Political Parties in the Russian Regions

Zusatztext 'A work of great empirical depth and thoroughness ... this pioneering book should be read by anybody working on Russian regional politics! Russian political parties and Russian democratization more generally.' - Political Studies Review Informationen zum Autor Derek Hutcheson is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Politics, University of Glasgow. His areas of research include party politics and regional politics in post-Soviet Russia, and questions about the 'quality of democracy' in post-communist Europe. Klappentext Since the break-up of the Soviet Union in 1991, Russia's party system has suffered a difficult and turbulent infancy. Moscow based parties have had only very limited territorial penetration, and fragmentation has been one of its most significant features.Based on extensive fieldwork in three Russian regions, this book examines the development of the country's party system and the role played by parties in regional politics. Using a comparative approach, it scrutinises the internal structures and activities of the parties, looks at their decision-making processes, their everyday party life, the activities of party members, and the role of regional party organisations in federal and local election campaigns. Zusammenfassung This book, based on extensive original research in a range of Russian provinces, examines political parties in the new Russia, exploring in particular how party activism on the ground actually works in practice. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Political Parties in the Russian Regions: An Introduction 2. Political Parties in Russia: The Federal Level 3. Politics and Parties in the Regions 4. Party Organizations: Federal, Regional, Local 5. The Membership 6. Parties and Elections in the Middle Volga 7. Russian Party Development in Perspective

Product details

• Authors: Derek S. Hutcheson, Hutcheson Derek S.
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.05.2003
• EAN: 9780415302180
• ISBN: 978-0-415-30218-0
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies; Basees/Routledgecurzon Series; BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Political Parties, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, Political parties and party platforms, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General