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Building an authoritarian polity : Russia in post-Soviet times
- Title
- Building an authoritarian polity : Russia in post-Soviet times / Graeme Gill.
- Author
- Gill, Graeme J.
- Publication
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
- Supplementary Content
- Cover image
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- Description
- ix, 230 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Graeme Gill shows why post-Soviet Russia has failed to achieve the democratic outcome widely expected at the time of the fall of the Soviet Union, instead emerging as an authoritarian polity. He argues that the decisions of dominant elites have been central to the construction of an authoritarian polity, and explains how this occurred in four areas of regime-building: the relationship with the populace, the manipulation of the electoral system, the internal structure of the regime itself, and the way the political elite has been stabilised. Instead of the common 'Yeltsin is a democrat, Putin an autocrat' paradigm, this book shows how Putin built upon the foundations that Yeltsin had laid. It offers a new framework for the study of an authoritarian political system, and is therefore relevant not just to Russia but to many other authoritarian polities"--
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- 1. Stability and authoritarian regimes; Part I. Structuring Public Political Activity: 2. Regime and society; 3. The party system and electoral politics; Part II. Structuring the Regime: 4. Structuring institutional power; 5. Elite stabilization; Conclusion: the Putin system and the potential for regime change.
- Call Number
- JFE 16-674
- ISBN
- 9781107130081
- 1107130085
- 9781107562424
- 1107562422
- LCCN
- 2015033484
- OCLC
- 914224426
- Author
- Gill, Graeme J., author.
- Title
- Building an authoritarian polity : Russia in post-Soviet times / Graeme Gill.
- Publisher
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Connect to:
- Chronological Term
- Since 1991
- Research Call Number
- JFE 16-674