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Bezig met laden... Democracy Derailed in Russia: The Failure of Open Politics (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics)door M. Steven Fish
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Why has democracy failed to take root in Russia? After shedding the shackles of Soviet rule, some countries in the postcommunist region undertook lasting democratization. Yet Russia did not. Russia experienced dramatic political breakthroughs in the late 1980s and early 1990s, but it subsequently failed to maintain progress toward democracy. In this book, M. Steven Fish offers an explanation for the direction of regime change in post-Soviet Russia. Relying on cross-national comparative analysis as well as on in-depth field research in Russia, Fish shows that Russia's failure to democratize has three causes: too much economic reliance on oil, too little economic liberalization, and too weak a national legislature. Fish's explanation challenges others that have attributed Russia's political travails to history, political culture, or to 'shock therapy' in economic policy. The book offers a theoretically original and empirically rigorous explanation for one of the most pressing political problems of our time. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Solid political science book that uses quantitative empirical reasoning and comparative statistical analysis.
The first section of the book is defining 'democracy', using Dahl's list of characteristics for polyarchy. Effective participation, voting equality at the decisive stage, enlightened understanding, control of the agenda, inclusiveness. Russia falls behind on four of these.
After a comparative analysis eliminating which factors either do not have a demonstrated effect on Poverty (ethnic heterogeneity, religion) or at least do not apply to Russia (colonization, severe poverty). So what does this leave us with?
1) Too Much Oil.
The 'resource curse' of valuable natural resources where all the profits are divided among extractive corporate institutions and associates, and not necessarily spent on social projects or investment in the local economy besides further resource infrastructure. Oligarchy.
2) Too Little Economic Reform.
3) A Too-Weak Legislature and thus a Too-Strong 'Super-presidential' Executive Branch.
This in turn is correlated with political apathy, corruption, bureaucracy, a shellacked media, weak political parties, and so forth. 'Thug' apparatus which is not always authoritarian, but is at least oligarchic.
Very convincing and interesting. (