Adaptive Capacity of Regional Political Systems in Conditions of Information Uncertainty (the Central Chernozyomny Region Cases)

The work deals with the regional political systems of the Central Chernozemny Region. The author is trying to explain how regional political systems adapt to federal trends in the information uncertainty. Uncertainty was defined as an environmental characteristic and implies how subjects perceive a multiple and constantly changing agenda and adapt to it. Considering the subjects of the socio-political process and their adaptation models, we used a systemic paradigm to describe the effects of the public agents actions. The paper also presents a methodology for studying the adaptive potential of a regional political system. It was made a typology of regional political systems: elite conspiracy (cliques); elite dominance and fragmented participation; consensus-based dominance of incumbents / technocratic authoritarianism; dynamic consensus; pluralistic model. All political systems of the Chernozemny Region were attributed to the model of technocratic authoritarianism, but inside they are not homogeneous: the contribution of public actors, including initiative groups, is still differ. But the willingness to perceive and produce new forms of communication is equally low in all studied regions. The agents inside the system retain a “narrow vision” in a limited context: he may not see opportunities, not believe in success, evaluate the costs of going beyond the usual routines as excessively high, etc.