Leading Russia

Putin in Perspective: Essays in Honour of Archie Brown
Erscheinungsjahr 2005
ISBN: 978-0-19-927614-1
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 646 g

Leaders and leadership continue to dominate Russia's political development. Like his predecessors in the Kremlin, Vladimir Putin has made a crucial impact on the substance and style of Russian politics. His efforts to use traditional tools of state power to manage democracy and market capitalism have had mixed effects on both.

Leading Russia investigates the ambiguities and contradictions of Putin's rule from four perspectives. The volume first considers his leadership in the context of Russia's convulsive historical cycle of revolutionary transformation, breakdown, consolidation, and stagnation. The study then analyses how normative and institutional components of democracy have fared under Putin's regime of stronger executive control. It proceeds to examine the strengths and weaknesses of presidential power vis-à-vis bureaucratic, regional, and corporate groups. The volume concludes with two assessments of the strategic direction in which Putin is taking Russia. They explore the tensions between bureaucratic-authoritarian trends and Putin's apparent commitment to electoral democracy, market capitalism, and alignment with the West.

The book helps to deepen our understanding of the cultural and institutional factors shaping Putin's leadership approach and policy priorities. More widely, it sheds light on the complexity of the relationship between post-communist leadership, democracy, and economic modernization.

Zielgruppe

Scholars and students of Politics, Russian Studies, East European Studies, Transitional Economies, and Contemporary History, especially those with an interest in Vladimir Putin and his role in Russia's political development

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pravda, Alex

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Biographien & Autobiographien: Historisch, Politisch, Militärisch
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Politische Führung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Staats- und Regierungsformen, Staatslehre
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Marxismus, Kommunismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 1: Alex Pravda: Archie Brown

- 2: Alex Pravda: Introduction: Putin in Perspective

- 3: George Breslauer: Regimes of Political Consolidation: The Putin Presidency in Soviet and Post-Soviet Perspective

- 4: Robert Service: Soviet Political Leadership and 'Sovietological' Modelling

- 5: Leslie Holmes: Russian Corruption and State Weakness in Comparative Post-Communist Perspective

- 6: Timothy J. Colton: Putin and the Attenuation of Russian Democracy

- 7: Paul Chaisty: Majority Control and Executive Dominance: Parliament-President Relations in Putin's Russia

- 8: Stephen Whitefield: Putin's Popularity and its Implications for Democracy in Russia

- 9: Eugene Huskey: Putin as Patron: Cadres Policy in the Russian Transition

- 10: William Tompson: Putin and the 'Oligarchs': A Two-Sided Commitment Problem

- 11: Neil Melvin: Putin's Reform of the Russian Federation

- 12: Lilia Shevtsova: Vladimir Putin's Political Choice: Towards Bureaucratic Authoritarianism

- 13: Andrei Grachev: Putin's Foreign Policy Choices

- An Annotated Bibliography of Published Work by Archie Brown

Über Autor(innen)

Edited by Alex Pravda, Director of the Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre, St Antony's College, Oxford