Building an Authoritarian Polity
Russia in Post-Soviet Times
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Product details:
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 12 November 2015
- ISBN 9781107562424
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages238 pages
- Size 229x152x13 mm
- Weight 350 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 13 tables 0
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Short description:
Argues that post-Soviet Russia was never on a democratic trajectory because dominant elites always fostered the building of an authoritarian polity.
MoreLong 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.
'Theoretically informed and based on the author's intimate knowledge of post-Soviet politics, Graeme Gill's Building an Authoritarian Polity is bound to shape debates over the nature of the regime that is emerging under Putin as well as broader discussions in comparative politics.' M. Steven Fish, University of California, Berkeley
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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