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<article article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.2" xml:lang="ru" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="issn">2408-932X</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>Research Result. Social Studies and Humanities</journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="epub">2408-932X</issn></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.18413/2408-932X-2017-3-4-49-53</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">1312</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>MISCCELLANEOUS: MESSAGES, DISCUSSIONS, REVIEWS</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>POLITICAL ANALYTICS AS A SCIENCE (PRAGMATICAL NOTES)</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="en"><trans-title>POLITICAL ANALYTICS AS A SCIENCE (PRAGMATICAL NOTES)</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Tonkikh</surname><given-names>Vladimir A.</given-names></name><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Tonkikh</surname><given-names>Vladimir A.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><email>vladiton@bk.ru</email></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Kolimbet</surname><given-names>Evgeniya D.</given-names></name><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Kolimbet</surname><given-names>Evgeniya D.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><email>E.Kolimbet23@mail.ru</email></contrib></contrib-group><pub-date pub-type="epub"><year>2017</year></pub-date><volume>3</volume><issue>4</issue><fpage>0</fpage><lpage>0</lpage><self-uri content-type="pdf" xlink:href="/media/humanities/2017/4/4-2017-49-53.pdf" /><abstract xml:lang="ru"><p>The authors name the basic peculiarities of political analysis as a scientific activity and analyze the difficulties that exist in the Russian Federation with the determination of the content and the boundaries for this sphere of research</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="en"><p>The authors name the basic peculiarities of political analysis as a scientific activity and analyze the difficulties that exist in the Russian Federation with the determination of the content and the boundaries for this sphere of research</p></trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>political analysis</kwd><kwd>methodological basis of political analysis</kwd><kwd>dimensions of political analysis</kwd><kwd>political analysis in the Russian Federation</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>political analysis</kwd><kwd>methodological basis of political analysis</kwd><kwd>dimensions of political analysis</kwd><kwd>political analysis in the Russian Federation</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front><back><ref-list><title>Список литературы</title><ref id="B1"><mixed-citation>Degtiariov,&amp;nbsp;A.&amp;nbsp;A. (2010), Prikladnoj politicheskij analiz. Elektronnyj uchebnik dlya studentov-politologov [Applied political analysis. Electronic textbook for students of political science], MGIMO, Moscow, Russia. (in Russ.)</mixed-citation></ref><ref id="B2"><mixed-citation>Kurnosov,&amp;nbsp;Yu.&amp;nbsp;V. (2015), Analitika kak intellektual&amp;rsquo;noe oruzhye [Analytics as a smart weapon], Ritm, Moscow, Russia. (in Russ.)</mixed-citation></ref><ref id="B3"><mixed-citation>Politicheskiy analiz i prognozirovanie (2014), [Political analysis and forecasting], by Semenov,&amp;nbsp;V.&amp;nbsp;A., Kolesnikova,&amp;nbsp;V.&amp;nbsp;N. (ed.), Piter, Sankt-Petersburg, Russia. (in Russ.)</mixed-citation></ref><ref id="B4"><mixed-citation>A political scientist explains how big data is transforming politics, by Sean Illing, VOX, URL: https://www.vox.com/conversations/2017/3/16/14935336/big-data-politics-donald-trump-2016-elections-polarization (date of access: October 8, 2017)</mixed-citation></ref></ref-list></back></article>