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Subversive Institutions in Russia

(Journal Article) This article in Communist and Post-Communist Studies presents an analysis of “informal institutionalization” in post-Communist Russia in theoretical and comparative perspective. It is devoted to critical analysis of existing…

Institutional Trap in Russian Politics: Still No Way Out?

In the 2000s, Russia’s political structure demonstrated a trajectory of decay across major institutions of state, politics, and governance. Despite the fact that numerous negative assessments of Russia’s institutional development…

United Russia: Ruling Party or Emperor’s New Clothes?

After a bloody conflict in October 1993 between Russian president Boris Yeltsin and the Parliament, Russia’s elites recognized the need for strong parliamentary support of the federal executive. However, the nonpartisan nature…

Free but Unfair? The Problems of Electoral Governance in Russia

Democracy, as one political scientist noted, is a political regime in which rulers lose their offices because of electoral defeat. This is not the case in Russia; elections have not become,…

The Extinction of Political Opposition in Russia

In the classic 1966 volume Political Oppositions in Western Democracies by Robert A. Dahl, the chapter on France in the early years of the Fifth Republic is titled “France: Nothing but…

The Rise and Fall of Federal Reform in Russia

In May 2000, during the very first days of his presidency, Vladimir Putin announced his plans for federal reform as the crucial step toward strengthening the Russian state under the…

The Dictatorship of Law in Russia: Neither Dictatorship, Nor Rule of Law

During the course of the 2000 presidential campaign, Vladimir Putin announced the idea of a "dictatorship of law" as a core part of his presidency. His pre-electoral message and state…

The Eve of Electoral Threshold: New Challenges in Russian Politics

The ongoing cycle of Russia's national elections–parliamentary elections scheduled for December 19, 1999, and presidential elections, which should be held July 9, 2000 according to the constitution- represent a threshold…

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