CANDIDATE STRATEGIES AND ELECTORAL - Democracy Without Foundation

Klappentext This book explores the conditions under which electoral competition contributes to democratic development in the Russian Federation. Zusammenfassung In the early 1990s! competitive elections in the Russian Federation signaled the end of the authoritarian political system dominated by a single political party. More than ten years and many elections later! a single party led by Russian President Vladimir Putin threatens to end Russia's democratic experiment. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Elections and the development of democratic capacity; 2. One step forward, two steps back: Russia's failed consolidation in comparative context; 3. The micro-foundations of democratic responsiveness: candidate strategies and electoral infrastructure; 4. Many candidates, few choices; 5. To join or not to join: candidate affiliation in transitional Russia; 6. Finding fit: candidates and their districts; 7. Campaigning for the Duma: mixed markets, mixed messages; 8. Democrats, democratic transitions, and Russian democracy.

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• Authors: Regina Smyth, Regina (Pennsylvania State University) Smyth, Smyth Regina
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.07.2012
• EAN: 9781107404823
• ISBN: 978-1-107-40482-3
• No. of pages: 260
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Comparati; Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Russia, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, Political structures: democracy, Elections & referenda, Elections and referenda / suffrage, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Russian & Soviet, Political structures / systems: democracy