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Russia's Authoritarian Elections
About this book
Russia is the world's largest country, and its politics affect the entire international community. Formally, who exercises the power of government is decided, as in Western democracies, by competitive elections that are held at regular intervals. But there have increasingly been doubts about the extent to which Russian parliamentary and presidential elections can be considered 'free and fair', and it is the argument of this coauthored study that they are better defined as 'authoritarian elections', with a number of distinct characteristics. Using a wide range of sources, including surveys, election statistics, interviews, focus groups and the printed press, the contributors to this important collection analyse Russia's authoritarian elections in a variety of ways: how they are conducted, what citizens think about them, and how the Russian experience relates to a wider international context. Elections are the central mechanism by which citizens can seek to hold their government to account; this collection shows the ways in which that mechanism can be manipulated from above such it becomes more of an extension of central authority than a means by which the public at large can impose their own priorities.
This book was originally published as a special issue of Europe-Asia Studies.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- 1. Elections Russian-Style
- 2. Changing the Russian Electoral System: Inside the Black Box
- 3. Russia’s Authoritarian Elections: The View from Below
- 4. Metastasised Fraud in Russia’s 2008 Presidential Election
- 5. The Regional Roots of Electoral Authoritarianism in Russia
- 6. Regional Elections and Electoral Authoritarianism in Russia
- 7. Public Perceptions of Electoral Fairness in Russia
- 8. Elections, International Observers and the Politicisation of Democratic Values
- 9. Post-Soviet Electoral Practices in Comparative Perspective
- 10. Appendix: The Russian Federal Elections, 2007–2008
- Index