Waiting For Reform Under Putin and Medvedev de L. Jonson

Waiting For Reform Under Putin and Medvedev

L. Jonson

S. White

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.

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Paperback (1)

370^.62 lei 6-8 săpt.

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370^.62 lei 6-8 săpt.

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Palgrave Macmillan UK – 20 aug 2012

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Introduction; L.Jonson & S.White PART I: THE CHALLENGE OF MODERNIZATION IN RUSSIA Globalization and Discursive Resistance: Authoritarian Power Structures in Russia and the Challenges of Modernity; N.Hayoz Russian Modernization Doctrines under Debate; M.Urnov PART II: CHARACTERISTICS OF THE RUSSIAN SYSTEM The Nature and Function of 'Putinism'; L.Gudkov The Myth of the Russian 'Unique Path' and Public Opinion; B.Dubin Socio-Cultural Factors and Russian Modernization; E.Pain PART III: PIECEMEAL REFORM UNDER PUTIN AND MEDVEDEV The Policy-making Process in Putin's Prime Ministership; S.Fortescue Business Representation in the State Duma; P.Chaisty De-bureaucratizing the Small Business Sector; E.Huskey United Russia's Political Recruitment in the Russian Regions and 'the strengthening of the Power Vertical': The Case of Novgorod Region; C.Fauconnier PART IV: CHALLENGES AND RISKS OF MODERNIZATION Modernization and the Russian Regions; N.Petrov Benefits and Risks of Political Modernization in Russia; I.Busygina & MikhailFilippov PART V: REFLECTIONS IN EARLY 2012 Modernization and After; S.White & L.Jonson

Notă biografică

IRINA BUSYGINA Professor, Department of Comparative Politics, Moscow State Institute of International Relations, RussiaPAUL 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, UKCLEMENTINE FAUCONNIER PhD student in Russian studies, Institute of Political Sciences and the CERI (Center for International Studies and Research), Paris, FranceMIKHAIL 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 HeraldNICOLAS HAYOZ Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the Interdisciplinary Institute of Central and Eastern Europe at the University of Freibourg, SwitzerlandEUGENE HUSKEY William R. Kenan Professor of Political Science and Russian Studies at Stetson University in Florida, USALENA JONSON Senior Research Fellow, Associate Professor, and Head of the Russia Research Program at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs in Stockholm, SwedenEMIL PAIN General Director of the Centre for Ethno-Political Studies in Moscow and Professor at the State University Higher School of Economics, RussiaNIKOLAI PETROV Scholar-in-Residence at the Carnegie Moscow Center, RussiaSTEPHEN 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, UKMARK URNOV Professor and Academic Supervisor at the Faculty of Politics, National Research University Higher School of Economics in Moscow, Russia