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- Summary
- Russia today represents one of the major examples of the phenomenon of "electoral authoritarianism" which is characterized by adopting the trappings of democratic institutions (such as elections, political parties, and a legislature) and enlisting the service of the country's essentially authoritarian rulers. Why and how has the electoral authoritarian regime been consolidated in Russia? What are the mechanisms of its maintenance, and what is its likely future course? This book attempts to answer these basic questions. Vladimir Gel'man examines regime change in Russia from the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 to the present day, systematically presenting theoretical and comparative perspectives of the factors that affected regime changes and the authoritarian drift of the country. After the fall of the Soviet Union, Russia's national political elites aimed to achieve their goals by creating and enforcing of favorable "rules of the game" for themselves and maintaining informal winning coalitions of cliques around individual rulers. In the 1990s, these moves were only partially successful given the weakness of the Russian state and troubled post-socialist economy. In the 2000s, however, Vladimir Putin rescued the system thanks to the combination of economic growth and the revival of the state capacity he was able to implement by imposing a series of non-democratic reforms. In the 2010s, changing conditions in the country have presented new risks and challenges for the Putin regime that will play themselves out in the years to come.
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- Pitt series in Russian and East European studies
- Uniform Title
- Authoritarian Russia (Online)
- Series in Russian and East European studies.
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- Authoritarian Russia (Online)
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- Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE.
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- Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-200) and index.
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- Contents
- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Regime changes in Russia : the road of disillusionment -- Russia's flight from freedom : why? -- The roaring 1990s : conflicts and compromises -- The (in)famous 2000s : imposed consensus -- The unpredictable 2010s : rising challenges -- The agenda for tomorrow.
- OCLC
- ssj0001526224
- Author
Gelʹman, Vladimir, 1965-
- Title
Authoritarian Russia [electronic resource] : Analyzing Post-Soviet Regime Changes / Vladimir Gelʹman.
- Imprint
Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2015 (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2015] (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
- Series
Pitt series in Russian and East European studies
Series in Russian and East European studies.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-200) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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Print version: 082296368X 9780822963684