Russian Politics and Law, July 2011 Table of Contents

Volume 49 Number 4 / July-August 2011 of Russian Politics and Law is now available on the M.E. Sharpe web site at http://mesharpe.metapress.com. This issue contains: Local and Regional Politics in Russia: Editor’s Introduction p.3 Dmitry Gorenburg Russian Federalism as a “Dormant” Institution p.8 Andrei Zakharov Unattainable Symmetry: On the Results of the “Amalgamation” of Regions [...]

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Local and Regional Politics in Russia: Editor’s Introduction

Having examined the state and future of Russia’s political system on a national level in the last two issues of Russian Politics and Law, the current issue turns to subnational politics. There have been numerous studies in recent years of the decline of Russian federalism in the aftermath of the Putin regime’s centralization drive. Local [...]

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Russian Politics and Law, March 2010 Table of Contents

Volume 48 Number 2 / March-April 2010 Dmitry Gorenburg: The Structure of Regional Politics in Russia: Editor’s Introduction p. 3 Vladimir Gelman: The Dynamics of Subnational Authoritarianism (Russia in Comparative Perspective) p. 7 Rostislav F. Turovskii: Regional Political Regimes in Russia: Toward a Methodology of Analysis p. 27 Maksim Vas’kov: The Upper Echelon of the [...]

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The Structure of Regional Politics in Russia

This issue of Russian Politics and Law continues some themes that we introduced in previous issues. The bulk of the articles begin where the previous issue on center–periphery relations left off, focusing on the periphery side of that equation to analyze how politics is conducted in Russia’s regions under the current centralizing regime. This is an issue that has not [...]

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