{"title":"Spatial patterns of the school elections in Sweden","authors":"F. Chernetskii","doi":"10.5922/1994-5280-2022-2-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5922/1994-5280-2022-2-9","url":null,"abstract":"Talking about school elections implies a talk about an experiment which allows teenagers to familiarize themselves with their country’s electoral culture. It also provides an opportunity to learn about candidates, political parties, political debates, and electoral process in general. These «experimental elections» have been taking place in Sweden since the end of the XX century. Nowadays, most of school students participate in the school elections. The results of this voting can be analysed as well as the results of common elections except the fact of analysing electoral preferences of small and relatively homogeneous group. In this particular article school elections that had taken place in Sweden in 2018 were analysed as a spatial process. Final results of voting are quite close to those that can be seen in common elections though spatial diversity varies. The results of school elections also show the increasing role of contextual (neighbourhood) effect comparing to «adult» elections and brings out an unexpectedly high difference in electoral behaviour between students of schools and those who study in colleges.","PeriodicalId":148240,"journal":{"name":"Regional nye issledovaniya","volume":"139 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115987961","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Possibility of decentralisation during the year of pandemic: what does the analysis of public budgets reveal?","authors":"N. Zubarevich","doi":"10.5922/1994-5280-2021-1-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5922/1994-5280-2021-1-4","url":null,"abstract":"In the year of the pandemic transfers from the federal to the regional budgets increased by 50 per cent which led to an increase in budget revenues in most regions and made regional budgets more dependent on federal support. The proportion of earmarked transfers (subventions and subsidies) increased, making reassignment of budgetary funds difficult. The regions were forced to spend additional money on designated projects only, which resulted in further centralisation of budget management. The transfer calculation became less transparent, additional transfers were not linked to the decrease in regional budgets’ own revenues. Before the pandemic, «geopolitically» important regions had been prioritised for federal transfers. In 2020 interpretation of transfer distribution became much more difficult due to the lack of coordination between various federal ministries in their transfer calculations. Budget federalism in Russia had been limited to some freedom in choosing expenditure priorities for the regions, but in the year of the pandemic these opportunities dwindled. Health expenditure and social protectionbecame common priorities because a lot of additional transfers were earmarked for these purposes. Other regional priorities differed but most regions subsidised utility tariffs and increased spending on national economy in order to reach targets of the Presidential Decree. Hopes of decentralisation of the Russian budget system during the pandemic did not come true and regional dependence on the federal authorities increased.","PeriodicalId":148240,"journal":{"name":"Regional nye issledovaniya","volume":"108 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121392503","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Agriculture of the Kursk oblast: trajectory of unsustainable development","authors":"N. Klyuev","doi":"10.5922/1994-5280-2020-3-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5922/1994-5280-2020-3-5","url":null,"abstract":"Changes in the structure and territorial organization of agriculture of the Kursk region in the process of its adaptation to post-Soviet economic conditions are revealed. In the crisis 1990s, a strong decline in agricultural production was accompanied by a polarization of the territory into islands of relative prosperity in areas with better land and around large, economically successful industrial enterprises, on the one hand, and the northwestern periphery, characterized by degradation of agricultural production and renaturalization of agricultural landscapes, on the other. The recovery growth of agriculture that began in the 2010s has led to a new spatial structuring – the concentration of livestock in certain places during the selective development of agricultural land by agricultural holdings in the region. This deter- mines a high degree of territorial differentiation of scale, specialization, structure and technical equip- ment of regional farms. Multiple differences between the regions in the provision of farms equipment, the level of fertilization, the role of farms of different categories have been revealed. The center of the region has lost its leading position in agricultural production. Positive agricultural dynamics is accompanied by negative ecological processes: insufficient level of fertilization, monoculture in agriculture, deterioration of the structure of sown areas, poor utilization of increasing waste of livestock complexes. The modern agricultural specialization of the districts of the Kursk region and their characteristic agro- ecological problems are established.","PeriodicalId":148240,"journal":{"name":"Regional nye issledovaniya","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128984575","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mathematical and statistical modeling of hierarсhy and heterarchy of economic-geographical systems","authors":"A. Cherkashin, A. Myadzelets","doi":"10.5922/1994-5280-2021-4-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5922/1994-5280-2021-4-1","url":null,"abstract":"The paper considers the structure of territorial economic-geographical system of Russian regions in the vertical (hierarchy) and horizontal (heterarchy) aspects using methods of mathematical modeling of a multilevel indicative function. It connects indicators of socio-economic development of regions and takes into account characteristics of the economic-geographical environment and regional spatial hierarchy. For the model calculations, we use data of dependence of the annual regional domestic in- vestment on the volume of industrial and agricultural production from 1999 to 2018. The calculated values of investment acceleration indicators vary in time and between regions. They reflect the variability of the economic-geographical environment at the different hierarchical levels. A logical chain of regression equations statistically describes the vertical hierarchy of the Russian economic system. Linear regional trends form groups, or congruencies, with similar norms of the socio-economic environment at the federal okrug level. The congruencies shape the all-Russian directive surface, or directress, and demonstrate diversity of the levels and directions of region development. Described in terms of the relationship between domestic investment and production volumes, the structure reflects the hierarchy of the Russian economic system at the regional, okrug and state levels and forms spatial heterarchical network of similarity of economic growth potentials.","PeriodicalId":148240,"journal":{"name":"Regional nye issledovaniya","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114908344","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Spatial dimension of Eurasian integration","authors":"L. Vardomskiy","doi":"10.5922/1994-5280-2021-4-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5922/1994-5280-2021-4-2","url":null,"abstract":"The institutions of Eurasian integration were formed on the basis of the experience of other integration associations, but taking into account the specifi of the participating countries. The article assesses the infl of spatial factors on the EAEU, which has not yet been suffi studied, although it is very noticeable. Among these factors are the sharp dominance of Russia in the EAEU, large social and economic differences at the country and regional level, the predominance of energy and its infrastructure in the interaction of the participating countries, the deep situation in Eurasia. The existing institutions are mainly aimed at ensuring freedom for mutual trade and cross-border movement of the population. This has mainly benefi the capital cities, which are the main part of mutual trade and labor migrations. At the same time, they did not stimulate the development of industrial and technological cooperation of the participating countries. The Eurasian integration does not yet contribute to the weakening of the uneven spatial development in the participating countries, which fuels skepticism about the EAEU and increases internal political instability. The recently adopted “Strategic directions for the development of the Eurasian Economic Integration until 2025” imply the adjustment of integration institutions in the direction of strengthening the elements of coordination and joint design in them. This will make it possible to reduce the negative impact of the intra-continental situation and more actively use the potential of the central position in Eurasia. The system of measures of joint economic policy presented in them creates a new platform for sustainable interaction between states, national communities and business for more effective use of the Eurasian space occupied by them.","PeriodicalId":148240,"journal":{"name":"Regional nye issledovaniya","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132881616","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Potential for settlement developing: concept, subject matter, composition","authors":"P. Baklanov","doi":"10.5922/1994-5280-2022-4-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5922/1994-5280-2022-4-1","url":null,"abstract":"The idea of a potential for the development of a settlement as its integral property to maintain and increase the level of its socio-economic development, is given. The settlement potential is determined by the level of development of the components of its internal and external structure, their interconnectedness and interdependence. The author defines the permanent components of the internal structure, forming functional blocks like population, social and industrial infrastructure, service sector, as well as natural resource ones, including the territory and components of the natural environment. All these components and their functional blocks are necessary and mandatory for any settlement. The components of the economic sector are required for the settlement, but they are variable and different in distinct settlements. The population consisting of various sex and age groups is the central block. To assess the development potential of a settlement, it is necessary to structure it and weigh the connectivity and interdependence of the components of various blocks, their level of development and elasticity. The second part of the potential is formed by the external structural links of the settlement, which constitute the territorial socio-economic system defined for the central settlement. This system includes all neighboring settlements and nature management structures that are directly tied with the central settlement by a transport network. The generalized schemes of the invariant functional structure of a settlement as well as the estimates of the connectivity and interdependence of the components of various functional blocks are given. Concenters of connectedness and interdependence of blocks directed from the population are distinguished.","PeriodicalId":148240,"journal":{"name":"Regional nye issledovaniya","volume":"193 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133249933","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Territorial differentiation of public health in Kamchatka Krai","authors":"A. Pogorelov","doi":"10.5922/1994-5280-2022-1-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5922/1994-5280-2022-1-5","url":null,"abstract":"Prospects for long-term socio-economic development of Russian regions necessitate the implementation of new spatial assessments of the most important characteristics of living conditions and public health. The purpose of this study was to conduct a territorially differentiated assessment of the population health status of the Kamchatka Region over the last decade (2010-2019). This study was based on a cluster analysis of the main administrative-territorial units (districts) of the Kamchatka Region using five thematic indices. All indices characterize the complex state of population health. The indices were calculated for five blocks of indicators with 17 medico-demographic and epidemiological parameters. Cluster analysis classified all districts of the Kamchatka Region into five clusters (types). The five clusters of districts with different levels of population health status (above average, average, below average, low, very low) have been analyzed using comparative method. The most unfavorable levels of population health status were identified in the fourth (Karaginsky, Olyutorsky) and fifth (Penzhinsky, Tigilsky, Bystrinsky) clusters of districts. An important research perspective in the future is the development of new measures in the field of regional and municipal health care in the Kamchatka Region.","PeriodicalId":148240,"journal":{"name":"Regional nye issledovaniya","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132977872","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Territorial and sectoral structureof the Yuzhno-Primorsky industrial district","authors":"A. Moshkov","doi":"10.5922/1994-5280-2022-2-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5922/1994-5280-2022-2-7","url":null,"abstract":"In Pacific Russia, the South Primorsky Industrial District is being formed with specialization in marine economic activities like shipbuilding and ship repair, fishing industry, marine transport. The leading factors in the district’s production forming process are in qualified labor resources, developed social and industrial infrastructure, stable demand for products and services of marine economic activities, favorable coastal economic and geographical location. Aspatial set of interrelated elements (settlements) with a specific territorial and sectoral structure is formed there. The territorial and sectoral structure of this industrial district presents an interconnected spatial combination of enterprises (organizations) located in settlements of different ranks from economic centers (nodes) to socio–economic regions consisting of one or more administrative and economic districts (federal units of the Russian Federation, municipalities). The closest relations between the enterprises of economic centers united by a common economic specialization, as well as the use of common objects of transport, industrial and social infrastructure are noted. Large enterprises in the industrial district not only use the available favorable factors for the development of production, but can also create conditions for the emergence of needed factors (attract labor, investors, initiate local authorities on infrastructure development, etc.). As a result of such interaction in the south of Pacific Russia there have been developed the relevant conditions for the formation of the South-Primorsky Industrial District, a relatively small area of concentration of specialized enterprises (or groups of enterprises, economic centers) consisting mainly of marine economic activities and united by a common industrial and social infrastructure, which provides them with additional economic effect.","PeriodicalId":148240,"journal":{"name":"Regional nye issledovaniya","volume":"67 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124578056","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Does geographical concentration affect the profitability of Russian enterprises?","authors":"K. Rostislav","doi":"10.5922/1994-5280-2021-1-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5922/1994-5280-2021-1-1","url":null,"abstract":"The article shows that profitability is, first, the best measurable approximation to productivity at the level of individual enterprises, and, second, an indicator that captures the possible benefits (or costs) of geographical concentration (agglomeration externalities) in their entirety. The analysis of open microdata of Rosstat and the Federal Tax Service on organizations with an average number of employees of no more than 250 reveals that in Russia the differences in profitability between cities and between industries with different levels of spatial concentration are small and poorly related to geographical conditions (the so-called benefits of localization and urbanization). Worse terms of trade, in particular higher labour costs, outweigh the productivity gains from concentration. At the same time, there are weak signs of a smaller spread of profitability among enterprises in more central territories due to better opportunities for imitation and exchange of experience. The profitability of enterprises is significantly influenced by their industry, but this relationship does not arise due to differences between industries in the degree of their geographical concentration. To assess the agglomeration effects, new measures of centrality that appreciate the network nature of territorial relations between residents of localities were used.","PeriodicalId":148240,"journal":{"name":"Regional nye issledovaniya","volume":"100 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116379722","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cities of the Moscow Capital Region: official and real","authors":"A. Makhrova, R. Babkin","doi":"10.5922/1994-5280-2022-1-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5922/1994-5280-2022-1-1","url":null,"abstract":"The article considers methodological approaches and criteria for the delimitation of urban settlements within larger metropolitan areas by the case of Moscow region. It is shown that the techniques using mobile operator data provide good results for the identification of “true” cities. It allows to identify a city in its “physical” borders by 500x500 m cells as a lowest territorial unit and more correctly reflect the number of the population. The most applicable method turned out to be based on the indicators of the population of continuous built-up areas of over 15 thousand people and population density of over 1000 people/km2. As an additional criterion the existing and former borders of settlements are taken into account that despite their subjective nature, perform a barrier function. According to the proposed methodology, 92 “true” cities were allocated in Moscow region against 76 existing cities (outside former borders of Moscow). These, along with some of the official cities, included large urban-type settlements and villages, abolished cities and towns, as well as conglomerates of several small settlements, including those in New Moscow. The belt-sector structure of “real” cities distribution duplicates the pattern of the urban settlement network with higher concentration in nearest suburbs and in eastern sector of the region. As well as for the official cities of the region, Rosstat underestimates population for centers located up to 40 km from the MKAD, and overestimates it in more remote cities.","PeriodicalId":148240,"journal":{"name":"Regional nye issledovaniya","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115679125","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}