Author: Nathan Robert HammPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Understanding Russia's Parliamentary Elections: 1993-1999
Author: Nathan Robert HammUnderstanding Russia's 1993 parliamentary elections
Author: Publisher: Hoover Press
ISBN: 9780817955434
Category : Fascism
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Understanding Russia's 1993 Parliamentary Elections
Author: Michael McFaulPublisher: Hoover Inst Press
ISBN: 9780817955427
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 55
Book Description
Parliamentary Elections in Russia
Author: Derek Stanford HutchesonPublisher: British Academy Monographs
ISBN: 9780197266281
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
As a nuclear power, UN Security Council member, emerging Arctic hegemon and the largest state in the world, Russia--and its stability--is of extreme importance in global politics. In the most comprehensive long-term study to date, Derek Hutcheson argues that Russia's legislature, the Federal Assembly, forms an integral part of the country's political system and machinery of governance. Having previously formed a counterweight to presidential power under Boris Yeltsin, the legislative agenda has become more centralised under Vladimir Putin. Successive changes to the electoral and party systems have resulted in the dominance of a four-party 'cartel', with the pro-presidential United Russia party at its centre. A perception that Russian elections are predictable, controlled and pointless to examine has grown, but Hutcheson reminds us that real voters cast real ballots. This book tells the story of how the electoral system has evolved, how campaign strategies have developed and how voting behaviour has changed. Hutcheson has utilised a combination of official data and new primary material to set 25 years of Russian parliamentary elections into context. Putting forward an in-depth analysis of post-Soviet politics, he looks forward to the next stage in Russia's political evolution just as he looked back.
The New Kremlinology
Author: Alexander BaturoPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192896199
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
This book is the in-depth examination of the development of regime personalization in Russia.
The Forensics of Election Fraud
Author: Mikhail MyagkovPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 052176470X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
A forensics approach to detecting election fraud -- The fingerprints of fraud -- Russia -- Ukraine 2004 -- Ukraine 2006 and 2007 -- The United States.
The Origins of Dominant Parties
Author: Ora John ReuterPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107171768
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
This book asks why dominant political parties emerge in some authoritarian regimes, but not in others, focusing on Russia's experience under Putin.
Weak Strongman
Author: Timothy FryePublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691246289
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
"Media and public discussion tends to understand Russian politics as a direct reflection of Vladimir Putin's seeming omnipotence or Russia's unique history and culture. Yet Russia is remarkably similar to other autocracies -- and recognizing this illuminates the inherent limits to Putin's power. Weak Strongman challenges the conventional wisdom about Putin's Russia, highlighting the difficult trade-offs that confront the Kremlin on issues ranging from election fraud and repression to propaganda and foreign policy. Drawing on three decades of his own on-the-ground experience and research as well as insights from a new generation of social scientists that have received little attention outside academia, Timothy Frye reveals how much we overlook about today's Russia when we focus solely on Putin or Russian exceptionalism. Frye brings a new understanding to a host of crucial questions: How popular is Putin? Is Russian propaganda effective? Why are relations with the West so fraught? Can Russian cyber warriors really swing foreign elections? In answering these and other questions, Frye offers a highly accessible reassessment of Russian politics that highlights the challenges of governing Russia and the nature of modern autocracy. Rich in personal anecdotes and cutting-edge social science, Weak Strongman offers the best evidence available about how Russia actually works"--
Competitive Authoritarianism
Author: Steven LevitskyPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139491482
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Based on a detailed study of 35 cases in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and post-communist Eurasia, this book explores the fate of competitive authoritarian regimes between 1990 and 2008. It finds that where social, economic, and technocratic ties to the West were extensive, as in Eastern Europe and the Americas, the external cost of abuse led incumbents to cede power rather than crack down, which led to democratization. Where ties to the West were limited, external democratizing pressure was weaker and countries rarely democratized. In these cases, regime outcomes hinged on the character of state and ruling party organizations. Where incumbents possessed developed and cohesive coercive party structures, they could thwart opposition challenges, and competitive authoritarian regimes survived; where incumbents lacked such organizational tools, regimes were unstable but rarely democratized.
Russian Politics and Presidential Power
Author: Donald R. KelleyPublisher: CQ Press
ISBN: 1506354343
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Russian Politics and Presidential Power takes an in-depth look at the Russian presidency and uses it as a key to understanding Russian politics. Donald R. Kelley looks at presidents from Gorbachev to Putin as authoritarian, transformational leaders who set out to build the future, while sometimes rejecting and reinterpreting the work of past modernizers. Placing the presidency in this context helps readers understand both the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the nature of the Russian Federation that rose in its place. And by setting the presidency within a longer historical context, Kelley shows how the future of the presidency is dependent on other features of the political system.