Institutions, Ideas and Leadership in Russian Politics

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Introduction: Explaining Political and Economic Change in Post-Soviet Russia

   • Julie Newton

   Pages 1-21

3. Presidents and Parties: Leadership and Institution-Building in Post-Communist Russia

   • Thomas F. Remington

   Pages 22-42

4. Russia’s Gubernatorial Elections: A Postmortem

   • J. Paul Goode

   Pages 43-66

5. Back to the Future? Thoughts on the Political Economy of Expanding State Ownership in Russia

   • William Tompson

   Pages 67-87

6. Shortcut to Great Power: Russia in Pursuit of Multipolarity

   • Julie Newton

   Pages 88-115

7. The Presence of Absence: Ethnicity Policy in Russia

   • Peter Rutland

   Pages 116-136

8. Political Parties Under Putin: Party-System Development and Democracy

   • Kenneth Wilson

   Pages 137-158

9. The Rule-of-Law Factor

   • Jeffrey Kahn

   Pages 159-183

10. Ukraine: Improbable Democratic ‘Nation-State’, but Possible Democratic ‘State-Nation’?

    • Alfred Stepan

    Pages 184-217

11. Explaining European Union Aid to Russia

    • Tomila Lankina

    Pages 218-241

12. Back Matter

    Pages 242-250

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A stimulating and thought-provoking collection that challenges some of the emerging conventional wisdom about contemporary Russia. It examines the role of leadership, institutions and ideas, and the interactions among them, in shaping Russia's post-Soviet transformation.

• communism
• democracy
• economy
• European Union
• European Union (EU)
• Institution
• Policy
• Political Parties
• politics
• transformation
• european union politics
• us politics

• Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre, St Antony’s College Oxford, UK

  Julie Newton

• Economics Department, OECD, France

  William Tompson

J. PAUL GOODE Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Oklahoma, USA TOMILA LANKINA Senior Research Fellow and Lecturer at De Montfort University, UK THOMAS F. REMINGTON Goodrich C. White Professor of Political Science at Emory University, USA PETER RUTLAND Colin and Nancy Campbell Professor in Global Issues and Democratic Thought at Wesleyan University, USA ALFRED STEPAN Wallace Sayre Professor of Government at the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), Columbia University, USA KENNETH WILSON Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science, Dongguk University, Seoul, South Korea.

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