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Record Nr.

UNINA9910345106203321

Autore

Mendras Marie

Titolo

Russian politics : challenges of democratization / / edited by Zoltan Barany, Robert G. Moser [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2001

ISBN

0-231-80110-6

0-511-81486-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 260 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

320.947

Soggetti

Democracy - Russia (Federation)

Post-communism - Russia (Federation)

Russia (Federation) Politics and government 1991-

Russia (Federation) Economic policy 1991-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Russian electoral trends / Michael McFaul -- Executive-legislative relations in Russia, 1991-1999 / Robert G. Moser -- The Russian central state in crisis: center and periphery in the post-Soviet era / Kathryn Stoner-Weiss -- Russian economic reform, 1991-1999 / Yoshiko M. Herrera -- Politics and the Russian armed forces / Zoltan Barany.

Sommario/riassunto

What went wrong in Russia's decade-old post-communist transition? A group of leading young scholars answer this question by offering assessments of five crucial political arenas during the Yeltsin era: elections, executive-legislative relations, interactions between the central state and the regions, economic reforms, and civil-military relations. All of the contributors recognize that adverse historical legacies have complicated Russian democratization. They challenge structural explanations that emphasize constraints of the pre-existing system, however, and concentrate instead on the importance of elite decisions and institution-building. The authors agree that elites' failure to develop robust political institutions has been a central problem of Russia's post-communist transition. The weakness of the state and its institutions has contributed to a number of serious problems



threatening democratic consolidation. These include the tensions between the executive and the legislature, the frail infrastructure for successful market reform, and the absence of proper civilian control over the armed forces.