Presidents, Oligarchs and Bureaucrats: Forms of Rule in the Post-Soviet Space
By: and
Sign Up Now!
Already a Member? Log In
You must be logged into UK education collection to access this title.
Learn about membership options,
or view our freely available titles.
- Synopsis
- In the past decade the ‘transition paradigm’, assuming a shift from authoritarianism to democracy on the territory of the post-Soviet space and elsewhere, has been subjected to serious and justified criticism. The complex political and societal developments in the post-Soviet countries have made it clear that a transition to democracy is far from given. Rather a ‘grey zone’, to use Thomas Carothers’ term, has developed, including many regimes which neither fit the traditional democratic nor the classic authoritarian mould. Numerous attempts have therefore been made to devise new categories or to modify existing ones in order to account for the diversity of post-Soviet regimes. These have included many variants of ‘democracy with adjectives’, such as illiberal democracy, delegative democracy and so on, as well as the development of permutations of authoritarianism (competitive, electoral and many more).
- Copyright:
- 2012
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- ISBN-13:
- 9781315602080
- Publisher:
- Routledge
- Date of Addition:
- 09/20/16
- Copyrighted By:
- Susan Stewart, Margarete Klein, Andrea Schmitz and Hans-Henning Schröder
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Politics and Government
- Submitted By:
- Taylor and Francis VIP Team
- Proofread By:
- Taylor and Francis VIP Team
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.