Models of Party-Electoral Aggregation in the Political Life of Modern Russia

Abstract

The article analyzes the concept of party-electoral aggregation based on the material of democratic processes in modern Russia. Currently, Russia’s electoral policy is largely focused on parliamentary parties, which also influence the structuring of politics in the State Duma. Parties have become an important element of the Russian political scene. Partyelectoral aggregation is represented today in three basic models: political-marketing, cluster, civil-identical. The study of the evolution of these models shows that as the “democratic transit” passes, the specific weight and leading role of these models in demand in political practice changes. At the initial stages of party building in post-Soviet Russia, the political and marketing model is more in demand as a basic one, in the future – a cluster model in combination with political and marketing model. Currently, party and electoral activities are being reformatted to a model focused on civic identity and political technologies of its formation and functioning. The subsequent in-depth analysis of the evolution and interrelation of these models will allow to form the possibilities of more in-depth party-political analytics and the basis for effective management of these processes