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The Origins of Dominant Parties: Building Authoritarian Institutions in Post-Soviet Russia
Europe-Asia Studies. 2018. Vol. 70. No. 9. P. 1518-1519.
Ben Noble
Review of Ora John Reuter's book, 'The Origins of of Dominant Parties: Building Authoritarian Institutions in Post-Soviet Russia'.
Priority areas:
state and public administration
Language:
English
Burkhardt F., Post-Soviet Affairs 2017 Vol. 33 No. 6 P. 472-495
What role do formal institutions play in the consolidation of authoritarian regimes such as the Russian Federation? Oftentimes, it is assumed that autocrats, usually potent presidents, wield informal powers and control far-flung patron–client networks that undermine formal institutions and bolster their rule. After the institutional turn in authoritarianism studies, elections, parties, legislatures, or courts have ...
Added: October 1, 2018
Hassanpour N., / academia.edu. Series PS "Comparative Politics". 2016.
Why did the Russian experiment with electoral democracy fail in the early Twentieth century? I examine the results of the elections to the first Duma in 1906 on the province (Guberniya) level in conjunction with the socioeconomic data from the 1897 national census, in order to show that at the onset of the first Duma ...
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Petrov N., Russian Politics and Law 2016 Vol. 54 P. 74-95
The accelerated integration of Crimea into Russia's state system illuminates the overall sociopolitical process in Russia. The process was largely improved, with various agencies each pursuing its own course of action. Some were formed on the basis of existing Ukrainian institutions, while others were created de novo. In some cases, locals were given senior positions, ...
Added: March 14, 2017
Gilev A., Dimke D., Europe-Asia Studies 2021 Vol. 73 No. 6 P. 1060-1079
How does centralisation affect public goods provision in Russian municipalities? Drawing on the evidence
from 68 interviews with municipal elites in four Russian regions, we demonstrate that, first, centralisation
through excessive regulation encourages the provision of a higher quantity of public goods but does not
encourage their quality. Short time horizons and haste lower the quality of goods ...
Added: August 18, 2021
Sakwa R., Hale H., White S., L. : Macmillan, 2018
The 9th iteration of this go-to textbook on contemporary Russian politics offers comprehensive and critical discussion of the country’s most recent developments, providing substantive coverage of the key areas in domestic and foreign Russian politics. Ranging from established topics such as executive leadership, parties and elections, to newer issues of national identity, protest, and Russia ...
Added: November 7, 2018
Prokofiev V. N., Право и государство: теория и практика 2018 № 3 С. 107-113
The author gives a legal treatment of effect of the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation on political parties' activities in the article. The current status of this subsidiary body affiliated to the Head of State is clarified here. The influence of the top-level officials of the Presidential Executive Office and its key Directorates ...
Added: December 9, 2018
Diesen G. E., L. : Routledge, 2017
Moscow has progressively replaced geopolitics with geoeconomics as power is recognised to derive from the state’s ability to establish a privileged position in strategic markets and transportation corridors. The objective is to bridge the vast Eurasian continent to reposition Russia from the periphery of Europe and Asia to the centre of a new constellation. Moscow’s ...
Added: October 2, 2018
Burkhardt F., Libman A., Russian Politics 2018 Vol. 3 No. 2 P. 239-259
The paper investigates the link between the sub-national variation of political regimes in a (at the federal level) non-democratic country and the appointments of federal officials in the sub-national provinces. In particular, we look at the appointment of the chief federal inspectors to the regions in Putin’s Russia in 2000–2012. Our main research question is ...
Added: October 1, 2018
Grigoriev I., Социология власти 2016 № 3 С. 34-45
In this response I briefly overview the theory of Court-Secretariat relations formulated in my previous paper (Sotsiologiya vlasti 2, 2015). I also review the criticism by Blokhin by answering some of his critiques and refining my own arguments where necessary. Most importantly, based on the quantitative analysis of the Russian Constitutional Court decisions I reconsider ...
Added: February 23, 2017
Prokofiev V. N., Конституционное и муниципальное право 2018 № 4 С. 28-32
Author describes the concept and category of “Extended president”, its structure and the role of political block (based on theory of prototypes) in the article. The Russian political parties’ status and condition are analyzed in terms of domestic model of presidentalism. The author provides insight into the role of executive office of RF President as ...
Added: May 22, 2018
Starodubtsev A., СПб. : Издательство Европейского университета в Санкт-Петербурге, 2014
Что определяет стратегии региональной политики, реализуемой российскими властями? Могут ли федеральные политики, распределяя финансовые потоки, закрыть глаза на необходимость обеспечения наилучших электоральных результатов в регионах страны? Ответу на эти вопросы посвящена книга, демонстрирующая результаты исследования факторов реализации региональной политики в России на протяжении 1990–2000-х годов.
Книга адресована всем, кто интересуется проблемами политической науки в целом и современной российской политики в частности. ...
Added: July 5, 2014
Голосов Г. В., Grigoriev I., Политическая наука 2015 № 1 С. 128-156
The paper analyzes the dynamics of party system nationalization in Russia. The analysis registers a salient discrepancy between the extremely low levels of territorial homogeneity of the vote in the single-member plurality section of Russia’s electoral system (1993–2003), on the one hand, and very high levels of party nationalization in party-list contests, on the other ...
Added: December 8, 2014
Grigoriev I., Полития: Анализ. Хроника. Прогноз 2015 Т. 76 № 1 С. 140-152
The article explores the relation between the labour reform conducted in Russia in 2000-2001, and the subsequent transformation of Russian political regime. It tests the authoritarian modernization argument which posits that the more comfortable conditions of autocracy would often allow the government to pursue unpopular reforms, and shows that the sequence may as well be ...
Added: October 25, 2014
Ben Noble, The Journal of Legislative Studies 2019 Vol. 25 No. 1 P. 143-147
Recent work has noted the supposedly ‘exceptional’ constitutional authority of sub-national legislatures in Mexico to introduce legislative initiatives into the national congress. Rather than a mechanism unique to Mexico, however, this debate article notes other states’ constitutions with similar provisions, drawing on data from the Comparative Constitutions Project, as well as a new dataset on ...
Added: March 28, 2019
Kynev A., Reports of European Union Institute for Security Studies 2012 No. 11, February 2012
Статья анализирует особенности российской партийной и избирательной системы, сложивщиеся к 2011, описывает основных игроков кампании по выборам Госдумы 2011 и их фактическую роль в политической системе, результаты данной кампании. ...
Added: November 12, 2014
Degtyarev A. A., Ilyin M., Melville A. Y. et al., М. : Проспект, 2011
Учебник ориентирован на мировой опыт и традиции политической науки и политологического образования, новаторский и оригинальный характер которого состоит прежде всего в многоуровневой структуре материала. Помимо основного текста учебник включает интерпретации, фактологические сведения, цитаты из классической и новейшей литературы, обширный банк научных биографий видных представителей социально-политической мысли, определения ключевых понятий. Учебник позволяет получить объемное и целостное ...
Added: April 12, 2013
Gaivoronsky Y., Communist and Post-Communist Studies 2019 Vol. 52 No. 4 P. 323-330
The article attempts to identify major factors of the nationalization of the vote in contemporary Russia using the two level approach: the between- and within-region. The former compares regions as units of analysis while the latter additionally takes into account voting in municipalities to obtain levels of voting homogeneity within the regions. The study uses ...
Added: December 9, 2016
Grigoriev I., Социология власти 2015 Т. 27 № 2 С. 66-93
The paper deals with the role secretariats play in providing information to their courts. Judges delegate selecting good petitions to their clerks. We illustrate this simple model with the cases of the US Supreme court and German Federal Constitutional court and show that while delegating judges prefer to minimize information losses due to agent’s discretion. ...
Added: August 24, 2015
Reuter O. J., Post-Soviet Affairs 2013 Vol. 29 No. 2 P. 101-135
A political scientist examines how regional elites shape the electoral fortunes of Russia’s hegemonic party, United Russia (UR). Using original data on regional legislative elections from 2003 to 2011, we show that UR performs better in those regions where regional governors control strong political machines. Russia’s leadership undercut its own electoral strategy by replacing
popular elected ...
Added: June 7, 2013
Andrey Starodubtsev, Abingdon : Routledge, 2018
How do Russian leaders balance the need to decentralize governance in a socially and politically complex country with the need to guarantee political control of the state?
Since the early 2000’s Russian federal authorities have arranged a system of political control on regional elites and their leaders providing a ‘police control’ of special bodies subordinated by ...
Added: October 22, 2017
Reuter O. J., Armstrong D., Robertson G., Post-Soviet Affairs 2020 Vol. 36 No. 1 P. 1-19
It is widely recognized that unified oppositions present a bigger threat to dictators than divided oppositions. In this paper, we use micro-level data on opposition protests in Putin-era Russia to examine the factors that facilitate co-operation among different opposition forces. In particular, we focus on what leads so-called systemic opposition parties – those who have ...
Added: December 4, 2020
Shkel S., Бедерсон В. Д., Семенов А. В. et al., Социологическое обозрение 2019 Т. 18 № 4 С. 74-106
At present, the direct election of municipal heads has been canceled in most Russian regions, which practically completed the integration of municipalities into single, top-down model of governance. These institutional reforms caused changes in the factors determining the development and management effectiveness of municipalities. We have conducted a comparative analysis of six urban districts in ...
Added: September 2, 2020
Starodubtsev A., Gel'man V., Europe-Asia Studies 2016 Vol. 68 No. 1 P. 97-117
Added: April 26, 2017
Burkhardt F., Kluge J., Osteuropa 2018 Vol. 68 No. 10-12 P. 175-187
Ownership rights in Russia have not been secured since the authoritarian regime in the country brought the judicial system under its control. Entrepreneurs have developed various strategies in order to avoid losing their property. During the 1990s, they voiced their interests through business associations, whereas during the 2000s, they sought protection through international commercial and ...
Added: November 19, 2018