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Democracy Derailed in Russia: The Failure of Open Politics

By M. Steven Fish

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2005
ISBN
0521618967, 9780521618960
LCC
JN6695 .F57 2005
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1837431 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
Pages
333\335
Topic
Education
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Although Russia experienced dramatic political breakthroughs in the late 1980s and early 1990s after shedding the shackles of Soviet rule, it subsequently failed to continue progressing toward democracy. 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 demonstrates 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.

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