Russian Regions And Regionalism

Author : Anne Aldis,Graeme P. Herd
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2003-08-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135786670

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Russian Regions and Regionalism by Anne Aldis,Graeme P. Herd Pdf

The emergence of large regions within Russia as centres of gravity for political and international power, and the changing relationship between these emerging regions and the centre are critically important factors currently at work within Russia. This book examines the whole question of Russian regions and regionalism. It considers important themes related to regionalism, including demography, security, military themes and international relations, and looks at a wide range of particular regions as case studies. It discusses the extent to which regions have succeeded in establishing themselves as centres of power, and assesses the degree to which President Putin is succeeding in incorporating regions into a hierarchy of power in which the primacy of the centre is retained.

Author : Edith W. Clowes,Gisela Erbslöh,Ani Kokobobo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315513317

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Russia's Regional Identities by Edith W. Clowes,Gisela Erbslöh,Ani Kokobobo Pdf

Contemporary Russia is often viewed as a centralised regime based in Moscow, with dependent provinces, made subservient by Putin’s policies limiting regional autonomy. This book, however, demonstrates that beyond this largely political view, by looking at Russia’s regions more in cultural and social terms, a quite different picture emerges, of a Russia rich in variety, with different regional identities, cultures, traditions and memories. The book explores how identities are formed and rethought in contemporary Russia, and outlines the nature of particular regional identities, from Siberia and the Urals to southern Russia, from the Russian heartland to the non-Russian republics.

Author : J. Paul Goode
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2011-05-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136720727

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The Decline of Regionalism in Putin's Russia by J. Paul Goode Pdf

This book reassesses Putin's attempt to reverse the decentralization of power that characterised centre-regional relations in the 1990s, focusing on regional responses to Putin's federal reforms. It explains the decline of regionalism after 2000 in terms of the dynamics of regional boundaries, understood as the juridical boundaries which demarcate a region's territorial extent and its resources; institutional boundaries that sustain regional differences; and cultural boundaries that define the ethnic or technocratic principles on which a region could claim legitimate existence. The book questions the conventional wisdom regarding the success of Putin's regime. It shows how regional governors responded not by attempting to deflect the reforms with outright resistance, but by mimicking Putin's centralisation of power at the regional level. In turn, this facilitated the homogenisation of regional political regimes and regional mergers. The book demonstrates how the reordering of regions advanced sporadically, how pockets of resistance persist, and how the potential for the revival of regionalism continues.

Author : Peter J. Stavrakis,Joan DeBardeleben,Joseph Laurence Black,Jodi Koehn
Publisher : Woodrow Wilson Center Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1997-09-26
Category : History
ISBN : 0801856175

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Beyond the Monolith by Peter J. Stavrakis,Joan DeBardeleben,Joseph Laurence Black,Jodi Koehn Pdf

In the wake of the USSR's breakup, the eighty-nine constituent subjects of the Russian Federation emerged as political players, grasping power for local policies from a weakened central authority and electing the legislators who have altered the complexion of the central government. Beyond the Monolith examines the impact of Russia's emerging regionalism on the political, economic, and social transformation of the largest of the successor states of the Soviet Union. The authors explore significant variations between and similarities among different provinces; the development of federalism in Russia; the effectiveness of local government; the power relationships between the center and the regions; the differential impact of privatization outside Moscow and St. Petersburg; and the role of environmental, public health, and labor market factors in regional economies. Contributors are Cynthia Buckley, Carol Clark, Robert V. Daniels, Mark. G. Field, Alexander A. Galkin, Nail Midkhatovich Moukhariamov, Demosthenes James Peterson, Greg Poelzer, Don K. Rowney, Darrell Slider, and John F. Young.

Author : William M. Reisinger
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135122478

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Russia's Regions and Comparative Subnational Politics by William M. Reisinger Pdf

Subnational political units are growing in influence in national and international affairs, drawing increasing scholarly attention to politics beyond national capitals. In this book, leading Russian and Western political scientists contribute to debates in comparative politics by examining Russia’s subnational politics. Beginning with a chapter that reviews major debates in theory and method, this book continues to examine Russia’s 83 regions, exploring a wide range of topics including the nature and stability of authoritarian regimes, federal politics, political parties, ethnic conflict, governance and inequality in a comparative perspective. Providing both qualitative and quantitative data from 20 years of original research, the book draws on elite interaction, public opinion and the role of institutions regionally in the post-Soviet years. The regions vary on a number of theoretically interesting dimensions while their federal membership provides control for other dimensions that are challenging for globally comparative studies. The authors demonstrate the utility of subnational analyses and show how regional research can help answer a variety of political questions, providing evidence from Russia that can be used by specialists on other large countries or world regions in cross-national scholarship. Situated within broader theoretical and methodological political science debates, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of Russian politics, comparative politics, regionalism and subnational politics.

Author : G. Gill
Publisher : Springer
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2007-06-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230597280

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Politics in the Russian Regions by G. Gill Pdf

This volume analyzes the changing power relations in the Russian regions and in their relationship with the centre. It considers Russian federalism and the changes that Putin has introduced, and the distribution of power at the regional level. The result is a rich survey of the state of federal relations in Russia.

Author : William M. Reisinger,Bryon J Moraski
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780472130184

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The Regional Roots of Russia's Political Regime by William M. Reisinger,Bryon J Moraski Pdf

Insightful analysis of how regional politics shaped the executive branch's ability to retain power and govern under Yeltsin and Putin

Author : Peter Reddaway,Robert W. Orttung
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0742526461

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Dynamics of Russian Politics by Peter Reddaway,Robert W. Orttung Pdf

Who rules Russia? This question is generated by President Vladimir Putin's most ambitious reform program to date--his attempt since 2000 to reshape the Russian federation, centralize much of the power lost by the Kremlin to the eighty-nine regional governors during the 1990s, and strengthen his weak grip on Russia's institutions and political elite. In The Dynamics of Russian Politics Russian and Western authors from the fields of political science, economics, ethnology, law, and journalism examine the reform's impact on key areas of Russian life, including big business, law enforcement, corruption, political party development, health care, local government, small business, and ethnic relations. Volume I presents the historical context and an overview of the reforms, then tracks how Putin's plans were implemented and resisted across each of the seven new federal okrugs, or megaregions, into which he divided Russia. In particular, the authors analyze the goals and contrasting political styles of his seven commissars and how their often-concealed struggles with the more independent and determined governors played out. Volume II examines the impact of these reforms on Russia's main political institutions; the increasingly assertive business community; and the defense, police, and security ministries. It also analyzes how the reforms have affected such key policy areas as local government, health care, political party development, the battle against corruption, small business, ethnic relations, and the ongoing Chechen war. Together, the two volumes simultaneously reveal that Putin's successes have been much more limited and ambiguous than is widely believed in the West while offering detailed and nuanced answers to the difficult but crucial question: Who rules Russia?

Author : Helge Blakkisrud,Elana Wilson Rowe
Publisher : Springer
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319697901

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Russia's Turn to the East by Helge Blakkisrud,Elana Wilson Rowe Pdf

This book is open access under a CC BY license. This book explores if and how Russian policies towards the Far East region of the country – and East Asia more broadly – have changed since the onset of the Ukraine crisis and Russia’s annexation of Crimea. Following the 2014 annexation and the subsequent enactment of a sanctions regime against the country, the Kremlin has emphasized the eastern vector in its external relations. But to what extent has Russia’s 'pivot to the East' intensified or changed in nature – domestically and internationally – since the onset of the current crisis in relations with the West? Rather than taking the declared 'pivot' as a fact and exploring the consequences of it, the contributors to this volume explore whether a pivot has indeed happened or if what we see today is the continuation of longer-duration trends, concerns and ambitions.

Author : Cameron Ross
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-02-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317019992

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The Politics of Sub-National Authoritarianism in Russia by Cameron Ross Pdf

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.

Author : Mikhail A. Molchanov
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317140054

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Eurasian Regionalisms and Russian Foreign Policy by Mikhail A. Molchanov Pdf

Bridging foreign policy analysis and international political economy, this volume offers a new look at the problem of agency in comparative regional integration studies. It examines evolving regional integration projects in the Eurasian space, defined as the former Soviet Union countries and China, and the impact that Russian foreign policy has had on integration in the region. Mikhail Molchanov argues that new regionalism in Eurasia should be seen as a reactive response to contemporary challenges that these developing states face in the era of globalization. Regional integration in this part of the world treads the unknown waters and may not simply repeat the early steps in the evolution of the European Union. The question of a hegemonic leadership in particular, as exercised by a country that spearheads regional integration efforts, animates much of the discussion offered in the book. Moreover, Eurasian regionalisms are plural phenomena because of complementary and competing projects that engage the same, or partially overlapping, groups of countries. By combining foreign policy studies with an examination of the international political economy of regionalism in Eurasia the author furthers our understanding of new regionalism, both theoretically and empirically.

Author : Yoshiko M. Herrera
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Regionalism
ISBN : 9780521827362

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Imagined Economies by Yoshiko M. Herrera Pdf

Author : William Mark Reisinger
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780415629966

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Russia's Regions and Comparative Subnational Politics by William Mark Reisinger Pdf

Subnational political units are growing in influence in national and international affairs, drawing increasing scholarly attention to politics beyond national capitals. In this book, leading Russian and Western political scientists contribute to debates in comparative politics by examining Russia's subnational politics. Beginning with a chapter that reviews major debates in theory and method, this book continues to examine Russia's 83 regions, exploring a wide range of topics including the nature and stability of authoritarian regimes, federal politics, political parties, ethnic conflict, governance and inequality in a comparative perspective. Providing both qualitative and quantitative data from 20 years of original research, the book draws on elite interaction, public opinion and the role of institutions regionally in the post-Soviet years. The regions vary on a number of theoretically interesting dimensions while their federal membership provides control for other dimensions that are challenging for globally comparative studies. The authors demonstrate the utility of subnational analyses and show how regional research can help answer a variety of political questions, providing evidence from Russia that can be used by specialists on other large countries or world regions in cross-national scholarship. Situated within broader theoretical and methodological political science debates, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of Russian politics, comparative politics, regionalism and subnational politics.

Author : Ulrich Schmid,Oksana Myshlovska
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9637326634

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Regionalism without Regions by Ulrich Schmid,Oksana Myshlovska Pdf

This collective volume shows how Ukraine can best be understood through its regions and how the regions must be considered against the background of the nation. The overarching objective of the book is to challenge the dominance of the nation-state paradigm in the analyses of Ukraine by illustrating the interrelationship between national and regional dynamics of change. The authors—historians, sociologists, anthropologists, economists, literary critics and linguists from Ukraine, Poland, Switzerland, Germany and the USA—explicitly go beyond the perspective of an entity defined by traditional political borders and cultural, economic, historical or religious stereotypes. The research project that led to the composition of the book combined quantitative (statistical surveys conducted across Ukraine) and qualitative (in-depth interviews and focus-group discussion) methods. The authors came to the conclusion that regionalism as a defining phenomenon of Ukraine is more prominent than the regions themselves. This approach regards Ukraine as a construct in flux where different discourses intersect, concur and eventually merge through the lenses of various disciplines and methodologies.

Author : Vladimir Shlapentokh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429979958

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From Submission To Rebellion by Vladimir Shlapentokh Pdf

This book addresses the relationship between the center and its provinces—an important issue in any society—using Russia as a case study. It analyses the historical stages of Russia's past, with special focus on the post-Communist era.