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Elections --- Representative government and representation --- Gouvernement représentatif --- Russia (Federation) --- Russie --- Politics and government --- Politique et gouvernement --- Gouvernement représentatif

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What went wrong in Russia's decade-old post-communist transition? A group of leading young scholars answer this question by offering assessments of five crucial political arenas during the Yeltsin era: elections, executive-legislative relations, interactions between the central state and the regions, economic reforms, and civil-military relations. All of the contributors recognize that adverse historical legacies have complicated Russian democratization. They challenge structural explanations that emphasize constraints of the pre-existing system, however, and concentrate instead on the importance of elite decisions and institution-building. The authors agree that elites' failure to develop robust political institutions has been a central problem of Russia's post-communist transition. The weakness of the state and its institutions has contributed to a number of serious problems threatening democratic consolidation. These include the tensions between the executive and the legislature, the frail infrastructure for successful market reform, and the absence of proper civilian control over the armed forces.

Democracy --- Post-communism --- Démocratie --- Postcommunisme --- Russia (Federation) --- Russie --- Politics and government --- Economic policy --- Politique et gouvernement --- Politique économique --- #SBIB:328H262 --- -Post-communism --- -Postcommunism --- World politics --- Communism --- Self-government --- Political science --- Equality --- Representative government and representation --- Republics --- Instellingen en beleid: Rusland en het GOS --- -Russia (Federation) --- -Politics and government --- -Economic policy --- -Democracy --- -Instellingen en beleid: Rusland en het GOS --- Démocratie --- Politique économique --- 1991 --- Social Sciences --- Political Science --- Putin, Vladimir Vladimirovich, --- Putin, Wladimir Wladimirowitsch, --- Putin, Volodymyr, --- Pujing, --- Poutine, Vladimir Vladimirovitch, --- Путин, Владимир Владимирович, --- Putinas, Vladimiras, --- Putin, V. V. --- Poetin, Vladimir Vladimirovitsj,

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Can democratic states transplant the seeds of democracy into developing countries? What have political thinkers going back to the Greek city-states thought about their capacity to promote democracy? How can democracy be established in divided societies? This books answers these and other fundamental questions behind the concept known as 'democracy promotion.' Following an illuminating concise discussion of what political philosophers from Plato to Montesquieu thought about the issue, the authors explore the structural preconditions (culture, divided societies, civil society) as well as the institutions and processes of democracy building (constitutions, elections, security sector reform, conflict, and trade). Along the way they share insights about what policies have worked, which ones need to be improved or discarded, and, more generally, what advanced democracies can do to further the cause of democratization in a globalizing world. In other words, they seek answers to the question, Is democracy exportable?

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