Håvard Bækken

Law and Power in Russia

Making Sense of Quasi-Legal Practices

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explores selective law enforcement, arguing that manipulation of the legal system is a feature of Putinism, reflecting its hybrid authoritarianism and Russian legal culture. The book analyses selective law enforcement, the link between law and power, legal theories and political hybridity.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 238
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 513g
• ISBN-13: 9781138570887
• ISBN-10: 1138570885
• Artikelnr.: 54769234

Autorenporträt

Håvard Bækken (b. 1983), obtained a PhD in Russian Area Studies from the University of Oslo (UiO) in 2014. Bækken has been working as a research fellow at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI) and guest researcher at the Norwegian University Centre in St. Petersburg and the EU-Russia Centre in Brussels. He has taught Russian politics and history at the Institute of Literature, Area-Studies, and European Languages (ILOS) at UiO, and Russian language at the Nansen Academy. Håvard Bækken has earlier publications on issues of law, power, and quasi-legal practices in Russia, as well as on resurgent state patriotism and 'patriotic education' in the same country.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Law and Power in Russian Politics
Chapter 1. Law and power in authoritarian regimes. Research and
perspectives
Chapter 2. The Russian legal tradition
Chapter 3. The creation of a new quasi-legal order
Chapter 4. The politico-legal duality of Putinism, Part II: Selective Law
Enforcement in Theory and Practice
Chapter 5. Selective law enforcement as a mechanism enforcing informal
rules
Chapter 6. Three issue areas of controversy
Chapter 7. A legal minefield: The role of laws in selective law enforcement
Chapter 8. Perceptions about political interference
Chapter 9. The impact of quasi-legal repression
Conlcluding Remarks.