Why not Parties in Russia? : Democracy, Federalism, and the State
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Book Description
Russia has remained highly nonpartisan more than 15 years since Gorbachev first launched his democratizing reforms. The problem is that theories of democracy lack a "control case,"--almost always focusing on cases where parties have already developed and not examining countries where independent politicians are the norm. This book focuses on Russia as just such a control case to reveal why it "stands out." The country's historically influenced combination of federalism and "superpresidentialism", coupled with a postcommunist redistribution of resources, produced and sustained powerful "party substitutes" that have largely squeezed Russia's real parties out of the "electoral market."
About the Author
Henry E. Hale (Ph.D. Harvard 1998, B.A. Duke 1988) is an Assistant Professor of political science at Indiana University in Bloomington, where he researches and writes on political parties, elections, federalism, and ethnic politics with a focus on the cases of the former Soviet region, especially Russia, Ukraine and Uzbekistan. Many of the leading journals in comparative politics and post communist studies have published his work, including the British Journal of Political Science, Comparative Politics, Comparative Political Studies, Europe-Asia Studies, Perspectives on Politics, Post-Soviet Affairs, and World Politics. His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Carnegie Corporation of New York, and the National Council for Eurasian and East European Research. From 1998-2000, as research associate at Harvard's Strengthening Democratic Institutions (SDI) Project, he managed a program for that studied political party development in Russia and brought Russian party leaders to meet with counterparts in the United States. During the 2003-04 and 1999-2000 Russian national electoral cycles, he was chief editor and writer for Russian Election Watch, a highly praised monthly electronic publication circulating updates and analysis to roughly 1,000 readers in the policy making, business, nonprofit, and academic communities. He has held a Davis Center for Russian Studies postdoctoral Fellowship (1998) and a Peace Scholarship from the U.S. Institute of Peace (1995-96). His teaching experience includes adjunct or visiting professorships at the European University in St. Petersburg, Russia, (Spring 1999) and Tufts University's Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (1997-98). He travels frequently to the post-Soviet region and has interviewed many leading Russian politicians. Active in numerous professional organizations, he is a member of the Program on New Approaches to Russian Security and has been a visiting scholar at the Carnegie Moscow Center, the Ea
Why not Parties in Russia? : Democracy, Federalism, and the State,Henry E. Hale,Cambridge University Press,0521844096,1991-,Democracy,General,Government - Comparative,Political Process - Political Parties,Political Science,Political parties,Politics / Current Events,Politics and government,Politics/International Relations,Post-communism,Russia (Federation),Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe),POLITICS & GOVERNMENT,Political Science / General,Political structures: democracy
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