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The aim of the article is to analyze theories of electoral cycles, to determinate electoral cycles in Russia and to demonstrate the influence of elections upon political development in Russia.

Keywords: electoral cycle, typology of elections, political development.

The article analyses the concept of the “electonic government” and proves its ideological character as the element of etatist discourse of “information society”. The author uses official sites of Russian governmental powers as the example.

Keywords: “Electronic government”, “information society”, etatist discourse, official sites of governmental powers.

The author analyzes how Internet and computer users include these new technologies into social context and ideological constructions which are used for this purpose. She shows the cultural difference in understanding of computer-mediated communication and social consequences of information revolution depending on users’ skills and demographical status. The article is based on the results of focus-group series, which took place in Ekaterinburg.

Keywords: elite discourse, common sense constructions, mass culture, information poverty, information richness

The paper examines the phenomenon of The German Islam Conference – the new form of the dialogue with Muslims at the state level, and analyzes the reasons of its origin, conditions of initiation, tasks, practical results and public resonance. In spite of the limited final decisions, the Conference contributed to the appreciable polarization of public opinion concerning the basic values of Leitkultur and the integration policy of the German leadership.

Keywords: Islam, Islam Conference, muslim-state relations, integration policy, integration, religious identity.

The author advocates the concept of property contract, in according to which the latter is a result of classification of civil-law contract as the object of contract regulation.

Keywords: property contract, property-promissory contract, property legal relation, the object of civil-law contract regulation, civil-law contract regulations.

The article describes the modern concept of representation in Russian Federation with reference to the legislation of continental European countries. The result of such comparison becomes the basis to draw parallels with English law of agency and to expose the essence of legal characteristics of civil law concept of representation.

Keywords: legal representation, consensual representation, acting in the name of the principal, commission, “extrapersonal effect”, publicity principle, principle of independence, isolated authorization, conflict of interests, commercial agency.

The article considers the policy of constitutional transformation of federal relations and of modernization of electoral legislation. The author defends the necessity of the constitutional stability.

Keywords: constitutional transformation (reorganization), constitutional stability, federal reform, modernization of electoral legislation.

The article considers basic viewpoints on the relation of legal personality and competence of state bodies. The author argues that above-mentioned terms have different content. Nevertheless, the competence of state bodied is regarded as one of the factors, which influence the very nature of their legal personality.

Keywords: state body, legal entity, state power, competence, authority, legal personality of the state body, rights and duties of the state body.

The article analyzes the institute of public hearing in the context of development of deliberative democracy institutes, describes history of formation and development of deliberative democracy institutes in Russia and foreign countries and examines the status of present-day Russian public hearing legislation.

Keywords: public hearing, deliberative democracy, history of formation and development of the institute of public hearing, public hearing legislation.

In the article the author analyzes the legal institute of draft lottery. This institute had been used for drafting of recruits into the army in Russian Empire (XVIII – the first half of XIX centuries) and for implementing of the general conscription to the military forces in the conditions of universal military obligation in Russian Empire (the second half of XIX – the beginning of XX centuries) and in the first years of USSR as well.

Keywords: recruits, draft, lot drawing, draft lottery, military appeals.

The theory of public representation is reconstructed in the context of two legal traditions: republican and democratic. Substantive provisions of G. Ellinek theory of civil participation are named. Distinctions between G. Ellinek's concept and Russian jurists’ theories of national representation the beginning of XX c. are determined.

Keywords: republic, democracy, participation of citizens in implementation of public authority, public representation, public interest, the mixed form of power.