THE INFLUENCE OF LATENT FORMS OF POLITICAL RIVALRY ON THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE ELECTION SYSTEM OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
The article is devoted to special features of the modernization of the election mechanism in the Russian Federation. These features are acquired due to the influence of latent structures of the political landscape on this process. The article raises a number of topics directly related to the specified issues, in particular, the conversion of various types of resources into an authority; as well as into crony capitalism in Russia, the social implications of the presence of clan communities in the political process and the voters’ political apathy. The author reveals the idea that if the modernization of the election mechanism entails deprivation of political potential of latent political communities, the latter will hamper the progress of such modernization.