Institutions, Ideas and Leadership in Russian Politics

Informationen zum Autor J. PAUL GOODE Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Oklahoma, USATOMILA LANKINA Senior Research Fellow and Lecturer at De Montfort University, UKTHOMAS F. REMINGTON Goodrich C. White Professor of Political Science at Emory University, USAPETER RUTLAND Colin and Nancy Campbell Professor in Global Issues and Democratic Thought at Wesleyan University, USAALFRED STEPAN Wallace Sayre Professor of Government at the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University, USAKENNETH WILSON Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science, Dongguk University, Seoul, South Korea. Klappentext A stimulating and thought-provoking collection that challenges some of the emerging conventional wisdom about contemporary Russia. It examines the role of leadership, institutions and ideas, and the interactions among them, in shaping Russia's post-Soviet transformation. Zusammenfassung A stimulating and thought-provoking collection that challenges some of the emerging conventional wisdom about contemporary Russia. It examines the role of leadership! institutions and ideas! and the interactions among them! in shaping Russia's post-Soviet transformation. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Institutions, Ideas, and Leadership in Post-Soviet Russia; J.Newton Presidents and Parties: Leadership and Institution-Building in Post-Communist Russia; T.F.Remington Russia's Gubernatorial Elections: A Post-Mortem; J.P.Goode Back to the Future? Thoughts on the Political Economy of Expanding State Ownership in Russia; W.Tompson Shortcut to Great Power: Russia in Pursuit of Multipolarity; J.Newton The Presence of Absence: Ethnicity Policy in Russia; P. Rutland Political Parties Under Putin: Party-System Development and Democracy; K.Wilson The Rule-of-Law Factor; J.Kahn Ukraine: Improbable Democratic 'nation-State' but Possible Democratic 'State-Nation'?; A.Stepan Explaining European Union Aid to Russia; T.Lankina...

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• Authors: Juli Newton, Julie Newton, Julie M. Newton, Julie M. Tompson Newton, NEWTON JULIE M TOMPSON WILLIAM, William Tompson, William J. Tompson
• Assisted by: J. Newton (Editor), Julie Newton (Editor), Julie M. Newton (Editor), W. Tompson (Editor), William Tompson (Editor), William J. Tompson (Editor)
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.06.2010
• EAN: 9780230551473
• ISBN: 978-0-230-55147-3
• No. of pages: 261
• Series: St Antony's Series; St Antony's; St Antony's Series; St Antony's
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; B, Europe, European Politics, Political Science, European Union, Politics & government, Political science & theory, Public Administration, Public Policy, United States of America, USA, EU (European Union), Palgrave Political & Intern. Studies Collection, European Union Politics, Europe—Politics and government, US Politics, United States—Politics and government, American Politics