Popular Choice and Managed Democracy The Russian Elections of 1999 and 2000
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Sprache:Englisch
Fr. 39.90
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
04.11.2003
Verlag
Rowman & LittlefieldSeitenzahl
330
Maße (L/B/H)
22.9/15.2/1.9 cm
Gewicht
454 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-0-8157-1535-1
" Twice in the winter of 1999-2000, citizens of the Russian Federation flocked to their neighborhood voting stations and scratched their ballots in an atmosphere of uncertainty, rancor, and fear. This book is a tale of these two elections-one for the 450-seat Duma, the other for President. Despite financial crisis, a national security emergency in Chechnya, and cabinet instability, Russian voters unexpectedly supported the status quo. The elected lawmakers prepared to cooperate with the executive branch, a gift that had eluded President Boris Yeltsin since he imposed a post-Soviet constitution by referendum in 1993. When Yeltsin retired six months in advance of schedule, the presidential mantle went to Vladimir Putin-a career KGB officer who fused new and old ways of doing politics. Putin was easily elected President in his own right. This book demonstrates key trends in an extinct superpower, a troubled country in whose stability, modernization, and openness to the international community the West still has a huge stake. "
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