Ethno-territorial factor of perception of power in the new electoral cycle

Understanding the basics of choosing a particular leader, a political force is traditionally an important research field of political psychology. National studies on the subject are focused on the correlation between the preferences of citizens and certain characteristics, such as age, social status, belonging to particular religious or ethnic groups. The significance of this problem is associated not only with understanding of the electoral structure of society and its relation to ethno-territorial map of Russia, but also with the ability to resolve ethnic conflicts by identifying shared basic political values of different ethnic and regional groups. Thus, the general discontent with policies can simultaneously indicate reckless political decisions in the country, as well as shared values, which may be the beginning of integration of a multi-ethnic society. Recent studies focus on perception of politicians and political parties in such ethnic groups as Russians, Tatars, Bashkirs, Ossetians. It turned out that, of course, some differences among different ethnic groups are present, which can be explained by the different types of political culture and mentality. However, what's more important at the time of the political choice are socio-economic factors, particularities of local political institutions and their effectiveness. The cause of psychological problems, which is the result of technical development of regions, is the cognitive basis of political preferences. Support of individual leaders and political parties in each ethnic group corresponds to those in other groups. At the same time, Russian respondents have not been separated in their responses, in general, their opinion coincides with the Tatars', Bashkirs' and Ossetians'. The opinion of close ethnic groups of Tatars and Bashkirs, in some cases, out of tune in the selection of priority values. This means that our society, despite of the ethnic conflict, is not a conflict structure, consisting of two poles: "Russians" and "non-Russians". The same preferences of Russians and other ethnic groups, and different preferences among Tatars, Bashkirs and Ossetians suggest that under the new election cycle we see the split "Russian not Russian.

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