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The Politics of Sub-National Authoritarianism in Russia (Hardcover, New Ed)
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The Politics of Sub-National Authoritarianism in Russia (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: Post-Soviet Politics
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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.
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