenko V.V. Political Innovation as a Communicative Process: the receptivity of elites to innovations. Communicology. 2021;9(3):131-143. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.21453/2311-3065-2021-9-3-131-143
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