Cameron Ross

The Politics of Sub-National Authoritarianism in Russia

Herausgeber: Gel'Man, Vladimir

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Produktbeschreibung

By the end of the 2000s Russia had become an increasingly authoritarian state, which was characterised by the following features: outrageously unfair and fraudulent elections, the existence of weak and impotent political parties, a heavily censored (often self-censored) media, weak rubber-stamping legislatures at the national and sub-national levels, politically subordinated courts, the arbitrary use of the economic powers of the state, and widespread corruption. However, this picture would be incomplete without taking into account the sub-national dimension of these subversive institutions and practices across the regions of the Russian Federation. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, sub-national political developments in Russia became highly diversified and the political map of Russia's regions became multi-faceted. The period of 2000s demonstrated a drive on the part of the Kremlin to re-centralise politics and governance to the demise of newly-emerging democratic institutions at both the national and sub-national levels. Yet, federalism and regionalism remain key elements of the research agenda in Russian politics, and the overall political map of Russia's regions is far from being monotonic. Rather, it is similar to a complex multi-piece puzzle, which can only be put together through skilful crafting. The 12 chapters in this collection are oriented towards the generation of more theoretically and empirically solid inferences and provide critical evaluations of the multiple deficiencies in Russia's sub-national authoritarianism, including: principal-agent problems in the relations between the layers of the 'power vertical', unresolved issues of regime legitimacy that have resulted from manipulative electoral practices, and the inefficient performance of regional and local governments. The volume brings together a team of international experts on Russian regional politics which includes top scholars from Britain, Canada, Russia and the USA.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. November 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 543g
• ISBN-13: 9780754678885
• ISBN-10: 0754678881
• Artikelnr.: 45000972

Autorenporträt

Vladimir Gel'man , Professor, Department of Political Science and Sociology, European University at St. Petersburg, Russia and Cameron Ross, Reader, Politics, School of Humanities, University of Dundee, UK

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Preface; The dynamics of sub-national authoritarianism: Russia in
comparative perspective, Vladimir Gel'man; The liberal and the
authoritarian: how different are Russian regions?, Rostislav Turovsky;
Regional democracy variations and the forgotten legacies of Western
engagement, Tomila Lankina; Regional changes and changing regional
relations with the centre, William M. Reisinger and Byron J. Moraski; The
transition to managerial patronage in Russia's regions, Joan DeBardeleben
and Mikhail Zherebtsov; NGOs and politics in Russian regions, Elena
Belokurova; Pluralism, (un)civil society, and authoritarianism in Russia's
regions, Christopher Marsh; Party politics in the Russian regions:
competition of interest groups under the guises of parties, Alexander
Kynev; Electoral practices at the sub-national level in contemporary
Russia, Petr Panov; Sub-national elections and the development of
semi-authoritarian regimes, Cameron Ross; Redistributing sovereignty and
property under Putin: a view from resource-rich republics of the Russian
Federation, Gulnaz Sharafutdinova; State-business relations in Russia's
regions; Natalia Zubarevich; Index.