Law and Power in Russia: Making Sense of Quasi-Legal Practices

ISBN-13: 9780367664435 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 228 str.

Håvard Bækken

Opis

This book explores selective law enforcement, arguing that manipulation of the legal system is a feature of Putinism, reflecting its hybrid authoritarianism and Russian legal culture. The book analyses selective law enforcement, the link between law and power, legal theories and political hybridity.

Spis treści

Part I: Law and Power in Russian Politics

Chapter 1. Law and power in authoritarian regimes. Research and perspectives

Chapter 2. The Russian legal tradition

Chapter 3. The creation of a new quasi-legal order

Chapter 4. The politico-legal duality of Putinism, Part II: Selective Law Enforcement in Theory and Practice

Chapter 5. Selective law enforcement as a mechanism enforcing informal rules

Chapter 6. Three issue areas of controversy

Chapter 7. A legal minefield: The role of laws in selective law enforcement

Chapter 8. Perceptions about political interference

Chapter 9. The impact of quasi-legal repression

Conlcluding Remarks.

O autorze

Håvard Bækken (b. 1983), obtained a PhD in Russian Area Studies from the University of Oslo (UiO) in 2014. Bækken has been working as a research fellow at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI) and guest researcher at the Norwegian University Centre in St. Petersburg and the EU–Russia Centre in Brussels. He has taught Russian politics and history at the Institute of Literature, Area-Studies, and European Languages (ILOS) at UiO, and Russian language at the Nansen Academy. Håvard Bækken has earlier publications on issues of law, power, and quasi-legal practices in Russia, as well as on resurgent state patriotism and ‘patriotic education’ in the same country.