Popular Choice and Managed Democracy: The Russian Elections of 1999 and 2000

ISBN-13: 9780815715351 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 304 str.

Timothy J. Colton; Michael McFaul

Opis

Twice in the winter of 1999-2000, citizens of the Russian Federation flocked to their neigbourhood voting stations and scratched their ballots in an atmosphere of uncertainty, rancor and fear. This book is a tale of these two elections - one for the 450-seat Duma, the other for president. cabinet instability, Russian voters unexpectedly supported the status quo. The elected lawmakers were prepared to co-operate with executive branch, a gift that had eluded President Boris Yeltsin since he imposed a post-Soviet constitution by referendum in 1993. When Yeltsin retired six months in advance of schedule, the presidential mantle went to Vladimir Putin - a career KGB officer who fused new and old ways of doing politics. Putin was easily elected president in his own right. country in whose stability, modernization and openness to the international community the West still has a huge stake.