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Political Consequences of Crony Capitalism inside Russia
2011,2010
Overview
This book examines the coexistence of crony capitalism and
traditionally democratic institutions such as political competition
and elections in Russia after the collapse of communism. The
combination, Gulnaz Sharafutdinova argues, has produced a distinct
pattern of political evolution in contemporary Russia. Elections
are meant to ensure government accountability and allow voters to
elect a government responsive to their needs, but in postcommunist
Russia the institutional forms of democracy did not result in the
expected outcomes. Instead, democratic institutions in the context
of crony capitalism-in which informal elite groups dominate policy
making, and preferential treatment from the state, not market
forces, is crucial to amassing and holding wealth-were widely
devalued and discredited.
As Sharafutdinova demonstrates, especially through her close
scrutiny of elections in two regions of Russia, Nizhnii Novgorod
and the Republic of Tatarstan, crony capitalism made elections
especially intense struggles among the elites. Massive amounts of
money flowed into campaigns to promote candidates by discrediting
their rivals, money purchased candidates and power, and elites
thereby solidified their control. As a result, the majority of
citizens perceived elections as the means for the elite to access
power and wealth rather than as expressions of public will. Through
her detailed case studies and her analyses of contemporary Russia
in general, Sharafutdinova argues persuasively that the turn toward
authoritarianism associated with Vladimir Putin and supported by a
majority of Russian citizens was a negative political response to
the interaction of electoral processes and crony capitalism.
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Subject
ISBN
9780268206680, 0268206686, 9780268041359, 0268041350, 9780268092764, 0268092761
