Institutions and Political Change in Russia

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Introduction: Institutions and Political Change in Russia

   • Neil Robinson

   Pages 1-10

3. The Presidency: the Politics of Institutional Chaos

   • Neil Robinson

   Pages 11-40

4. The Consolidation of Russian Parliamentarism: the State Duma, 1993–8

   • Paul Chaisty, Jeffrey Gleisner

   Pages 41-68

5. Politics, the Rule of Law and the Judiciary

   • Bill Bowring

   Pages 69-84

6. Subnational Institutions in Contemporary Russia

   • Vladimir Gel’man

   Pages 85-105

7. Institutions, Economic Interests and the Stalling of Economic Reform

   • Claire Gordon

   Pages 106-129

8. The Power Ministries

   • Edwin Bacon

   Pages 130-150

9. Foreign Policy-making and Institutions

   • Peter Shearman, Matthew Sussex

   Pages 151-172

10. Public Opinion and Political Institutions

    • Matthew Wyman

    Pages 173-192

11. State and Society in Post-Communist Russia

    • Richard Sakwa

    Pages 193-211

12. Back Matter

    Pages 212-235

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For a decade Russia has been building a new political order. This collection of essays offers a progress report on this effort, recording the projects for institutional reform, their successes and their many failures. Institutions covered include the presidency, the State Duma, regional government, the judiciary, the 'power ministries', the foreign policy and economic policy making establishments. Other chapters examine popular attitudes towards institutions and the crises of state-society relations in Russia.

• communism
• economic policy
• foreign policy
• government
• Institution
• parliament
• Policy
• Russia
• russian and post-soviet politics

• University of Essex, Colchester Essex, UK

  Neil Robinson

NEIL ROBINSON is Lecturer in Russian Politics at the University of Essex. He is the author of Ideology and the Collapse of the Soviet System and (co-author with Karen Henderson) Post Communist Politics.

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