The politics of sub-national authoritarianism in Russia
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The politics of sub-national authoritarianism in Russia
(Post-Soviet politics / series editor, Neil Robinson)
Ashgate, c2010
- : hbk
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
- 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.
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