Politics versus policy: технократические ловушки постсоветских реформ

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Politics versus policy: технократические ловушки постсоветских реформ

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Bringing Actors Back in : Political Choices and Sources of Post-Soviet Regime Dynamics

One might summarize the state of the field of research into contemporary Russian politics as a dismal consensus: most observers believe that durable authoritarianism has consolidated itself, and there is very little chance of democratization in the foreseeable future. However, political regime changes are often launched and developed overtime as side effects of moves made by political actors, and their outcomes are not predetermined. This article aims to go beyond this dismal consensus, and revisits some of the arguments on the role of structure and agency in post-Soviet regime dynamics. Apart from the changes in structural variables, it reconsiders the role of the incentives and choices of self-interested political actors, who are not always omnipotent and well-informed strategists. The overall dismal tendencies nevertheless leave some bias for hope in the analysis of regime dynamics in post-Soviet Eurasia and beyond.Peer reviewe

Politics versus Policy : Technocratic Traps of Russia's Policy Reforms

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Moscow in Movement: Power and Opposition in Putin's Russia, by Samuel A. Greene (book review)

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The Politics of Fear : How Russia's Rulers Counter their Rivals

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Semi-presidentialism in the Caucasus and Central Asia, edited by Robert Elgie and Sophia Moestrup [Book review]

Book review. Reviewed work: Semi-Presidentialism in the Caucasus and Central Asia / edirted by Robert Elgie and Sophia Moestrup. - Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. ISBN 978-1-137-38781-3 (hb).Non peer reviewe

Opportunities and Constraints of Authoritarian Modernisation : Russian Policy Reforms in the 2000s

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