Federalism And Democratization In Post Communist Russia

Author : Cameron Ross
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0719058708

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Federalism and Democratization in Post-Communist Russia by Cameron Ross Pdf

This book provides a comparative analysis of the electoral systems, party systems and governmental systems in the ethnic republics and regions of Russia and their impact on democratization and federalism, moving the focus of research from the national level to the vitally important processes of institution building and democratization at the local level and to the study of federalism in Russia.

Author : Irina Busygina,Mikhail Filippov
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000998801

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Non-Democratic Federalism and Decentralization in Post-Soviet States by Irina Busygina,Mikhail Filippov Pdf

This book challenges the common perception of authoritarian regimes as incompatible with federalism and decentralization. It examines how the leaders of Russia, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan have managed to exploit federalism and decentralization as useful instruments to help them preserve control, avoid political instability, and to shift blame to the regional authorities in times of crises and policy failures. The authors explain how post-Soviet authoritarian regimes balance the advantages and risks and emphasize the contradictory role of external influences and threats to the institutional design of federalism and decentralization. Advancing our understanding of how the institutions of federalism and decentralization are skillfully constrained, but at the same time used by authoritarian incumbents, they show that federalism and decentralization matter in non-democracies, though the nondemocratic character of the political systems greatly modifies their effects. The authors show the implication of the COVID-19 crisis and current Russian war against Ukraine for the center-regional relations in Russia, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of post-Soviet politics, decentralization, federalism, and modern authoritarianism.

Author : Jeffrey Kahn
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2002-06-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780191529962

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Federalism, Democratization, and the Rule of Law in Russia by Jeffrey Kahn Pdf

Combining the approaches of three fields of scholarship - political science, law and Russian area- tudies - the author explores the foundations and future of the Russian Federation. Russia's political elite have struggled to build an extraordinarily complex federal system, one that incorporates eighty-nine different units and scores of different ethnic groups, which sometimes harbor long histories of resentment against Russian imperial and Soviet legacies. This book examines the public debates, official documents and political deals that built Russia's federal house on very unsteady foundations, often out of the ideological, conceptual and physical rubble of the ancien régime. One of the major goals of this book is, where appropriate, to bring together the insights of comparative law and comparative politics in the study of the development of Russia's attempts to create - as its constitution states in the very first article - a 'Democratic, federal, rule-of-law state'

Author : Timothy J. Colton,Stephen Holmes
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 0742539423

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The State After Communism by Timothy J. Colton,Stephen Holmes Pdf

After the fall of communism in Russia, most observers took for granted that the structures of the new democratic state would be effective agents of the popular will. This assumption was overly optimistic. Eleven respected contributors examine governance in post-Soviet Russia in comparative context, investigating the roots, characteristics, and consequences of the crisis as a whole and its manifestations in the specific realms of tax collection, statistics, federalism, social policy, regulation of the banks, currency exchange, energy policy, and parliamentary oversight of the bureaucracy.

Author : Cameron Ross,Adrian Campbell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2008-10-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134075577

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Federalism and Local Politics in Russia by Cameron Ross,Adrian Campbell Pdf

This book examines federalism and regional and local politics in Russia. Many commentators have alluded to the unique nature of Russia's dual transition and its difficult task of simultaneously reforming its economy and polity. But there is in fact a third transition under way in Russia that is of no less importance, the need to reconfigure central-local relations and to create a stable and viable form of federalism. Federal states are much more difficult to set up than unitary ones, and forging a new federal system at the same time as privatising the economy and trying to radically overhaul the political system has clearly made Russia's transition triply difficult. The book discusses how Vladimir Putin has re-asserted the power of the centre in Russia, and tightened the federal government's control of the regions. It shows how, contrary to his rhetoric about developing Russia as a free and democratic state, authoritarianism has been extended - through his reorganisation of the Federation Council, his usurpation of powers to dismiss regional assemblies and chief executives, and his creation of seven unelected super-governors. The book explores a wide range of issues related to these developments, including a comparative study of Russian federalism and local politics, ethnic federalism, the merging of federal units, regional governors, electoral and party reforms, and regional and local politics. It also includes case studies of local and regional politics in specific regions.

Author : Harry Eckstein
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015047120210

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Can Democracy Take Root in Post-Soviet Russia? by Harry Eckstein Pdf

Exploring the dynamics of state-society relations in post-Soviet Russia, noted scholars examine the nature of authority patterns within and between state and society. The authors explain congruence theory and employ it to interpret contemporary Russian politics. With its strong theoretical orientation, this pathbreaking volume raises new issues in the study of post-communist politics and, from the unifying perspective of congruence theory, provides a range of views on these hotly contested issues.

Author : Anastassia V. Obydenkova,Alexander Libman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317595144

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Causes and Consequences of Democratization by Anastassia V. Obydenkova,Alexander Libman Pdf

In recent decades, the regions of Russia have taken different paths of regime transition. Despite the consolidation of an autocratic regime at national level and the centralization steered by Vladimir Putin’s government, the variation across sub-national regimes persists. Using an innovative theoretical framework, this book explores both causes and consequences of democratization in the regions of Russia. It is the first study in the field to systematically integrate structural and agency approaches in order to account for economic, social, historical and international causes of democratization and to trace its consequences. By focusing on the challenging and under-studied topic of sub-national regimes, the book provides a unique perspective on regime transition and the new theoretical framework contributes to a better understanding of democratization world-wide. The book will be of key interest to scholars and students of democratization, sub-national regimes, East European politics, comparative politics, post-communism, and international relations.

Author : Vladimir Gelʹman,Cameron Ross
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0754678881

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The Politics of Sub-national Authoritarianism in Russia by Vladimir Gelʹman,Cameron Ross Pdf

International experts on Russian regional politics, including top scholars from Britain, Canada, Russia and the USA, provide critical evaluations of the multiple deficiencies to be found 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.

Author : Zoltan D. Barany,Robert G. Moser
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2001-08-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0521805120

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Russian Politics by Zoltan D. Barany,Robert G. Moser Pdf

First published in 2001, this book assesses five crucial political arenas during the Yeltsin era.

Author : Yitzhak Brudny,Jonathan Frankel,Stefani Hoffman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2004-06-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781139454797

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Restructuring Post-Communist Russia by Yitzhak Brudny,Jonathan Frankel,Stefani Hoffman Pdf

Since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, the question of 'whither Russia?' has been the source of ceaseless speculation both at home and abroad. In search of answers, twelve highly qualified scholars examine the complex interplay between continuity and change that has marked developments in Russia under the leadership first of Boris Yeltsin and now of Vladimir Putin. Analsying the recent past, they also peer into the country's future. In his introduction to the volume Peter Rutland asks whether we are witnessing the gradual entrenchment of parliamentary democracy, the slow return to autocracy or mere political stagnation. Restructuring Post-Communist Russia poses the fundamental questions while providing the information and analysis needed to give the (at least, preliminary) answers.

Author : Miodrag Jovanović,Slobodan Samardžić
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Decentralization in government
ISBN : NYPL:33433083428460

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Federalism and Decentralisation in Eastern Europe by Miodrag Jovanović,Slobodan Samardžić Pdf

Author : Michael Kraus,Ron Liebowitz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000310559

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Russia And Eastern Europe After Communism by Michael Kraus,Ron Liebowitz Pdf

The conference on "Russia and East Europe in Transition," held at Middlebury College in May 1994 under the auspices of the Center for Russian and East European Studies, provided the impetus for this volume. The two-day gathering was made possible by a Title VI grant from the U.S. Department of Education and the Jessica Swift Endowed Lecture Fund of Middlebury College, for which we are most grateful. Apart from the contributors to this volume, the conference participants included: George Bellerose, Raymond E. Benson, Valery Chalidze, Michael Claudon, David Colander, Guntram H. Herb, Lars Lib, Tamar Mayer, Noah M.J. Pickus, Sunder Ramaswamy, David A. Rosenberg, and Mitchell Smith. Acting as discussants, panel chairs, or interested participants, their efforts, individually and collectively, have made this a better book and their contribution to this project is gratefully acknowledged.

Author : Vladimir Gel'man
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780822980933

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Authoritarian Russia by Vladimir Gel'man Pdf

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.

Author : Cameron Ross
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1526120763

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Federalism and democratisation in Russia by Cameron Ross Pdf

Author : Vladimir Gel'man
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 082296368X

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Authoritarian Russia by Vladimir Gel'man Pdf

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.