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Russian Politics in Transition - Institutional Conflict in a Nascent Democracy (Hardcover)
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Russian Politics in Transition - Institutional Conflict in a Nascent Democracy (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Revivals
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First published in 1997 and written by two distinguished Russian
scholars, this book examines the problems and prospects of
democratic transition in Russia since the disintegration of the
Soviet Union. Specifically, it offers a compelling evaluation of
the rise and fall of the 1990 Russian parliament. The problems of
transforming what had been a regional assembly into a national
parliament are analysed in the context of the failure of
perestroika, the difficulties of generating pluralist politics, the
strength of presidential power and the tensions between ideologies
of reform, on the one hand, and the realities of economic crisis,
on the other. The analysis allows them to evaluate the role of
political upheaval and conflicts of legitimacy in Russian
democratization. The book is divided into three sections. The first
offers a theory of transition to modern democracy. This provides
the framework for the second section, an account of the first
parliament after the 1990 elections, its conflicts with
presidential power and the reform agenda of the government and,
finally, its fall. The third section examines three particular
problems which were decisive in producing the crisis of Russian
parliamentarianism and democratization: voting behaviour in a
non-party parliamentary setting and its relationship to conflicts
between legislature and executive; populism and representation; and
the role of democratic values and procedures in the legislative
process. Drawing on their unrivalled knowledge of issues, events
and actors, Nikolai Biryukov and Victor Sergeyev gather and
interpret much new evidence to explore their subject. In a
path-breaking study, the authors draw on a variety of sources and
traditions to produce an original theory of the problems of
political stability set up by democratic transition in Russia.
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