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Why Not Parties in Russia? Henry E. Hale (George Washington University, Washington DC)

Why Not Parties in Russia? By Henry E. Hale (George Washington University, Washington DC)

Why Not Parties in Russia? by Henry E. Hale (George Washington University, Washington DC)

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Whereas virtually every classic work on the theory of party development takes political parties to be inevitable and essential to democracy, Russia has been dominated by non-partisan politicians ever since communism collapsed. This book demonstrates why Russia stands out as a preserve of non-partisanship.

Why Not Parties in Russia? Summary

Why Not Parties in Russia?: Democracy, Federalism, and the State by Henry E. Hale (George Washington University, Washington DC)

Russia poses a major puzzle for theorists of party development. Whereas virtually every classic work takes political parties to be inevitable and essential to democracy, Russia has been dominated by non-partisan politicians ever since communism collapsed. This book mobilizes public opinion surveys, interviews with leading Russian politicians, careful tracking of multiple campaigns, and analysis of national and regional voting patterns to show why Russia stands out. Russia's historically influenced combination of federalism and super-presidentialism, coupled with a post-communist redistribution of resources to regional political machines and oligarchic financial-industrial groups, produced and sustained powerful party-substitutes that have largely squeezed Russia's real parties out, damaging Russia's democratic development.

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'Hale's book is an important contribution to the field. It is ambitious, intelligent, well-researched and rigorous. It contains significant primary research and is the fullest attempt to theorise party-system development in Russia and to locate it in the comparative literature thus far.' Europe-Asia Studies
' the substance of Henry E. Hale's detailed, scrupulously researched and engagingly written study is likely to be consulted for a long time to come. It makes key empirical and theoretical contributions to the study of Russian politics from a wide range of sources this rich volume will remain pivotal for understanding Russian politics, perhaps even after Putin himself no longer remains so.' Luke March, University of Edinburgh

About Henry E. Hale (George Washington University, Washington DC)

Henry E. Hale (PhD Harvard University, Massachusetts, 1998, AB Duke University, North Carolina, 1988) is an Assistant Professor of political science at George Washington University, Washington DC, 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. Before moving to George Washington University, he taught at Indiana University.

Table of Contents

1. Electoral markets and Russia's political smorgasboard; 2. Party entrepreneurship in Russia's electoral market, 19892004; 3. How much party is in the party system?; 4. Electoral markets and party substitutes in Russia: origins and impact; 5. Parties and party substitutes: determining the balance; 6. Conclusion: the market model and theories of parties, national integration, and transitions from authoritarian rule.

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NPB9780521844093
9780521844093
0521844096
Why Not Parties in Russia?: Democracy, Federalism, and the State by Henry E. Hale (George Washington University, Washington DC)
Henry E. Hale (George Washington University, Washington DC)
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Hardback
Cambridge University Press
2005-12-05
288
Winner of Leon Epstein Award - Political Organizations and Parties Section 2007
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