The Crisis Of Russian Democracy

Author : Richard Sakwa
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2010-12-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781139494915

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The Crisis of Russian Democracy by Richard Sakwa Pdf

The view that Russia has taken a decisive shift towards authoritarianism may be premature, but there is no doubt that its democracy is in crisis. In this original and dynamic analysis of the fundamental processes shaping contemporary Russian politics, Richard Sakwa applies a new model based on the concept of Russia as a dual state. Russia's constitutional state is challenged by an administrative regime that subverts the rule of law and genuine electoral competitiveness. This has created a situation of permanent stalemate: the country is unable to move towards genuine pluralist democracy but, equally, its shift towards full-scale authoritarianism is inhibited. Sakwa argues that the dual state could be transcended either by strengthening the democratic state or by the consolidation of the arbitrary power of the administrative system. The future of the country remains open.

Author : Valerie Sperling
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429981586

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Building The Russian State by Valerie Sperling Pdf

This study critically assesses the condition of Russia's political, economic, social, legal, and military institutions and questions the capacity of the institutions to perform the duties of a state in the modern world. Has the Russian state managed to lay the institutional groundwork for long-term stability and democratic governance? The consensus of the contributors to this book is grim. The courts have grown increasingly complex, but their ability to enhance and support democracy has remained limited. State economic institutions have been unable to collect taxes, pay government workers, fund the healthcare system, pay its soldiers, or retain value in its currency. Political mechanisms for resolving center-periphery conflicts remain ineffective, and Russia's political institutions seem less focused on serving public interests than on enriching the power of those in power.

Author : Zoltan D. Barany,Robert G. Moser
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2001-08-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0521805120

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

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 : Andrew M. Verner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN : 0691047731

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The Crisis of Russian Autocracy by Andrew M. Verner Pdf

Two men loom large in the waning days of the Russian empire: Lenin and Nicholas II--the former by force of his personality and ideas, the latter by virtue of his inherited dominion over one-sixth of the earth. Yet, although the victor has commanded scholarly attention commensurate with his historical importance, the loser has not. Nicholas was the linchpin of the autocratic system, but his key role has been largely ignored except for some dismissive or hagiographic treatments. Andrew Verner redresses this neglect by providing both a fascinating psychological biography of the ruler and a probing analysis of his part in the revolutionary crisis of 1905. The drama of 1905, described by Lenin as the dress rehearsal for 1917, compelled Nicholas to make unprecedented concessions: a national legislature and political liberties that, as one historical school would have it, opened the door for constitutional democracy in Russia. Drawing extensively on unpublished documents and diaries found in the Romanov family and government archives in the USSR, this provocative work traces the formation of Nicholas's character amidst the conflicting theories and practices of autocracy. Verner demonstrates how autocratic ideology and structure interacted with the tsar's personality as he responded, or failed to respond, to the revolutionary storm, forever dooming Russia's constitutional promise.

Author : Ruslan Khasbulatov
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134871674

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The Struggle for Russia by Ruslan Khasbulatov Pdf

Ruslan Khasbulatov has played a central role in the dramatic changes in Russia over the last three years. He became Acting Speaker of the Russian parliament in July 1991 and helped to defend the Russian White House during the coup attempt of that August. He has since consolidated his influence in the Parliament, and has become one of the country's most powerful and controversial politicians. In this book, Khasbulatov presents his views on Russian politics before the coup, offers a vivid first-hand account of the resistance to the coup, and concludes with his views on the problem of power in the new Russia. He provides a unique insight into the development of Russia from communism to embryonic democracy and an unparalleled insider's account of some of the most momentous events of the late twentieth century.

Author : Nikolai Biryukov,Victor Sergeyev
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429756603

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Russian Politics in Transition by Nikolai Biryukov,Victor Sergeyev Pdf

First published in 1997 and written by two distinguished Russian scholars, this book examines the problems and prospects of democratic transition in Russia since the disintegration of the Soviet Union. Specifically, it offers a compelling evaluation of the rise and fall of the 1990 Russian parliament. The problems of transforming what had been a regional assembly into a national parliament are analysed in the context of the failure of perestroika, the difficulties of generating pluralist politics, the strength of presidential power and the tensions between ideologies of reform, on the one hand, and the realities of economic crisis, on the other. The analysis allows them to evaluate the role of political upheaval and conflicts of legitimacy in Russian democratization. The book is divided into three sections. The first offers a theory of transition to modern democracy. This provides the framework for the second section, an account of the first parliament after the 1990 elections, its conflicts with presidential power and the reform agenda of the government and, finally, its fall. The third section examines three particular problems which were decisive in producing the crisis of Russian parliamentarianism and democratization: voting behaviour in a non-party parliamentary setting and its relationship to conflicts between legislature and executive; populism and representation; and the role of democratic values and procedures in the legislative process. Drawing on their unrivalled knowledge of issues, events and actors, Nikolai Biryukov and Victor Sergeyev gather and interpret much new evidence to explore their subject. In a path-breaking study, the authors draw on a variety of sources and traditions to produce an original theory of the problems of political stability set up by democratic transition in Russia.

Author : Adam Przeworski
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781107053397

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Democracy in a Russian Mirror by Adam Przeworski Pdf

This book examines the current state and the prospects for democracy in Russia in the light of the experience of existing democracies. Posing several challenges to our understanding of democracy, thirteen contributors argue some of the central questions vital to understanding the conditions of emergence and survival of successful democracies.

Author : Sudhir Kumar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9380177666

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Comparative Politics and Crisis of Governance by Sudhir Kumar Pdf

Democracy as a political system, its creation and evolution and implications on the people and the states has been the dominant subject matter of the comparative politics in the last five decades. The litmus test of such explanations has been the societies undergoing political transition, switching over from authoritarian political systems to democratic ones. This book is an attempt to critically analyze the theories which have come up in the case of post-Soviet states political transition began after the collapse of the Soviet Union. The book argues that democratization should be seen as a broader phenomenon with the objective of building an equal and just social order. Secondly, the dilemma of explaining democracy in theory and in practice can be better explained with the analysis of the nature of state i.e. who governs and how. Thirdly, the nature of any state should be measured on the principles of democratic governance. Here three major indicators of democratic governance have been selected: participation, transparency, and accountability. Analysing Russia within this research framework the book argues that despite having all the capabilities to be a strong state the Russian state has been facing acute crisis of governance being reflected in violent separatist movements, violation of constitutional laws and increasing crime rate. A major reason behind the crisis of governance in Russia is the lack of application of principles of democratic governance at various levels of transition: from the constitution making process to implementation of welfare and other public policies."

Author : William C. Martel,Theodore C. Hailes
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1998-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780788146640

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Russia's Democratic Moment? by William C. Martel,Theodore C. Hailes Pdf

Contents: democratic reform of government and politics (is Russian democratic reform vital to the U.S.? toward democratic government in Russia, and in the Ukraine); democratic reform of economy and society (impediments to free-market economy in Russia; Russia's banking and financial crisis; Russia's black market; economic assistance to Russia; managing reform in Russia's defense industries: conversion and arms sales); democratic reform of military and foreign policy (the democratic transition of Russia's military; transformation of Ukraine's military; managing the evolution of Russia's military; Russia and the CIS).

Author : Richard Sakwa
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107160606

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Russia Against the Rest by Richard Sakwa Pdf

This book examines how Putin's Russia emerged as one of the great powers, demanding recognition of its status in international politics.

Author : Nicolai N. Petro
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 0674750012

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The Rebirth of Russian Democracy by Nicolai N. Petro Pdf

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Author : Andrei P. Tsygankov
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199336210

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The Strong State in Russia by Andrei P. Tsygankov Pdf

Tsygankov provides a succinct account of the major periods in evolution of Russia's strong state construct by reviewing the external and internal contexts of its emergence, progression, and fall in Muscovy, St. Petersburg, Soviet Union, and post-Soviet Russia with an emphasis on the last two decades. Each time a combination of these contexts was distinct thereby producing different political outcomes in Russia. The book argues that a perspective on Russia from a Western viewpoint is limited and that there has been an alternative way of thinking about the nation and its problems.

Author : Victor Sergeyev
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 178254349X

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Russia's Road to Democracy by Victor Sergeyev Pdf

Russian democracy in the post-totalitarian era is intimately bound up with the fate of its representative institutions. In Russia's Road to Democracy, Victor Sergeyev and Nikolai Biryukov assess why the Congress of People's Deputies, and the other newly elected institutions founded under perestroika, not only failed to prevent, but also seemed to speed up and provoke, the disintegration of the Soviet Union. By studying the early history of the Congress, the book seeks insights on the prospects for democracy in Russia. Following an inquiry into the roots of Soviet political culture and the implications for future representative institutions, the book then examines the genesis of the Congress of People's Deputies and attempts a hermeneutical reconstruction of the deputies' models of social reality, as expressed in the texts of their parliamentary debates. The authors argue that the adoption of the concept of sobornost - a belief in society's organic unity - as the basic model for this institution proved utterly inadequate to the challenges the country faced. Including substantial new source material which is being made available in English for the first time, Russia's Road to Democracy presents an in-depth analysis with conclusions that contradict the hitherto prevailing theoretical assumptions.

Author : United States. Congress. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105062675728

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The Chechen Crisis and Its Implications for Russian Democracy by United States. Congress. Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe Pdf

Author : Richard Sakwa
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780857724373

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Frontline Ukraine by Richard Sakwa Pdf

The unfolding crisis in Ukraine has brought the world to the brink of a new Cold War. As Russia and Ukraine tussle for Crimea and the eastern regions, relations between Putin and the West have reached an all-time low. How did we get here? Richard Sakwa here unpicks the context of conflicted Ukrainian identity and of Russo-Ukrainian relations and traces the path to the recent disturbances through the events which have forced Ukraine, a country internally divided between East and West, to choose between closer union with Europe or its historic ties with Russia. In providing the first full account of the ongoing crisis, Sakwa analyses the origins and significance of the Euromaidan Protests, examines the controversial Russian military intervention and annexation of Crimea, reveals the extent of the catastrophe of the MH17 disaster and looks at possible ways forward following the October 2014 parliamentary elections. In doing so, he explains the origins, developments and global significance of the internal and external battle for Ukraine.With all eyes focused on the region, Sakwa unravels the myths and misunderstandings of the situation, providing an essential and highly readable account of the struggle for Europe's contested borderlands.