Institutions, Ideas and Leadership in Russian Politics

1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-1-349-36232-5
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 250 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 337 g

Reihe: St Antony's Series

A stimulating and thought-provoking collection that challenges some of the emerging conventional wisdom about contemporary Russia. It examines the role of leadership, institutions and ideas, and the interactions among them, in shaping Russia's post-Soviet transformation.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tompson, William

Newton, Julie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Institutions, Ideas, and Leadership in Post-Soviet Russia; J.Newton Presidents and Parties: Leadership and Institution-Building in Post-Communist Russia; T.F.Remington Russia's Gubernatorial Elections: A Post-Mortem; J.P.Goode Back to the Future? Thoughts on the Political Economy of Expanding State Ownership in Russia; W.Tompson Shortcut to Great Power: Russia in Pursuit of Multipolarity; J.Newton The Presence of Absence: Ethnicity Policy in Russia; P. Rutland Political Parties Under Putin: Party-System Development and Democracy; K.Wilson The Rule-of-Law Factor; J.Kahn Ukraine: Improbable Democratic 'nation-State' but Possible Democratic 'State-Nation'?; A.Stepan Explaining European Union Aid to Russia; T.Lankina

Über Autor(innen)

J. PAUL GOODE Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Oklahoma, USA
TOMILA LANKINA Senior Research Fellow and Lecturer at De Montfort University, UK
THOMAS F. REMINGTON Goodrich C. White Professor of Political Science at Emory University, USA
PETER RUTLAND Colin and Nancy Campbell Professor in Global Issues and Democratic Thought at Wesleyan University, USA
ALFRED STEPAN Wallace Sayre Professor of Government at the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University, USA
KENNETH WILSON Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science, Dongguk University, Seoul, South Korea.