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<article xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.2" xml:lang="ru"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">kaspy</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="ru">THE CASPIAN REGION: politics, economics, culture</journal-title></journal-title-group><issn publication-format="electronic" /><issn publication-format="print">1818-510X</issn><publisher><publisher-name xml:lang="ru">Астраханский государственный университет им. В. Н. Татищева</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">261</article-id><title-group xml:lang="ru"><article-title>Rating and anti-rating of elite: imitation and elitism falsification in elite</article-title></title-group><title-group xml:lang="en"><article-title>Rating and anti-rating of elite: imitation and elitism falsification in elite</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Karabushchenko</surname><given-names>Pavel L.</given-names></name><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Karabushchenko</surname><given-names>Pavel L.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><email>Pavel_karabushenko@mail.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff337" /></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff337"><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Astrakhan State University</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="en">Astrakhan State University</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date date-type="pub"><year>2013</year></pub-date><issue>4</issue><fpage>215</fpage><lpage>224</lpage><history /><self-uri xlink:href="https://kaspy.asu-edu.ru/en/archive/2013/issue/4/article/261">https://kaspy.asu-edu.ru/en/archive/2013/issue/4/article/261</self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="https://kaspy.asu-edu.ru/storage/kaspy/archive/4(37)/215-224.pdf" content-type="pdf">https://kaspy.asu-edu.ru/storage/kaspy/archive/4(37)/215-224.pdf</self-uri><abstract xml:lang="ru"><p>Modern political leaders and elites are simply mad about the ratings. Political advertizing (as which PR acts) serves them sometimes as the unique justification of their stay in the power. But can we say, that ratings reflect the real party of political elite and why they are necessary Many ratings drive the inhabitant in the error and serve to the consolidation of image of those politicians, who prefers to use PR technologies in order to hide wretchedness of their IQ.</p></abstract><abstract xml:lang="en"><p>Modern political leaders and elites are simply mad about the ratings. Political advertizing (as which PR acts) serves them sometimes as the unique justification of their stay in the power. But can we say, that ratings reflect the real party of political elite and why they are necessary Many ratings drive the inhabitant in the error and serve to the consolidation of image of those politicians, who prefers to use PR technologies in order to hide wretchedness of their IQ.</p></abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>elite</kwd><kwd>elitism</kwd><kwd>post-industrialism</kwd><kwd>geopolitics</kwd><kwd>meritocracy</kwd><kwd>creativity</kwd><kwd>domination</kwd><kwd>political power</kwd><kwd>intellectual superiority</kwd><kwd>hierarchy</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>elite</kwd><kwd>elitism</kwd><kwd>post-industrialism</kwd><kwd>geopolitics</kwd><kwd>meritocracy</kwd><kwd>creativity</kwd><kwd>domination</kwd><kwd>political power</kwd><kwd>intellectual superiority</kwd><kwd>hierarchy</kwd></kwd-group><funding-group xml:lang="ru"><funding-statement /></funding-group><funding-group xml:lang="en"><funding-statement /></funding-group></article-meta></front><body /><back><ref-list /></back></article>