Political Institutions, Processes and Technologies

The postgraduate program is aimed at training scientific and highly qualified scientific and pedagogical staff in various spheres of socio-political, socio-cultural and economic space (federal, regional and municipal levels), political parties and socio-political movements, regional and international organizations, the system of modern international relations; educational organizations of higher education; study of the essential, institutional, procedural and technological characteristics of the political space, features of political changes, political process subjects, technologies of political mobilization in modern conditions.

Advantages:

• Qualified academic staff including St. Petersburg and Russian renowned scientists, public officials, business sector representatives
• When studying postgraduates will

carry out activities in the various spheres of socio-political, socio-cultural and economic space (federal, regional and municipal levels), in the fields related to political parties and socio-political movements, regional and international organizations, the system of modern international relations; political culture, interaction between government, business and society, educational organizations of higher education

prepare to conduct research and teaching activities in political science, foreign regional studies and Russian regional studies, public policy and social sciences

Main courses:

• History and philosophy of science
• Foreign language
• Political institutions, processes, technologies
• Methodology of political science
• Political conflict resolution
• Ethnopolitical science and national politics

Research:

1. Research subjects are political institutions, processes and technologies
2. Research objects are political systems and political regimes, processes of socio-political transformation, principles and mechanisms of political governance
3. Research topic samples: Electoral behavior and the electoral process in the regions of the modern world. Basic approaches to the analysis of regional elections. Methods for analyzing electoral behavior and electoral processes at the regional level. The uniqueness of technologies for election campaigns at the regional level. Internal and external factors in making political decisions. Political decision-making processes. Interests of actors. Domestic and foreign policy strategies. Strategic cultures. Foreign policy discourse. Ideological discourse and mass political communication. Mechanisms and technologies for the formation of political ideology. Institutions and technologies for promoting political ideology in the public sphere. Political ideology and political advertising. Political humor. Technologies and mechanisms of image formation in ideological discourse. Political brand. Mechanisms and technologies of traditional and digital politics: forms and levels of organization. Globalization, networking and digitalization: political aspects.