Graeme Gill

Building an Authoritarian Polity

Russia in Post-Soviet Times

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Produktbeschreibung

Argues that post-Soviet Russia was never on a democratic trajectory because dominant elites always fostered the building of an authoritarian polity.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: European Community
• Seitenzahl: 238
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 155mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 463g
• ISBN-13: 9781107130081
• ISBN-10: 1107130085
• Artikelnr.: 42803564

Autorenporträt

Graeme Gill is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Government and International Relations at the University of Sydney. He specialises in Soviet and Russian politics and has published nineteen books and more than eighty papers in this area, including Symbolism and Regime Change in Russia (Cambridge, 2013) and Symbols and Legitimacy in Soviet Politics (Cambridge, 2011).

Inhaltsangabe

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.