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This article provides insights into the motivation of future highly skilled workers to become lon... more This article provides insights into the motivation of future highly skilled workers to become long-distance commuters (LDC) (i.e. fly-in/fly-out [FIFO]/drive-in/drive-out [DIDO]) to remote Arctic and Subarctic petroleum extraction sites. The study draws on a sample of students from long-distance commuter families, who study at the Ufa State Petroleum Technical University (UGNTU) in the Republic of Bashkortostan: a primary LDC sending region in Russia. The study is based on ethnographic qualitative and quantitative research. It shows that LDC shift work is seen as both a socioeconomic necessity and a prospering career by half of the respondents. The readiness for long-distance commuting was nearly equal among male and female students. Furthermore, it is an attractive form of gaining a livelihood, especially in rural regions like those in the Republic of Bashkortostan with a competitive labour market and poor socioeconomic development. On the other hand, the repeated separation from family, long travel times, inconvenient life in camps as well as health and safety concerns were cited as deterrents for the other half of the respondents. The article highlights disparities between urban and rural areas as well as between those in full-time LDC and those commuting to earn additional income to supplement their regular agricultural work.
В Мире Научных Открытий, Dec 1, 2014
Political development of Russia during last two decades is more often considered by researchers a... more Political development of Russia during last two decades is more often
considered by researchers as transformation process from one form of the
hybrid regime – defective democracy, to another one – competitive authoritarianism.
Thus, political experience of Russia gives the opportunity for
comparative analysis of political opposition evolution in the context of different
hybrid regime types. How do regime characteristics influence the dynamics
of opposition competitive opportunities? Is it possible to calculate
real political opposition competitive opportunities under such conditions
when electoral results are essentially slanted and cannot be evidence of
real support for oppositional actors on the part of citizens? The measurement
procedure of political opposition competitive opportunities by means
of the index analysis is presented in this article. The proposed coding scale
of opposition merits and demerits valuation considers both structural possibilities
and regime incentives that determine resources distribution between
government and opposition. Measuring of opposition competitive
opportunities dynamics in Russia during 1993-2012 made it possible to
reveal specific features of influence of various forms of the hybrid regime
on oppositional actors’ evolution.
This article provides insights into the motivation of future highly skilled workers to become lon... more This article provides insights into the motivation of future highly skilled workers to become long-distance commuters (LDC) (i.e. fly-in/fly-out [FIFO]/drive-in/drive-out [DIDO]) to remote Arctic and Subarctic petroleum extraction sites. The study draws on a sample of students from long-distance commuter families, who study at the Ufa State Petroleum Technical University (UGNTU) in the Republic of Bashkortostan: a primary LDC sending region in Russia. The study is based on ethnographic qualitative and quantitative research. It shows that LDC shift work is seen as both a socioeconomic necessity and a prospering career by half of the respondents. The readiness for long-distance commuting was nearly equal among male and female students. Furthermore, it is an attractive form of gaining a livelihood, especially in rural regions like those in the Republic of Bashkortostan with a competitive labour market and poor socioeconomic development. On the other hand, the repeated separation from family, long travel times, inconvenient life in camps as well as health and safety concerns were cited as deterrents for the other half of the respondents. The article highlights disparities between urban and rural areas as well as between those in full-time LDC and those commuting to earn additional income to supplement their regular agricultural work.
В Мире Научных Открытий, Dec 1, 2014
Political development of Russia during last two decades is more often considered by researchers a... more Political development of Russia during last two decades is more often
considered by researchers as transformation process from one form of the
hybrid regime – defective democracy, to another one – competitive authoritarianism.
Thus, political experience of Russia gives the opportunity for
comparative analysis of political opposition evolution in the context of different
hybrid regime types. How do regime characteristics influence the dynamics
of opposition competitive opportunities? Is it possible to calculate
real political opposition competitive opportunities under such conditions
when electoral results are essentially slanted and cannot be evidence of
real support for oppositional actors on the part of citizens? The measurement
procedure of political opposition competitive opportunities by means
of the index analysis is presented in this article. The proposed coding scale
of opposition merits and demerits valuation considers both structural possibilities
and regime incentives that determine resources distribution between
government and opposition. Measuring of opposition competitive
opportunities dynamics in Russia during 1993-2012 made it possible to
reveal specific features of influence of various forms of the hybrid regime
on oppositional actors’ evolution.