1st Edition

Russian Regional Politics under Putin and Medvedev

Edited By Cameron Ross Copyright 2012
184 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

184 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

184 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Many authors have alluded to the unique nature of Russia’s dual transition and its difficult task of simultaneously reforming its economy and polity. But there is in fact a third transition still far from completed that is of no less importance, the need to reconfigure central-regional relations and to create a stable and viable form of federalism. There are vast economic, demographic and... Read more

1. Introduction: Russian Regional Politics under Putin and Medvedev  Cameron Ross

2. Medvedev’s New Governors  Helge Blakkisrud

3. Russia’s Regional Legislative Elections, 2003–2007: Authoritarianism Incorporated  Grigorii V. Golosov

4. Electoral Legislation in Russian Regions  Arkady Lyubarev

5. The Rise and Fall of Political Parties in Russia’s Regional Assemblies  Cameron Ross

6. Local Regimes, Sub-national Governance and the ‘Power Vertical’ in Contemporary Russia  Vladimir Gel’man & Sergei Ryzhenkov

7. The Clash of Regionalisms and Caucasian Conflicts  Richard Sakwa

8. Has the Russian Federation Been Chechenised?  Robert Ware

9. Kadyrov’s Chechnya—Template, Test or Trouble for Russia’s Regional Policy?  John Russell

Biography

Cameron Ross is a Reader in politics at the University of Dundee, UK. He has taught politics at the University of Cambridge, the College of William and Mary (Virginia, USA) and Oberlin College (Ohio, USA).