J Paul Goode

The Decline of Regionalism in Putin's Russia

Boundary Issues

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book reassesses the process whereby after 2000 Putin reversed the process by which in the 1990s power had shifted from Moscow to the regions.a It focuses on the dynamics of regional boundaries: juridical boundaries, which defined a region's territorial extent and thereby its resources; institutional boundaries that sustained regional differences; and cultural boundaries that defined the ethnic or technocratic principles on which a region could claim legitimate existence.a The book shows how regional governors responded to Putin's reforms, attempting to deflect them not by outright resistance, but by mimicking at the regional level Putin's centralisation of power, a process which however made easier the homogenisation of regional political regimes and regional mergers.a The book demonstrates how the reordering of regions advanced sporasically, how pockets of resistance persist, and how the potential for the revival of regionalism continues.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Mai 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 517g
• ISBN-13: 9780415608077
• ISBN-10: 0415608074
• Artikelnr.: 31080636

Autorenporträt

J. Paul Goode is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Oklahoma, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The Puzzling Decline of Regionalism in Russia 2. Regions
Regionalism
and Regional Boundaries 3. A Brief History of Russia's Regional Boundaries 4. Putin's Federal Districts and Regional Identities 5. Constitutions
Charters
and Institutional Boundaries 6. The Push for Regional Enlargement 7. Assessing the Boundaries Approach to Regionalism