Bystrova A., Daugavet A., Duka A., Kolesnik N., Nevskiy A., Tev D. Institutsionalizatsiya regional'noy administrativnoy elity: basseyn rekrutirovaniya i kar'yernyye trayektorii [Institutionalization of the Regional Administrative Elite: Recruitment Pool and Career Trajectories]. Vlast’ i elity [Power and Elites], 2021, 8 (2): 24-51. DOI: https: ...

Abstract

The article presents the analysis of studies devoted to the pool of recruitment and career trajectories of the administrative elite from the point of view of the problem of its institutionalization. The importance of studying the socio-demographic and socio-professional characteristics of the administrative elite is related to the fact that it not only clarifies the structure of social and political power that underlies elite recruitment, but also allows us to better understand the political attitudes and behavior of senior officials. Moreover, the degree of homogeneity of the pool of recruitment of the administrative elite can influence the level of its cohesion. In domestic and foreign literature, such important trends in the recruitment of the federal administrative elite of Russia as professionalization, nomenclaturization, militarization and plutocratization are identified and analyzed, and its gender and educational characteristics are shown. However, at the regional level, the main attention was paid to the governors, while the administrative elite as a whole remains insufficiently studied, especially in connection with the problem of its institutionalization in the context of the transformation of Russian society. It seems that from this point of view, it is necessary to study the sources and channels of recruitment of the key officials in dynamics, over a long period of time, which makes it possible to compare their socio-demographic and socio-professional characteristics in different historical periods with the specific opportunity structure of administrative career inherent in them.