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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">1654</article-id><title-group xml:lang="ru"><article-title>Research of electoral reform: peculiarities and limitations</article-title></title-group><title-group xml:lang="en"><article-title>Research of electoral reform: peculiarities and limitations</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Evstifeev</surname><given-names>R.V.</given-names></name><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Evstifeev</surname><given-names>R.V.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><email>roman_66@list.ru</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2729" /></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff2729"><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Vladimir Branch of Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="en">Vladimir Branch of Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date date-type="pub"><year>2017</year></pub-date><issue>4</issue><fpage>62</fpage><lpage>66</lpage><history /><self-uri xlink:href="https://kaspy.asu-edu.ru/en/archive/2017/issue/4/article/1654">https://kaspy.asu-edu.ru/en/archive/2017/issue/4/article/1654</self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="https://kaspy.asu-edu.ru/storage/kaspy/archive/4(53)/62-66.pdf" content-type="pdf">https://kaspy.asu-edu.ru/storage/kaspy/archive/4(53)/62-66.pdf</self-uri><abstract xml:lang="ru"><p>The article discusses the data on the special characteristics of electoral reforms. Based on the analysis of studies on electoral reforms in various countries, the author have identified the main patterns of reformsand features of their study, which include the correlation between the goals of change and reform, the direction of reforms and differentiation of "beneficiaries," the contradictory role of the public in carrying out reforms, increasing expectations from electoral reforms, the problem of limited effects of electoral reforms.</p></abstract><abstract xml:lang="en"><p>The article discusses the data on the special characteristics of electoral reforms. Based on the analysis of studies on electoral reforms in various countries, the author have identified the main patterns of reformsand features of their study, which include the correlation between the goals of change and reform, the direction of reforms and differentiation of "beneficiaries," the contradictory role of the public in carrying out reforms, increasing expectations from electoral reforms, the problem of limited effects of electoral reforms.</p></abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>электоральные реформы</kwd><kwd>электоральная государственная политика</kwd><kwd>кросс-национальные исследования</kwd><kwd>electoral reforms</kwd><kwd>electoral state policy</kwd><kwd>cross-national studies</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>электоральные реформы</kwd><kwd>электоральная государственная политика</kwd><kwd>кросс-национальные исследования</kwd><kwd>electoral reforms</kwd><kwd>electoral state policy</kwd><kwd>cross-national studies</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>