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TEXTBOOK

Contemporary Russian Politics
A Reader

Edited by Archie Brown

Price: £25.99 (paper)
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-829999-8
Publication date: 29 March 2001
590 pages, 8 line illus, 246x189 mm
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Reviews
  • 'This is a carefully winnowed collection of some of the best articles - Western and Russian - from the second half of the decade ... the selection of the articles and their grouping into twelve sections was a rigorous process. ...The book's aim is to give students of Russian politics easy access to a wide range of material that might otherwise have escaped their attention. In this it succeeds admirably ... Moreover, Archie Brown's introduction to the volume and to each section, as well as his concluding chapter, would make a worthwhile book in themselves.' International Affairs, Oct 2001' -
  • ''This is an excellent reader bringing together papers from a wide variety of sources. It will be widely used by teachers and students of contemporary Russian politics.' THES, November 2001' -
  • ''As a collection of key, previously published articles and specially commissioned chapters, Brown creates an extremely comprehensive and expertly detailed book. Many of the previously published articles come from notable Russian journals that would otherwise not be accessible to English-speaking readers....This book should indeed furnish the shelves of any student of Russian politics....It is, very probably, the most comprehensive and the most educative book on Russian politics currently on the market.'Jen Tracy, former reporter for the 'Moscow Times' and special issues editor of the online journal 'Transitions Online.'' -
  • ''Students of Russia's transition have received the solid and comprehensive reader they have long been waiting for, thanks to the outstanding efforts of Archie Brown... If Russian policymakers charting the course of further transition were to make this volume their reader, they would certainly save the country a lot of trouble.' Journal of Peace Research' -
  • ''In itself Brown's volume is clearly one of the most comprehensive and high-quality volumes available for the classroom today.' Mark A. Cichock, Political Studies, Vol 50 No. 4' -

Description
  • A unique Reader which brings together outstanding published work on Russian politics with 15 new articles specially written for this collection
  • Editorial introductions to every section (totalling 25,000 words) provide the student with essential background information, detailing the historical development, contemporary relevance, and current debates for each topic area and each individual chapter
  • The most comprehensive book on Russian politics - covering institutional design, elections, parties, federalism, regional politics, presidency and legislature, economic reform and economic interests, foreign policy, public opinion, the mass media, and prospects for democracy
  • Forty chapters by expert contributors of whom one-third are Russians; each article has been carefully edited to ensure the book is student-focused throughout
  • Analysis of major recent developments, including the Duma election of 1999, the Presidential election of 2000, and the institutional changes launched by President Putin
The only Reader on post-Soviet Russian politics, this important book brings together the best published work from a wide variety of sources. Unusually for a Reader, it also includes many up-to-date, specially commissioned contributions. Some forty of the world's leading specialists on Russian politics, a third of them Russians, cover institutional design, elections, parties, federalism, regional politics, presidency and legislature, economic reform and economic interests, foreign policy, public opinion, the mass media, and prospects for democracy.

Substantial editorial introductions to every section provide the student with essential background information, detailing the historical development, contemporary relevance, and current debates for each topic area and each individual chapter. The chapters themselves have been carefully selected and edited to be as useful and relevant as possible to all students of contemporary Russian politics,

With analysis of major recent developments, including the Duma election of 1999, the Presidential election of 2000, and the institutional changes launched by President Putin, this is the most comprehensive and authoritative guide to political institutions and processes in Putin's Russia.

Readership: A comprehensive guide for all students of Russian Politics

Contents
General Introduction
Institutional Design
Introduction , Archie Brown
1. The Tactical Origins of Russia's New Political Institutions , Igor Klyamkin and Lilia Shevtsova
2. Re-examining Russia: Institutions and Incentives , Peter Ordershook
3. Democracy and Institutional Design in Russia , Eugene Huskey
4. Institutional design, Uncertainty, and Path Dependency during Transitions: Cases for Russia , Michael McFaul
The Presidency and Political Leadership
Introduction , Archie Brown
5. Sifting Through the Rubble of the Yeltsin Years , John B. Dunlop
6. Boris Yeltsin as Patriarch , George Breslauer
7. Overcoming the Yeltsin Legacy: Vladimir Putin and Russian Institutional Reform , Eugene Huskey
The Legislature and the Law
8. Legislative Politics in Russia , Paul Chaisty
9. Parliament and the Presidency , Eugene Huskey
10. Rewriting the Rules of the Game in Russia , Kathryn Hendley
11. The Russian Mafia: Between Hype and Reality , Peter Rutland and Natasha Kogan
Elections and the Electoral System
Introduction , Archie Brown
12. The 1999 and 2000 Elections in Russia: Continuity and Change? , Yitzak Brudny
13. The Iceberg of Russian Political Finance , Vladimir Gelman
14. The Impact of Parliamentary Electoral Systems in Russia , Robert G. Moser
Problems of Party Formation and Consolidation
15. The Emerging Structure of Partisan Divisions in Russian Politics , Stephen Whitefield and Geoffrey Evans
16. National Parties in Russia's Regions , Darrell Slider
17. How Floating Parties Frustrate Democratic Accountability: A Supply-Side View of Russia's Elections , Richard Rose
Economic Reform: Politics, Interests, and Social Consequences
Introduction , Archie Brown
18. Winners Take All: The Politics of Partial Reform in Postcommunist Transitions , Joel Hellman
19. The Oligarchical Model , Sergey Peregudov
20. Russia's Phoney Capitalism , Grigory Yavlinsky
21. The Russian F-Connection: Finance, Firms, Friends, Families, and Favorites , Natalia Dinello
22. Economic Interests and Political Power in Post-Soviet Russia , Nodari Simonia
Public Opinion, Political Beliefs, and the Mass Media
23. Living in an Antimodern Society , Richard Rose
24. Modernization as a Value of the Russian Elite , Oksana Gaman-Golutvina
25. Chelovek Lukavyy: Dvoemyslie Po-rossiyski [The Cunning Person: Doublethink Russian Style] , Yury Lavada
26. Political Bias and Self-Censorship in the Russian Media , Laura Belin
Russian Statehood and the National Question
Introduction , Archie Brown
27. State Building and the State Breakdown in Russia , Gail Lapidus
28. Forging the Nation , Vera Tolz
29. Russia's Identity Crisis , Ronald Suny
Federalism, Regionalism, and Local Government
Introduction , Archie Brown
30. What is the New Russian Federalsim? , Jeff Kahn
31. The Political Economy of Russian Federalism: A Framework for Analysis , Steven Solnick
32. Political Power and Political Stability in the Russian Regions , Natalya Lapina and Alla Chirikova
33. Local Government and Ethnic and Social Activism in Russia , Tomila Lankina
Russia and the World
Introduction , Archie Brown
34. Post-Soviet Russian Foreign Policy , Margot Light
35. Inside Moscow's Kosovo Muddle , Oleg Levitin
36. Who's Minding the State? The Failure of Russian Security Police , Stephen J. Blank
The Russian Transition in Comparative Perspective
Introduction , Archie Brown
37. Extracts from Debate between Valerie Bunce, Philippe Schmitter and Terry Karl
38. Russian Studies Without Russia , Stephen F. Cohen
39. Problems of the Russian Transition , Igor Klyamkin and Lilia Shevtsova
40. Regime Transition, Uncertainty and Prospects for Democratisation: The Politics of Russia's Regions in Comparative Perspective , Vladimir Gel'man
Assessing Russia's Democratization
Introduction , Archie Brown
41. The Ravages of 'Market Bolshevism' , Dmitri Glinsky and Peter Reddaway
42. Russian Democracy: Progress and Problems , William Smirnov
43. Electoral Democracy or Electoral Clanism? Russian Democratization and Theories of Transition , Alexander Lukin
44. Is Russia Becoming a Democracy? , Archie Brown

Authors, editors, and contributors


Edited by Archie Brown, Director, Russian and East European Centre, St Antony's College, Oxford; Professor of Politics, Oxford University


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