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Candidate strategies and electoral competition in the Russian Federation : = democracy without foundation /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Candidate strategies and electoral competition in the Russian Federation :/ Regina Smyth.
Reminder of title:	democracy without foundation /
remainder title:	Candidate Strategies & Electoral Competition in the Russian Federation
Author:	Smyth, Regina,
Description:	1 online resource (247 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	Elections - Russia (Federation) -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511510397
ISBN:	9780511510397 (ebook)

Candidate strategies and electoral competition in the Russian Federation : = democracy without foundation /
Smyth, Regina,1961-

Candidate strategies and electoral competition in the Russian Federation :democracy without foundation /Candidate Strategies & Electoral Competition in the Russian FederationRegina Smyth. - 1 online resource (247 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). - Cambridge studies in comparative politics. - Cambridge studies in comparative politics..

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Elections and the development of democratic capacity -- One step forward, two steps back: Russia's failed consolidation in comparative context -- The microfoundations of Democratic responsiveness: candidate strategies and electoral infrastructure -- Many candidates, few choices -- To join or not to join: candidate affiliation in transitional Russia -- Finding fit: candidates and their districts -- Campaigning for the duma: mixed markets, mixed messages -- Democrats, democratic transitions, and Russian democracy.

In the early 1990s, competitive elections in the Russian Federation signaled the end of the authoritarian political system dominated by a single political party. More than ten years and many elections later, a single party led by Russian President Vladimir Putin threatens to end Russia's democratic experiment. Russia's experience with new elections is not unique but it does challenge existing theories of democratic consolidation by showing that competitive elections cannot guarantee successful democratic consolidation. This book explores the conditions under which electoral competition contributes to democratic development by examining impact of elections on democratic consolidation. The theoretic framework focuses on the construction of infrastructure that transforms competitive elections into mechanisms of democratic development and shows how candidates for national parliamentary office systematically chose electoral strategies that undermined Russia's democratic foundation and created the conditions for a new single party autocracy to emerge.

ISBN: 9780511510397 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

564506
Elections
--Russia (Federation)

LC Class. No.: JN6699.A5 / S29 2006

Dewey Class. No.: 324.7/0947

Candidate strategies and electoral competition in the Russian Federation : = democracy without foundation /
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