LEADER 03498nam 22005652 450 001 9910345106203321 005 20151005020624.0 010 $a0-231-80110-6 010 $a0-511-81486-0 035 $a(CKB)2560000000091778 035 $a(MH)008744698-7 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000703402 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11410826 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000703402 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10690104 035 $a(PQKB)11420058 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9780511814860 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000091778 100 $a20101021d2001|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aRussian politics $echallenges of democratization /$fedited by Zoltan Barany, Robert G. Moser$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aCambridge :$cCambridge University Press,$d2001. 215 $a1 online resource (xiii, 260 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). 311 $a0-521-80512-0 311 $a0-521-80119-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aRussian 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. 330 $aWhat 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. 606 $aDemocracy$zRussia (Federation) 606 $aPost-communism$zRussia (Federation) 607 $aRussia (Federation)$xPolitics and government$y1991- 607 $aRussia (Federation)$xEconomic policy$y1991- 615 0$aDemocracy 615 0$aPost-communism 676 $a320.947 700 $aMendras$b Marie$01242113 702 $aBarany$b Zoltan D. 702 $aMoser$b Robert G.$f1966- 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910345106203321 996 $aRussian politics$92881174 997 $aUNINA 999 $aThis 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