Democracy Derailed in Russia: The Failure of Open Politics (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics)

Type

Book

Authors

Fish ( M. Steven Fish )

ISBN 10

0521618967

ISBN 13

9780521618960

Tags

Economics, Democracy, Communism & Socialism, European, Russian & Former Soviet Union, History & Theory, Political History, Political Ideologies

Description

Although Russia experienced dramatic political breakthroughs in the late 1980s and early 1990s after shedding the shackles of Soviet rule, it subsequently failed to continue progressing toward democracy. M. Steven Fish offers an explanation for the direction of regime change in post-Soviet Russia, relying on cross-national comparative analysis as well as on in-depth field research in Russia. Fish demonstrates that Russia's failure to democratize has three causes: too much economic reliance on oil, too little economic liberalization, and too weak a national legislature. - from Amzon

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