Recruiting Young Political Leaders in Modern Russia: Channels, Forms, Technologies

The article is devoted to the issue of recruiting young political leaders in modern Russia. This issue is relevant due to the fact that today, despite the large number of officials in the country, there is a certain personnel shortage at all levels of government and thus a need for effective managers who are able to strategically think and work in a system of changes. All this necessitates the establishment and development of an institution of youth political elites, which is able to provide governing bodies at different levels with youth leaders and qualified personnel. At the same time, the current tendency to rejuvenate the political elite is largely the consequence of the rejection of the need to go through all the nomenclature stages, the presence of certain resources in young people or their manifestation of activity, but not the result of a systematic work in this direction. This necessitates a scientific understanding of the problem of training political leaders among young people and a systematizing of the process of their recruitment. The aim of this study is to identify and summarize existing practices, forms, channels of search and selection of young people, technologies for developing their leadership potential, integration into the political elite of the country. The object of the analysis is the process of recruiting young political leaders. The theoretical and methodological research platform is a political and psychological approach that allows integrating various provisions of the social sciences and applies psychological knowledge to analyze the stated problem in the subject field of political science. During the study, the authors analyzed the existing forms of support for youth initiatives and the recruitment of young leaders; technologies, methods and tools for the search, selection, development and support of young political leaders, channels and practices for their recruitment. The analysis was based on information from the websites of political parties, youth movements and organizations, youth public institutions, state and municipal authorities, as well as from recent research articles on recruitment issues. The results obtained indicate the need for the optimization and systematization of the recruiting process. Therefore, as conclusions, the authors justify the need for annual monitoring in this direction, speak about the need for the young political elite to form a system of national values and symbols, as well as an ideological foundation. The authors conclude about the need to create a unified system of training, retraining, and advanced training for young politicians, as well as the need for the formation of the civic identity and patriotic behavior of young politicians. It is proposed to achieve the latter through their active involvement in political activity at the municipal, regional, and federal levels.

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