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The New Autocracy - Information, Politics, and Policy in Putin's Russia (Paperback)
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The New Autocracy - Information, Politics, and Policy in Putin's Russia (Paperback)
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Corruption, fake news, and the "informational autocracy" sustaining
Putin in power After fading into the background for many years
following the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia suddenly has
emerged as a new threat-at least in the minds of many Westerners.
But Western assumptions about Russia, and in particular about
political decision-making in Russia, tend to be out of date or just
plain wrong. Under the leadership of Vladimir Putin since 2000,
Russia is neither a somewhat reduced version of the Soviet Union
nor a classic police state. Corruption is prevalent at all levels
of government and business, but Russia's leaders pursue broader and
more complex goals than one would expect in a typical kleptocracy,
such as those in many developing countries. Nor does Russia fit the
standard political science model of a "competitive authoritarian"
regime; its parliament, political parties, and other political
bodies are neither fakes to fool the West nor forums for bargaining
among the elites. The result of a two-year collaboration between
top Russian experts and Western political scholars, Autocracy
explores the complex roles of Russia's presidency, security
services, parliament, media and other actors. The authors argue
that Putin has created an "informational autocracy," which relies
more on media manipulation than on the comprehensive repression of
traditional dictatorships. The fake news, hackers, and trolls that
featured in Russia's foreign policy during the 2016 U.S.
presidential election are also favored tools of Putin's domestic
regime-along with internet restrictions, state television, and
copious in-house surveys. While these tactics have been successful
in the short run, the regime that depends on them already shows
signs of age: over-centralization, a narrowing of information
flows, and a reliance on informal fixers to bypass the bureaucracy.
The regime's challenge will be to continue to block social
modernization without undermining the leadership's own
capabilities.
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