title: Presidency Institute in Post-Soviet Countries: Evaluation Method, Factors of Model Formation and Transformation
abstract: Due to various reasons, several presidentialistic models influencing regime transformation paths, were formed in independent post-Soviet countries. Along with this, despite several coups, power shift and political elite renewal, each model turned out to be extremely stable demonstrating a trend toward reproduction (i.e., institutionalization that requires explanation and conceptualization). To begin with, novelty of the research is that a post-Soviet presidency institute of a certain country or 
journal: Russian Foundation for Basic Research Journal Humanities and social sciences