Political Elites and the New Russia: The Power Basis of Yeltsin's and Putin's Regimes

ISBN-13: 9781138362901 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 224 str.

Anton Steen

Opis

An analysis of the role of elites under Yeltsin and Putin, dicussing how far they form a coherent politcal culture, and if this culture has been in step with, or at odds with, the reform policies of the Kremlin leadership.

Spis treści

1. Russian elites and the parallel transformations  2. Defining and surveying elites  3. Regime-legitimacy and political stability 4. Democracy Russian style  5. Between the state and the market  6. Integration in a decentralised federation  7. What matters for the elite's orientations?  8. Decision-making cultures  9. The network state  10.The elites and the emerging Russian state

O autorze

Anton Steen is Professor of Political Science at the University of Oslo. He has written extensively on elites and democratisation in the Baltic States and is currently engaged in a project on elites and state-transformation in Russia.