Building an authoritarian polity : Russia in post-Soviet times
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Building an authoritarian polity : Russia in post-Soviet times
Cambridge University Press, 2015
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- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 212-225) and index
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Description
Graeme Gill shows why post-Soviet Russia has failed to achieve the democratic outcome widely expected at the time of the fall of the Soviet Union, instead emerging as an authoritarian polity. He argues that the decisions of dominant elites have been central to the construction of an authoritarian polity, and explains how this occurred in four areas of regime-building: the relationship with the populace, the manipulation of the electoral system, the internal structure of the regime itself, and the way the political elite has been stabilised. Instead of the common 'Yeltsin is a democrat, Putin an autocrat' paradigm, this book shows how Putin built upon the foundations that Yeltsin had laid. It offers a new framework for the study of an authoritarian political system, and is therefore relevant not just to Russia but to many other authoritarian polities.
Table of Contents
- 1. Stability and authoritarian regimes
- Part I. Structuring Public Political Activity: 2. Regime and society
- 3. The party system and electoral politics
- Part II. Structuring the Regime: 4. Structuring institutional power
- 5. Elite stabilization
- Conclusion: the Putin system and the potential for regime change.
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