LEADER 04351nam 2200661Ia 450 001 9910827686803321 005 20240410154002.0 010 $a0-8157-0897-1 035 $a(CKB)111087027972496 035 $a(OCoLC)53795223 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10063913 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000240327 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12032354 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000240327 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10252442 035 $a(PQKB)11752227 035 $a(OCoLC)1132229682 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse73216 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3004431 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10063913 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3004431 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111087027972496 100 $a20041017d2003 my 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aRussia's road to deeper democracy$b[electronic resource] /$fTom Bjorkman 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aWashington, D.C. $cBrookings Institution Press$dc2003 215 $a1 online resource (155 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8157-0898-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aForeword -- Democracy: Russia's unfinished business -- Deeply rooted support for democratic values in Russia -- Shifting toward faster democratic development -- Creating a competitive political marketplace -- America's ability to make a difference. 330 $aRussia has embarked on a slow but steady path of foreign policy alignment with the West. President Vladimir Putin#65533;#65533;s market-oriented economic policies and structural reforms have added momentum. But in the long run, the decisive factor in Russia#65533;#65533;s relationship with the West will be the nature of the political order it builds on the ruins of communism. There is a broad consensus among Western observers that Russia#65533;#65533;s effort to build Western-style democratic institutions in the eleven years since the Soviet collapse has stalled somewhere between democracy as understood in the West and the highly authoritarian order Russia inherited from the USSR. Some would say that Russia is doomed by its history and political culture to a lengthy period of semi-authoritarianism. In Russia#65533;#65533;s Road to Deeper Democracy, Tom Bjorkman presents evidence that this assessment is too pessimistic and underestimates the forces for political change that lie beneath the surface of what seems to be an era of political somnolence. Bjorkman argues that it is not the weight of history or the antidemocratic attitudes of the Russian population that restrain Russia from making progress toward stronger democratic institutions but specific leadership policies and elements of Russia#65533;#65533;s political elite who have a self-interest in maintaining the status quo. Putin and other senior leaders#65533;#65533; support for proposals for democratic change now under discussion in Russia can create the kind of competitive political marketplace that the country needs to avoid political stagnation and begin to build the strong and prosperous state that all Russians want. America exerts a large influence on Russia#65533;#65533;s debate about its political future: by demonstrating that Russia#65533;#65533;s progress toward a stronger 330 8 $ademocratic order matters to the United States and by treating Russia as a part of the West, the United States can buttress internal forces pushing for a deeper Russian democracy. 606 $aDemocracy$zRussia (Federation) 606 $aDemocratization$zRussia (Federation) 606 $aElite (Social sciences)$zRussia (Federation) 606 $aPolitical leadership$zRussia (Federation) 607 $aRussia (Federation)$xPolitics and government$y1991- 607 $aUnited States$xForeign relations$zRussia (Federation) 607 $aRussia (Federation)$xForeign relations$zUnited States 615 0$aDemocracy 615 0$aDemocratization 615 0$aElite (Social sciences) 615 0$aPolitical leadership 676 $a320.947 700 $aBjorkman$b Tom$01674076 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910827686803321 996 $aRussia's road to deeper democracy$94038663 997 $aUNINA