Håvard Bækken

Gebundenes Buch

Law and Power in Russia

Making Sense of Quasi-Legal Practices

Beschreibung

This book explores selective law enforcement, arguing that manipulation of the legal system is a feature of Putinism, reflecting its hybrid authoritarianism and Russian legal culture. The book analyses selective law enforcement, the link between law and power, legal theories and political hybridity.

Autor

Håvard Bækken (b. 1983), obtained a PhD in Russian Area Studies from the University of Oslo (UiO) in 2014. Bækken has been working as a research fellow at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI) and guest researcher at the Norwegian University Centre in St. Petersburg and the EU-Russia Centre in Brussels. He has taught Russian politics and history at the Institute of Literature, Area-Studies, and European Languages (ILOS) at UiO, and Russian language at the Nansen Academy. Håvard Bækken has earlier publications on issues of law, power, and quasi-legal practices in Russia, as well as on resurgent state patriotism and 'patriotic education' in the same country.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 238
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 526g
• ISBN-13: 9781138570887
• ISBN-10: 1138570885
• Artikelnr.: 54769234