A comprehensive situational approach to modeling politics as an extraordinary phenomenon
- Authors: Krutov A.V.1
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Affiliations:
- Moscow Aviation Institute (National Research University)
- Issue: Vol 15, No 1 (2025)
- Pages: 15-23
- Section: History and Theory of Politics
- URL: https://journals.eco-vector.com/2223-0092/article/view/679134
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.33693/2223-0092-2025-15-1-15-23
- EDN: https://elibrary.ru/HMOBNB
- ID: 679134
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Abstract
The article examines politics as the practice of solving extraordinary problems that cannot be solved at the level of political and administrative management. The purpose of the work is to reveal the content of “extraordinary politics”, showing the process of its implementation and the possibilities of description using philosophical and mathematical methods. This policy reflects the unpredictable changes in the modern world, so its model has scientific and practical significance. Research objectives: to identify the difference between extraordinary policy and administration; to demonstrate the features of the structure and dynamics of the situation change; to propose a scheme of actions of the subject to turn the situation into an event using intuition and reflection, loyalty to the cause. The process of extraordinary politics includes recording signs of an aggravation of the situation; an idea of the trajectory of the transformation of the situation into an event; a risky decision to intervene (on a bet) in it; a sequence of small events adequate to the subject’s plan and the changing situation; consolidation of a complicated situation as a new historical event. Extraordinary politics as an object is described by a model for the development of human-sized systems with a socio-humanitarian dominant and the construction of a special subject. The subject locally constructs small events based on incomplete knowledge, reflecting, intuitively building the next intervention, optimizing the course of acceptable actions by being faithful to his duty to the event.
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Aleksandr V. Krutov
Moscow Aviation Institute (National Research University)
Author for correspondence.
Email: avkrutov@inbox.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-4770-047X
Cand. Sci. (Polit.), Associate Professor
Russian Federation, MoscowReferences
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