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Institutions, ideas and leadership in Russian politics / edited by Julie Newton, William Tompson

Published
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan ; Oxford : In association with St. Antony's College, 2010.
Physical Description
xi, 250 pages ; 23 cm.
Additional Creators
Newton, Julie M., 1961- and Tompson, William J.

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Contents
Explaining political and economic change in post-Soviet Russia / Julie Newton -- Presidents and parties : leadership and institution-building in post-communist Russia / Thomas F. Remington -- Russia's gubernatorial elections : a postmortem / J. Paul Goode -- Back to the future? : Thoughts on the political economy of expanding state ownership in Russia / William Tompson -- Shortcut to great power : Russia in pursuit of multipolarity / Julie Newton -- The presence of absence : ethnicity policy in Russia / Peter Rutland -- Political parties under Putin : party-system development and democracy / Kenneth Wilson -- The rule-of-law factor / Jeffrey Kahn -- Ukraine : improbable democratic nation-state, but possible democratic state-nation? / Alfred Stepan -- Explaining European Union aid to Russia / Tomila Lankina.
Summary
"This book addresses the question: how, and to what degree, are political institutions important in explaining the state of post-Communist political systems today? More specifically, it analyses the nature of political leadership and explains how, and under what circumstances, ideas and identity have influenced post-Soviet political change"--
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ISBN
9780230551473 (hardback)
0230551475 (hardback)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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