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Building an authoritarian polity : Russia in post-Soviet times

Gill, Graeme J., author

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\"Graeme Gill shows why post-Soviet Russia has failed to achieve the democratic outcome widely expected at the time of the fall of the Soviet Union, instead emerging as an authoritarian polity. He argues that the decisions of dominant elites have been central to the construction of an authoritarian polity, and explains how this occurred in four areas of regime-building: the relationship with the populace, the manipulation of the electoral system, the internal structure of the regime itself, and the way the political elite has been stabilised. Instead of the common 'Yeltsin is a democrat, Putin an autocrat' paradigm, this book shows how Putin built upon the foundations that Yeltsin had laid. It offers a new framework for the study of an authoritarian political system, and is therefore relevant not just to Russia but to many other authoritarian polities\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Subject: Authoritarianism Russia (Federation) / Elite (Social sciences) Political activity Russia (Federation) / Elections Corrupt practices Russia (Federation) / Russia (Federation) Politics and government 1991-
• ISBN: 9781107130081, 1107130085, 9781107562424, 1107562422

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
JN6695.G549 2015	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE