Politics of Protest in Hybrid regimes - Managing Dissent in Post-Communist Russia

Informationen zum Autor Graeme B. Robertson is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. His research focuses on labor, social movements, political protest, and the problems of governance in authoritarian regimes. He has published articles in the American Political Science Review, Comparative Politics, the Slavic Review, Communist and Post-Communist Studies, Pro et Contra and the Journal of Democracy. Klappentext Shows how one high-profile hybrid regime manages political competition in the workplace and in the streets in Russia. Zusammenfassung This book builds on unpublished data fieldwork in Russia to show how one high-profile hybrid regime manages political competition in the workplace and in the streets. It develops a theory of how the nature of organizations! state strategies for mobilizing supporters! and elite competition shape political protest in hybrid regimes. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; 2. Protest and regimes: organizational ecology, mobilization strategies and elite competition; 3. Protest and regime in Russia; 4. The geography of strikes; 5. A time for trouble; 6. Elections and the decline of protest; 7. Vladimir Putin and defeat-proofing the system; 8. Protest, repression and order from below; 9. Implications for Russia and elsewhere.

Product details

• Authors: Graeme B. Robertson, Robertson Graeme B.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.12.2010
• EAN: 9780521118750
• ISBN: 978-0-521-11875-0
• Dimensions: 168 mm x 240 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Russia, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, Political activism, Politics & government, Comparative Politics