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Modern Mechanisms for Epistemological Actors in Human Rights Policy Process Participation and their Implementation in Different Political Regimes

Civil Society
Governance
Human Rights
Institutions
Interest Groups
Public Policy
Social Capital
Knowledge
Ekaterina Glukhova
National Research University, Higher School of Economics – HSE
Ekaterina Glukhova
National Research University, Higher School of Economics – HSE

Abstract

There are numerous theories describing models and mechanisms of public interests articulation. However, these models do not provide any concrete examples of institutional design for implementation of developed mechanisms, moreover their ideas are quite hard to implement within authoritarian political regimes. In countries with n political regime policy decision-making come down to limiting not just number of actors responsible for making decision, it leads to the decrease of actors participating in policies and knowledge development. Moreover, it is obvious that knowledge is useless without understanding how epistemological societies are organized, what knowledge they produce and procedures, enabling this knowledge implementation. In modern Russia, there are no appropriate institutional structures effectively using the potential of epistemological actors. That results in making ineffective short-term decisions, especially in social welfare spheres. Current research discovers best practices of few Russian regions where experts use Ombudsmen as a participation mechanism.