| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
UYAMA Tomohiko Hokkaido University, Slavic Research Center, Associate Professor, スラブ研究センター, 助教授 (40281852)
IEDA Osamu Hokkaido University, Slavic Research Center, Professor, スラブ研究センター, 教授 (20184369)
KOMORIDA Akio Tokyo University, Institute of Social Sciences, Professor, 社会科学研究所, 教授 (30103906)
ISHIDA Shin-ichi Atomi-Gakuen University, Faculty of Literature, Lecturer, 文学部, 教授 (80282284)
SENGOKU Manabu Seinan-Gakuin University, Law Faculty, Associate Professor, 法学部, 助教授 (30289508)
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| Research Abstract |
This project aimed at covering post-communist countries as many as possible. Consequently, while promoting further the study of the countries which had been already studied before this project (e.g., Russian regions of Russia, Eastern Central European countries, Ukraine, and Croatia), this project established a bridgehead to study unknown countries and regions, such as Russian national republics, Tadzhikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Lithuania, and Belarus. Methodologically, this project tried to analyze regional and local politics comprehensively, covering institutional reforms, elites, party systems, and electoral geographies. As a result, this project confirmed the significance of regional identities, pivotal to combine multi-disciplinary approaches to regions, and proved that local reforms in post-communist countries have been determined by the level of strength of the meso-elites of the country. Moreover, this project promoted the concept of "interpolitical relations" to synthesize the emerging political regionology with traditional state-oriented political science, while paying attention to international roles played by regions (in particular, gateway-regions). Recognizing the emergence of machine politics in CIS countries, this project proposed to pay attention to regional and local elites' activities, rather than voters' preferences.
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