Institutions, ideas and leadership in Russian politics /

"This book addresses the question: how, and to what degree, are political institutions important in explaining the state of post-Communist political systems today? More specifically, it analyses the nature of political leadership and explains how, and under what circumstances, ideas and identit...

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Other Authors: Newton, Julie M., 1961-, Tompson, William J.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Oxford : Palgrave Macmillan ; In association with St. Antony's College, 2010.
Series:St. Antony's series (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
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Table of Contents:
  • Explaining political and economic change in post-Soviet Russia / Julie Newton
  • Presidents and parties : leadership and institution-building in post-communist Russia / Thomas F. Remington
  • Russia's gubernatorial elections : a postmortem / J. Paul Goode
  • Back to the future? : Thoughts on the political economy of expanding state ownership in Russia / William Tompson
  • Shortcut to great power : Russia in pursuit of multipolarity / Julie Newton
  • The presence of absence : ethnicity policy in Russia / Peter Rutland
  • Political parties under Putin : party-system development and democracy / Kenneth Wilson
  • The rule-of-law factor / Jeffrey Kahn
  • Ukraine : improbable democratic nation-state, but possible democratic state-nation? / Alfred Stepan
  • Explaining European Union aid to Russia / Tomila Lankina.