03498nam 22005652 450 991034510620332120151005020624.00-231-80110-60-511-81486-0(CKB)2560000000091778(MH)008744698-7(SSID)ssj0000703402(PQKBManifestationID)11410826(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000703402(PQKBWorkID)10690104(PQKB)11420058(UkCbUP)CR9780511814860(EXLCZ)99256000000009177820101021d2001|||| uy| 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierRussian politics challenges of democratization /edited by Zoltan Barany, Robert G. Moser[electronic resource]Cambridge :Cambridge University Press,2001.1 online resource (xiii, 260 pages) digital, PDF file(s)Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).0-521-80512-0 0-521-80119-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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.DemocracyRussia (Federation)Post-communismRussia (Federation)Russia (Federation)Politics and government1991-Russia (Federation)Economic policy1991-DemocracyPost-communism320.947Mendras Marie1242113Barany Zoltan D.Moser Robert G.1966-UkCbUPUkCbUPBOOK9910345106203321Russian politics2881174UNINAThis Record contains information from the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others the Library of Congress