Waiting For Reform Under Putin and Medvedev

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Lena Jonson, Stephen White

      Pages 1-15

3. The Challenge of Modernization in Russia

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-17

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   2. Globalization and Discursive Resistance: Authoritarian Power Structures in Russia and the Challenges of Modernity

      • Nicolas Hayoz

      Pages 19-37

   3. Russian Modernization Doctrines under Debate

      • Mark Urnov

      Pages 38-58

4. Characteristics of the Russian System

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 59-59

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   2. The Nature and Function of ‘Putinism’

      • Lev Gudkov

      Pages 61-80

   3. The Myth of the Russian ‘Unique Path’ and Public Opinion

      • Boris Dubin

      Pages 81-95

   4. Socio-Cultural Factors and Russian Modernization

      • Emil Pain

      Pages 96-116

5. Piecemeal Reform under Putin and Medvedev

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 117-117

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   2. The Policymaking Process in Putin’s Prime Ministership

      • Stephen Fortescue

      Pages 119-139

   3. Business Representation in the State Duma

      • Paul Chaisty

      Pages 140-158

   4. De-bureaucratizing the Small Business Sector

      • Eugene Huskey

      Pages 159-169

   5. United Russia’s Political Recruitment in the Russian Regions and ‘the Strengthening of the Power Vertical’: The Case of Novgorod Region

      • Clementine Fauconnier

      Pages 170-189

6. Challenges and Risks of Modernization

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 191-191

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   2. Modernization and the Russian Regions

      • Nikolai Petrov

      Pages 193-212

   3. Benefits and Risks of Political Modernization in Russia

      • Irina Busygina, Mikhail Filippov

      Pages 213-233

7. Reflections in Early 2012

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 235-235

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   2. Modernization and After

      • Stephen White, Lena Jonson

      Pages 237-249

8. Back Matter

   Pages 251-252

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In September 2009 Dmitrii Medvedev unveiled the term that was to become the defining objective of his presidency: 'modernization.' The contributors to this book, drawn from the leading scholars in Russian affairs, focus on the contested nature of the concept of modernization and the obstacles that arose in attempting to carry it out.

• globalization
• nature
• pain
• Policy
• public opinion
• reform
• state
• us politics

• Swedish Institute of International Affairs, Sweden

  Lena Jonson

• University of Glasgow, UK

  Stephen White

IRINA BUSYGINA Professor, Department of Comparative Politics, Moscow State Institute of International Relations, Russia PAUL CHAISTY University Lecturer in Politics, St Antony's College, Oxford University, UK BORIS DUBIN Head of the Department of Political and Social Studies at the Levada Analytical Center in Moscow, UK CLEMENTINE FAUCONNIER PhD student in Russian studies, Institute of Political Sciences and the CERI (Center for International Studies and Research), Paris, France MIKHAIL FILIPPOV Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science, Binghamton University (SUNY), USA STEPHEN FORTESCUE Associate Professor in Russian pPolitics, School of Social Sciences, University of New South Wales, Australia LEV GUDKOV Professor, Director of the Levada Center, Russia, and Editor-in-Chief of The Russian Public Opinion Herald NICOLAS HAYOZ Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the Interdisciplinary Institute of Central and Eastern Europe at the University of Freibourg, Switzerland EUGENE HUSKEY William R. Kenan Professor of Political Science and Russian Studies at Stetson University in Florida, USA LENA JONSON Senior Research Fellow, Associate Professor, and Head of the Russia Research Program at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs in Stockholm, Sweden EMIL PAIN General Director of the Centre for Ethno-Political Studies in Moscow and Professor at the State University Higher School of Economics, Russia NIKOLAI PETROV Scholar-in-Residence at the Carnegie Moscow Center, Russia STEPHEN WHITE James Bryce Professor of Politics and a Senior Research Associate of the University's School of Central and East European Studies, University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK MARK URNOV Professor and Academic Supervisor at the Faculty of Politics, National Research University Higher School of Economics in Moscow, Russia

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