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Author : Michael McFaul
Publisher : Hoover Press
ISBN 13 : 9780817995034
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (95 download)
Download or read book Russia's 1996 Presidential Election: The End of Polarized Politics written by Michael McFaul and published by Hoover Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Graeme Gill
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136641017
Total Pages : 730 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (366 download)
Download or read book Routledge Handbook of Russian Politics and Society written by Graeme Gill and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is an ever-burgeoning number of books analyzing the Russian experience, or aspects of it. This Handbook is the first single volume which gives both a broad survey of the literature as well as highlighting the cutting edge research in the area. Through both empirical data and theoretical investigation each chapter in the Routledge Handbook Russian of Politics and Society examines both the Russian experience and the existing literature, points to research trends, and identifies issues that remain to be resolved. Offering focused studies of the key elements of Russian social and political life, the book is organized into the following broad themes: General introduction Political institutions Political Economy Society Foreign Policy Politically, economically, and socially, Russia has one of the most interesting development trajectories of any major country. This Handbook seeks to answer questions about democratic transition, the relationship between the market and democracy, stability and authoritarian politics, the development of civil society, the role of crime and corruption, and the creation of a market economy. Providing a comprehensive resource for scholars and policy makers alike, this book is an important contribution to the study of Russian Studies, Eastern European studies, and International Relations.
Author : Zoltan D. Barany
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521805124
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Russian Politics written by Zoltan D. Barany and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-08-27 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What went wrong in Russia's decade-old post-communist transition? A group of leading young scholars answer this question by offering assessments of five crucial political arenas during the Yeltsin era: elections, executive-legislative relations, interactions between the central state and the regions, economic reforms, and civil-military relations. All of the contributors recognize that adverse historical legacies have complicated Russian democratization. They challenge structural explanations that emphasize constraints of the pre-existing system, however, and concentrate instead on the importance of elite decisions and institution-building. The authors agree that elites' failure to develop robust political institutions has been a central problem of Russia's post-communist transition. The weakness of the state and its institutions has contributed to a number of serious problems threatening democratic consolidation. These include the tensions between the executive and the legislature, the frail infrastructure for successful market reform, and the absence of proper civilian control over the armed forces.
Author : Joel M. Ostrow
Publisher : CQ Press
ISBN 13 : 1608716503
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (87 download)
Download or read book Politics In Russia: A Reader written by Joel M. Ostrow and published by CQ Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive reader composed of landmark selections, guided by the insight that to understand contemporary Russia, students need to know that there are strongly competing interpretations of Russian politics, both past and present.
Author : Joshua A. Tucker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521856607
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (566 download)
Download or read book Regional Economic Voting written by Joshua A. Tucker and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-01-09 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study demonstrates that in a time of massive change characterized by the emergence of entirely new political systems and a fundamental reorganization of economic life, systematic patterns of economic conditions affecting election results at the aggregate level can in fact be identified during the first decade of post-communist elections in five post-communist countries: Russia, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic. A variety of theoretical arguments concerning the conditions in which these effects are more or less likely to be present are also proposed and tested. Analysis is conducted using an original data set of regional level economic, demographic, and electoral indicators, and features both broadly based comparative assessments of the findings across all twenty elections as well as more focused case study analyses of pairs of individual elections.
Author : N. Robinson
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0333977947
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (339 download)
Download or read book Institutions and Political Change in Russia written by N. Robinson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2000-01-27 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For a decade Russia has been building a new political order. This collection of essays offers a progress report on this effort, recording the projects for institutional reform, their successes and their many failures. Institutions covered include the presidency, the State Duma, regional government, the judiciary, the 'power ministries', the foreign policy and economic policy making establishments. Other chapters examine popular attitudes towards institutions and the crises of state-society relations in Russia.
Author : Regina Smyth
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781139448017
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (48 download)
Download or read book Candidate Strategies and Electoral Competition in the Russian Federation written by Regina Smyth and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-04-24 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early 1990s, competitive elections in the Russian Federation signaled the end of the authoritarian political system dominated by a single political party. More than ten years and many elections later, a single party led by Russian President Vladimir Putin threatens to end Russia's democratic experiment. Russia's experience with new elections is not unique but it does challenge existing theories of democratic consolidation by showing that competitive elections cannot guarantee successful democratic consolidation. This book explores the conditions under which electoral competition contributes to democratic development by examining impact of elections on democratic consolidation. The theoretic framework focuses on the construction of infrastructure that transforms competitive elections into mechanisms of democratic development and shows how candidates for national parliamentary office systematically chose electoral strategies that undermined Russia's democratic foundation and created the conditions for a new single party autocracy to emerge.
Author : Alex Danilovich
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351149660
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)
Download or read book Russian-Belarusian Integration written by Alex Danilovich and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Russian domestic politics has long been both labyrinthine and pragmatic, at once both inordinately complex and breathtakingly dynamic. The same can be said of Russia's foreign policy, in particular in relations with former Soviet republics. Any study of Russian foreign policy comes back to the intriguing question of why Russia, long perceived as an inveterate imperial power, would refuse to take back a handsome portion of its former empire - a portion that offers a bridge to Europe and an advantageous geostrategic position. Despite formal declarations, Russia has made little progress in achieving union with its ex-Soviet neighbour, Belarus. Linking Russia's foreign policy to its domestic politics, Alex Danilovich clarifies this paradox and explains why specific attempts to reunify Russia and Belarus failed, contrary to the desires of significant forces on both sides and to certain theory-based expectations.
Author : James M. Goldgeier
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 081579617X
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (157 download)
Download or read book Power and Purpose written by James M. Goldgeier and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2003-10-29 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Russia, once seen as America's greatest adversary, is now viewed by the United States as a potential partner. This book traces the evolution of American foreign policy toward the Soviet Union, and later Russia, during the tumultuous and uncertain period following the end of the cold war. It examines how American policymakers—particularly in the executive branch—coped with the opportunities and challenges presented by the new Russia. Drawing on extensive interviews with senior U.S. and Russian officials, the authors explain George H. W. Bush's response to the dramatic coup of August 1991 and the Soviet breakup several months later, examine Bill Clinton's efforts to assist Russia's transformation and integration, and analyze George W. Bush's policy toward Russia as September 11 and the war in Iraq transformed international politics. Throughout, the book focuses on the benefits and perils of America's efforts to promote democracy and markets in Russia as well as reorient Russia from security threat to security ally. Understanding how three U.S. administrations dealt with these critical policy questions is vital in assessing not only America's Russia policy, but also efforts that might help to transform and integrate other former adversaries in the future.
Author : Vladimir Gel'man
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739183621
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)
Download or read book Reexamining Economic and Political Reforms in Russia, 1985–2000 written by Vladimir Gel'man and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2014-06-25 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reexamining Economic and Political Reforms in Russia, 1985–2000: Generations, Ideas, and Changes analyzes the impact of generational changes and ideational changes on major political and economic reforms conducted in Russia during the late twentieth century. This book examines how the policy agenda was shaped by the ideas of the generations’ representatives for the “sixtiers” and “seventiers.” Representatives of the generation of “sixtiers” conducted reforms from 1985 to 1991 and invested major efforts in political liberalization but did not pay enough attention to economic reforms. On the other hand, the reformers from the generation of “seventiers,” who were in charge of policy making from 1991 to 1998, were genuinely oriented toward market building but rather insensitive to the democratization of the political regime. This book explores how these differences in ideational agendas produced inconsistent and controversial outcomes from both stages of reforms.
Author : Geoffrey Evans
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198296347
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (982 download)
Download or read book The End of Class Politics? written by Geoffrey Evans and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last few decades has seen a prolonged debate over the nature and importance of social class as a basis for ideology, class voting and class politics. The prevailing assumption is that, in western societies, class inequalities are no longer important in determining political behaviour. InThe End of Class Politics? leading scholars from the US, UK and Europe argue that the evidence on which the assumptions about the decline importance of class is based is unfounded. Instead, the book argues that the class basis of political competition has to some degree evolved, but not declined.Furthermore, the social basis of political competition and sweeping claims about the new politics of postindustrial society need to be re-examined.
Author : Vicki L. Hesli
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521816762
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (167 download)
Download or read book The 1999-2000 Elections in Russia written by Vicki L. Hesli and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-08-18 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sample Text
Author : Mark Schrad
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199755590
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)
Download or read book Vodka Politics written by Mark Schrad and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-03 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alcohol-and alcoholism-have long been prominent features in Russian life and culture. But as Mark Schrad vividly shows in Vodka Politics, it has also been central to Russian politics. Not simply a chronicle of drinking in Russia, this book shows how alcohol has been a key shaping force in Russian political history.
Author : Robert G. Moser
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN 13 : 9780822972235
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (722 download)
Download or read book Unexpected Outcomes written by Robert G. Moser and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2001-01-15 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can democratization be promoted by "getting the institutions right?" In Unexpected Outcomes, Robert G. Moser offers a compelling analysis of the extent to which institutions can be engineered to promote desired political outcomes. The introduction of democracy in Eastern Europe and the former USSR has enabled scholars to bring new perspectives to the debate about electoral systems. Russia is arguably the most important of the postcommunist states and its mixed electoral system provides an interesting controlled experiment for testing the impact of different electoral systems.Moser examines the effects of electoral systems on political parties and representation in Russia during the 1990s. Moser's study is not only a highly original contribution to our understanding of contemporary Russian politics, but also a significant step forward in the comparative study of electoral systems. Through his comprehensive empirical analysis of Russian elections, Moser provides the most detailed examination of a mixed electoral system to date. This system was introduced in Russia to encourage party formation and benefit reformist parties allied with President Yeltsin. However, the effects were contrary to what the creators of the system expected and also defied the most well-established hypotheses in electoral studies. Parties proliferated under both the PR and plurality halves of the election and patterns of women and minority representation ran counter to prevailing theory and international experience.With an epilogue that updates the study through the December 1999 elections, Unexpected Outcomes makes an important and timely contribution to the ongoing debate over the ability and inability of elites to fashion preferred political outcomes through institutional design.
Author : Mike Bowker
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317879236
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)
Download or read book Russia after the Cold War written by Mike Bowker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-17 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Russia after the Cold War the editors provide an accessible and comprehensive survey of the state of Russia at the end of the twentieth century, as it seeks to come to terms with its new status in the world community, the pressures and tensions arising from economic and social change and with the problems of ensuring a democratic future. Written by a specially commissioned team of internationally respected experts on contemporary Russia, Russia after the Cold War is ideally suited as a main text for introductory courses on modern Russia within a politics, Area Studies or combined social science degree. Contributors: Alexei Avtonomov, Edwin Bacon, John Berryman, Christoph Bluth, Michael Cox, Nadia Davidova, Mark Galeotti, James Hughes, Roger E. Kanet, Julie A. Lund, Nick Manning, Andrew Patmore, Anthony Phillips, Richard Sakwa, Peter Shearman, Mark Webber, Stephen Webber, Stephen White, Matthew Wyman.
Author : Susan Stewart
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135750599
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (357 download)
Download or read book Democracy Promotion and the 'Colour Revolutions' written by Susan Stewart and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reviews the interplay between domestic contexts and democracy promotion efforts in selected countries of the former Soviet Union and the Western Balkans. The idea behind the six case studies is twofold. In the three cases where ‘colour revolutions’ occurred (Serbia, Georgia, Ukraine), the authors explore the extent to which external democracy promoters adapted their strategies to respond to new domestic contexts. In the other three cases (Azerbaijan, Belarus, Russia) the authors investigate how the political leadership has reacted to ‘colour revolutions’ elsewhere and which consequences their reactions have had for democracy promotion. In all cases an assessment of democratization processes in the country is provided as a basis for drawing conclusions about the potential for domestic and foreign actors to promote democratic development. An introduction and conclusion embed the case studies in the existing literature on democracy promotion and generalize the findings across the countries studied. On the practical level, the volume offers suggestions for improving democracy promotion endeavours, proposing in particular a more balanced approach which goes beyond supporting specific individuals and organizations to include addressing the structural level. This book was published as a special issue of Democratization.
Author : Victoria Bonnell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 042997714X
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book Russia In The New Century written by Victoria Bonnell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-03-05 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What has happened to Russia since the collapse of communism in 1991 and where is the country going in the new century? Russia has escaped widespread social disorder or political collapse, but few observers would argue that the situation has stabilized. Seventeen distinguished scholars from the United States, Russia, and Europe analyze the institutions, social forces, and ideas that are transforming Russia and are, in turn, being transformed in Russia today. The first multidisciplinary assessment of the Yeltsin era, Russia in the New Century: Stability or Disorder? focuses on superpresidentialism, the Constitutional Court, the military, the virtual economy, the network society, organized crime, the new entrepreneurs, workers, survival networks, Russian political parties and nationalism, and the crisis in Dagestan. Thirteen essays and the editors' introduction offer new perspectives on Russia's prospects for stability and disorder in the twenty-first century.
