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Building an Authoritarian Polity
Graeme Gill
其他書名
Russia in Post-Soviet Times
出版
Cambridge University Press
, 2015-11-12
主題
Political Science / Political Ideologies / Democracy
Political Science / Constitutions
Political Science / World / General
Political Science / Political Ideologies / Fascism & Totalitarianism
Political Science / World / Russian & Soviet
ISBN
1107130085
9781107130081
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=wtnECgAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
Graeme Gill shows why post-Soviet Russia has failed to achieve the democratic outcome widely expected at the time of the fall of the Soviet Union, instead emerging as an authoritarian polity. He argues that the decisions of dominant elites have been central to the construction of an authoritarian polity, and explains how this occurred in four areas of regime-building: the relationship with the populace, the manipulation of the electoral system, the internal structure of the regime itself, and the way the political elite has been stabilised. Instead of the common 'Yeltsin is a democrat, Putin an autocrat' paradigm, this book shows how Putin built upon the foundations that Yeltsin had laid. It offers a new framework for the study of an authoritarian political system, and is therefore relevant not just to Russia but to many other authoritarian polities.