Democracy, Gender, and Social Policy in Russia

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Introduction: Democracy, Gender and Citizenship in Post-communist Russia

   1. Introduction: Democracy, Gender and Citizenship in Post-communist Russia

      • Andrea Chandler

      Pages 1-17

3. Discourses of the Early Transition: Liberalism, Feminism, and the Market in the 1990s

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19

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   2. Welfare and Social Justice in the USSR’s Final Years

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      Pages 21-33

   3. Liberalism and Social Reform in the Early Transition

      • Andrea Chandler

      Pages 34-46

   4. Gender Equality, Individual Empowerment, and Pluralism

      • Andrea Chandler

      Pages 47-62

4. Opposition Politics, Nationalism, and the Search for Authenticity, 1995–2004

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 63-63

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   2. Social Welfare in the Mid-Transition, 1995–2000

      • Andrea Chandler

      Pages 65-74

   3. The Debate on Public Morality

      • Andrea Chandler

      Pages 75-86

   4. The Rediscovery of the Child

      • Andrea Chandler

      Pages 87-104

5. Statism and Democratic Reversal under Putin: Policies for a Wayward Society, 2000–2008

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 105-106

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   2. Pronatalism and Family Politics under Putin’s Presidency

      • Andrea Chandler

      Pages 107-132

   3. Gender and the State in Debates on Conscription

      • Andrea Chandler

      Pages 133-145

6. Steps towards a Post-Putin Social Contract

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 147-149

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   2. Social Justice and Social Inclusion, 2005–2011

      • Andrea Chandler

      Pages 151-168

7. Conclusion

   1. Conclusion

      • Andrea Chandler

      Pages 169-173

8. Back Matter

   Pages 174-254

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Through compelling and insightful analysis of the Russian case, this book explores the role that social welfare plays in regime transitions. It examines the role that gender and social welfare has played in Russia's post-communist political evolution from Yeltsin's assumption of the presidency to Putin's return for a third term as president in 2012

• communism
• democracy
• feminism
• gender
• nationalism
• pluralism
• Policy
• politics
• social justice
• social policy
• russian and post-soviet politics

“Chandler’s book provides a valuable resource for researchers interested in the interplay between gender, democracy and social policy in post-Soviet Russia and a useful case study for those interested in the role of discourse in public policy debates.” (Richard C. M. Mole, SEER - Slavonic and East European Review, Vol. 94 (4), October, 2016) 

Andrea Chandler's fine new book provides an innovative analysis of the competing discourses liberal, nationalist, feminist, human rights - that political elites and citizens used to debate social policy in Russia from 1990-2011. Chandler assigns discourse a key role in explaining policy outcomes, and argues that social policy has been a major cause of both democratizing and de-democratizing regime changes.

Linda Cook, Department of Political Science, Brown University, USA

• Department of Political Science, Carleton University, Canada

  Andrea Chandler

Andrea Chandler is Professor in the Department of Political Science, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. She authored two previous books: Institutions of Isolation: Border Controls in the Soviet Union and its Successor States, 1917-1993 and Shocking Mother Russia: Democratization, Social Rights, and Pension Reform in Russia, 1990-2001.

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