Timothy J Colton
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1013044 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Timothy J Colton |
| NOMBRES | Timothy J |
| APELLIDO | Colton |
| FIRMA | COLTON T J |
| AFILIACIONES | Harvard University Press |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 43 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 319 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 43 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1969 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 11 |
Ukraine and Russia
Will Russia's war tip the Kremlin even further toward tyranny while fortifying Ukraine's democracy? That will depend on Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky as much as on the course of the war itself. If, from a democratization perspective, Ukraine prior to the war had been a work in progress, Russia was the inverse: a work in regress. It is an open question whether a debacle in Ukraine would tip Russia toward tyranny, toward a more modern and r…
Regimeness, Hybridity, and Russian System Building as an Educative Project
Paradoxes of Putinism
Vladimir Putin's trademark since taking charge of Russia's government almost two decades ago has been stability. He has achieved much in terms of this master goal, including economic and demographic recovery. But development on the part of Russian society has been juxtaposed with growing rigidity and control-mindedness on the part of the state. The accumulation of economic, social, and foreign-policy problems in recent years naturally raises ques…
Who Defects? Unpacking a Defection Cascade from Russia's Dominant Party 2008-12
Under what conditions do individuals withdraw support from dominant parties in nondemocratic regimes? Employing an original panel survey, we measure the same individuals' support for Russia's dominant party first at the peak of its dominance in 2008 and again shortly after it suffered a cascading defection of regime supporters in 2011-12. This allows us uniquely to explore the microfoundations of theories of regime defection cascades, generally s…
Putin's Uneasy Return and Hybrid Regime Stability
Despite the tumult associated with the national elections of 2011 and 2012, Putin's regime retains broad and deep connections with the electorate, but ominous signs of erosion portend bigger problems despite the coercive force and other resources at the authorities' disposal
New Uncertainties Enliven Russia's Election Season
To embrace curbs on his own power, Putin would need to act as much out of character as Medvedev would need to act against instinct in order to confront his benefactor
An Aligning Election and the Ukrainian Political Community
This article begins by relating the 2010 presidential election to preceding presidential elections in Ukraine. It demonstrates that this is the first time in Ukraine’s two decades of national independence that strong continuity has been present across successive elections in the territorially aggregated basis of support for the same leading candidate, or between such a candidate and a political mentor. From this perspective, the 2010 election is …
"Russians and the Putin-Medvedev "Tandemocracy
During the 2007-2008 election cycle, the victorious United Russia Party and Dmitri Medvedev pledged to continue the status quo, but voters also genuinely hoped that it would be Medvedev rather than Putin at the helm
Responses
Stephen Kotkin is surely right that Russia cannot be understood fully through the lens of its elections and that it is conceptually risky for political scientists to treat U.S. democracy as its analytical point of departure. He also makes a good point that governance, institutional quality, and actual state performance need to be studied along with civil society and political parties. Fortunately, today's field of political science offers a wide …
The Putin Vote
What leads people to vote for incumbent presidents in hybrid regimes-political systems that allow at least some real opposition to compete in elections but that greatiy advantage the authorities? Here, the case of Russia is analyzed through survey research conducted as part of the Russian Election Studies (RES) series. The RES has queried nationally representative samples of Russia's population both before and shortly after every post-Soviet pres…
Russia in the Year 2004
Four specialists on the former Soviet Union reflect on events in Russia and Ukraine during 2004. Areas covered include power politics in Moscow, the condition of the economy, events in Ukraine, and Russian foreign relations with both the West and the states of the former Soviet Union
A Fresh Look at Semipresidentialism
At the end of the Cold War, semipresidentialism became the modal constitution of the postcommunist world. In Russia and other post-Soviet states, however, this system of government has impeded consolidation. Semipresidentialism combines a popularly elected head of state with a prime minister responsible to the legislature; though this framework seemed to promise the best of all constitutional worlds, when put into practice in many countries durin…
Putin and the "Delegative Democracy" Trap
Three experts on Russian elections analyze the surprising degree to which Russian voters supported their leaders, especially Putin, in the December 2003 Duma elections and the March 2004 presidential election. Drawing on the results of surveys of a nationally representative sample of Russians of voting age made between December 19, 2003, and February 15, 2004, and then between April 4 and May 11, 2004, the authors identify some distinctive trends…
Russian Democracy under Putin
Russians seem content with the current quasi-democratic, quasi-autocratic order
Are Russians Undemocratic
Two experts on Russian politics and government assess claims that undemocratic attitudes prevail among the Russian population. Original survey data about perceptions of democratic institutions and values as well as sociodemographic data are analyzed to gauge support for democratic ideas. Surveys comprise a three-stage panel survey in which interviews and reinterviews took place between November 1999 and May 2000, with an initial sample of 1,919 r…
America's Real Russian Allies
The terrorist attacks that rocked the United States on Septem ber 11 opened a new chapter in the country's relations with the outside world. Already alliances are shifting, U.S. troops are redeploying, and policymakers are rapidly rewriting their agendas. It remains unclear just what the world will look like once the dust settles. But as we enter a new and undefined era, it is becoming increasingly evident that, just as Americas competition with …
Transitional Citizens
This book looks at the newly empowered citizens of Russia’s protodemocracy facing choices at the ballot box that just a few years ago, under dictatorial rule, they could not have dreamt of. Colton finds that despite their unfamiliarity with democracy, subjects-turned-citizens learn about their electoral options from peers and the mass media.
Transitional Citizens
Reinventing Russia's Party of Power
Two specialists on Russian politics chronicle the formation and early development of Unity, the latest version of the “party of power” in Russian politics. Unity's unexpected success in the election of the State Duma in December 1999 helped assure Vladimir Putin's subsequent election as president and gave him a reliable base of support within the Duma itself. The authors draw on extensive interviews with participants to outline the motivations be…
Understanding Iurii Luzhkov
Iurii Luzhkov hopes to parlay his success in Moscow into the Russian presidency. He will need to overcome ideological uncertainty, lax organization, and widespread resentment of his “Moscow miracle” to move from headman to statesman
Moscow
Five Years After the Collapse of the USSR
Moscow
Frontier town into metropolis red Moscow from reurbanization to hyperurbanization Stalin's Moscow the limits of de-Stalinization the politics of basic needs and of urban amenity the mould shattered toward a post-Socialist metropolis appendices - the population of Moscow, composition and administrative structure of the municipal and Communist Party organs of Soviet Moscow, careers of municipal and Communist Party officials, housing construction an…
Moscow
Democracy from Scratch
The Putin Vote
What leads people to vote for incumbent presidents in hybrid regimes-political systems that allow at least some real opposition to compete in elections but that greatiy advantage the authorities? Here, the case of Russia is analyzed through survey research conducted as part of the Russian Election Studies (RES) series. The RES has queried nationally representative samples of Russia's population both before and shortly after every post-Soviet pres…
Economics and Voting in Russia
Who Defects? Unpacking a Defection Cascade from Russia's Dominant Party 2008-12
Under what conditions do individuals withdraw support from dominant parties in nondemocratic regimes? Employing an original panel survey, we measure the same individuals' support for Russia's dominant party first at the peak of its dominance in 2008 and again shortly after it suffered a cascading defection of regime supporters in 2011-12. This allows us uniquely to explore the microfoundations of theories of regime defection cascades, generally s…
Are Russians Undemocratic
Two experts on Russian politics and government assess claims that undemocratic attitudes prevail among the Russian population. Original survey data about perceptions of democratic institutions and values as well as sociodemographic data are analyzed to gauge support for democratic ideas. Surveys comprise a three-stage panel survey in which interviews and reinterviews took place between November 1999 and May 2000, with an initial sample of 1,919 r…
Moscow
Frontier town into metropolis red Moscow from reurbanization to hyperurbanization Stalin's Moscow the limits of de-Stalinization the politics of basic needs and of urban amenity the mould shattered toward a post-Socialist metropolis appendices - the population of Moscow, composition and administrative structure of the municipal and Communist Party organs of Soviet Moscow, careers of municipal and Communist Party officials, housing construction an…
Reinventing Russia's Party of Power
Two specialists on Russian politics chronicle the formation and early development of Unity, the latest version of the “party of power” in Russian politics. Unity's unexpected success in the election of the State Duma in December 1999 helped assure Vladimir Putin's subsequent election as president and gave him a reliable base of support within the Duma itself. The authors draw on extensive interviews with participants to outline the motivations be…
Putin and the "Delegative Democracy" Trap
Three experts on Russian elections analyze the surprising degree to which Russian voters supported their leaders, especially Putin, in the December 2003 Duma elections and the March 2004 presidential election. Drawing on the results of surveys of a nationally representative sample of Russians of voting age made between December 19, 2003, and February 15, 2004, and then between April 4 and May 11, 2004, the authors identify some distinctive trends…
Superpresidentialism and Russia's Backward State
1995). Superpresidentialism and Russia's Backward State. Post-Soviet Affairs: Vol. 11, No. 2, pp. 144-148
Putin's Uneasy Return and Hybrid Regime Stability
Despite the tumult associated with the national elections of 2011 and 2012, Putin's regime retains broad and deep connections with the electorate, but ominous signs of erosion portend bigger problems despite the coercive force and other resources at the authorities' disposal
A Fresh Look at Semipresidentialism
At the end of the Cold War, semipresidentialism became the modal constitution of the postcommunist world. In Russia and other post-Soviet states, however, this system of government has impeded consolidation. Semipresidentialism combines a popularly elected head of state with a prime minister responsible to the legislature; though this framework seemed to promise the best of all constitutional worlds, when put into practice in many countries durin…
An Aligning Election and the Ukrainian Political Community
This article begins by relating the 2010 presidential election to preceding presidential elections in Ukraine. It demonstrates that this is the first time in Ukraine’s two decades of national independence that strong continuity has been present across successive elections in the territorially aggregated basis of support for the same leading candidate, or between such a candidate and a political mentor. From this perspective, the 2010 election is …
"Russians and the Putin-Medvedev "Tandemocracy
During the 2007-2008 election cycle, the victorious United Russia Party and Dmitri Medvedev pledged to continue the status quo, but voters also genuinely hoped that it would be Medvedev rather than Putin at the helm
Democracy from Scratch
Paradoxes of Putinism
Vladimir Putin's trademark since taking charge of Russia's government almost two decades ago has been stability. He has achieved much in terms of this master goal, including economic and demographic recovery. But development on the part of Russian society has been juxtaposed with growing rigidity and control-mindedness on the part of the state. The accumulation of economic, social, and foreign-policy problems in recent years naturally raises ques…
The Dilemma of Reform in the Soviet Union
Soviet-Third World Relations
Russian Democracy under Putin
Russians seem content with the current quasi-democratic, quasi-autocratic order
Ukraine and Russia
Will Russia's war tip the Kremlin even further toward tyranny while fortifying Ukraine's democracy? That will depend on Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky as much as on the course of the war itself. If, from a democratization perspective, Ukraine prior to the war had been a work in progress, Russia was the inverse: a work in regress. It is an open question whether a debacle in Ukraine would tip Russia toward tyranny, toward a more modern and r…
Regimeness, Hybridity, and Russian System Building as an Educative Project
One Year After the Collapse of the USSR
Six senior American specialists in Soviet, Ukrainian, and Russian affairs reflect on economic and political developments in light of apocalyptic expectations articulated in the West after the collapse of the USSR. Presentations, formulated in November 1992, focus on the lot of the consumer during the winter, a survey of direct foreign investments, the leadership of Yel'tsin, military and security considerations, and Russian-Ukrainian relations. C…
Commissars, Commanders, and Civilian Authority
Military Councils and Military Politics in the Russian Civil War
AbstractLes chercheurs occidentaux sont en général d’avis que le conflit de base dans le domaine de la politique militaire soviétique se produit entre le haut commandement militaire et les organes du parti au sein de l’appareil militaire. Ce point de vue n’est pas confirmé par les documents disponibles relatifs à la période de la guerre civile. Le problème de base en matière de politique militaire était le conflit entre le centre et la périphérie…
Responses
Stephen Kotkin is surely right that Russia cannot be understood fully through the lens of its elections and that it is conceptually risky for political scientists to treat U.S. democracy as its analytical point of departure. He also makes a good point that governance, institutional quality, and actual state performance need to be studied along with civil society and political parties. Fortunately, today's field of political science offers a wide …
America's Real Russian Allies
The terrorist attacks that rocked the United States on Septem ber 11 opened a new chapter in the country's relations with the outside world. Already alliances are shifting, U.S. troops are redeploying, and policymakers are rapidly rewriting their agendas. It remains unclear just what the world will look like once the dust settles. But as we enter a new and undefined era, it is becoming increasingly evident that, just as Americas competition with …
Transitional Citizens
The “New Biology” and the Causes of War
La « nouvelle biologie » est un amalgame de faits et d'interprétations glanés auprès des sciences naturelles et les sciences sociales et tendant à donner une nouvelle explication des causes de la guerre. Tout comme les théoriciens qui les ont précédés, K. Lorenz et R. Ardrey, principaux représentants de cette école, situent la racine de la guerre dans une agressivité intrinsèque à la nature humaine. L'homme, selon eux, aurait, comme la plupart de…
Civil-Military Relations in Soviet Politics
Essay| October 01 1974 Civil-Military Relations in Soviet Politics Timothy J. Colton Timothy J. Colton Assistant Professor of Political Economy, University of Toronto Timothy J. Colton has recently completed a doctoral dissertation at Harvard University on the military in Soviet politics. He was a graduate student associate at Harvard’s Russian Research Center and Center for International Affairs from 1972 to 1974. Search for other works by this …
Soviet-Third World Relations
The Soviet Union and the Developing Nations
Military Councils and Military Politics in the Russian Civil War
AbstractLes chercheurs occidentaux sont en général d’avis que le conflit de base dans le domaine de la politique militaire soviétique se produit entre le haut commandement militaire et les organes du parti au sein de l’appareil militaire. Ce point de vue n’est pas confirmé par les documents disponibles relatifs à la période de la guerre civile. Le problème de base en matière de politique militaire était le conflit entre le centre et la périphérie…
The Zhukov affair reconsidered
Big Daddy
This is a readable and perceptive biography of the exuberant and powerful politician Frederick Gardiner who captured the public imagination of Toronto and created a legend around himself during his lifetime. Electronic Format Disclaimer: Photo section removed after page 150 at the request of the rights holder
Commissars, Commanders, and Civilian Authority
The Dilemma of Reform in the Soviet Union
The Soviet Union under Gorbachev
Essay| October 01 1985 The Soviet Union under Gorbachev Timothy J. Colton Timothy J. Colton Director, Center for Russian and East European Studies, University of Toronto Timothy Colton is a professor of political science at the University of Toronto. He is the author of The Dilemma of Reform in the Soviet Union (New York: Council on Foreign Relations, 1984). Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Current History…
The Dilemma of Reform in the Soviet Union
Soldiers and the Soviet State
How much power does the Soviet military exert on the politics of the Kremlin? This is one of the most controversial questions in the study of the Soviet Union, here addressed by eight top Western specialists on Soviet politics and security policy. While the authors assert that the civil-military relationship has been less turbulent than often believed, they also point out that Gorbachev's reforms threaten the system of buffers that have until now…
One Year After the Collapse of the USSR
Six senior American specialists in Soviet, Ukrainian, and Russian affairs reflect on economic and political developments in light of apocalyptic expectations articulated in the West after the collapse of the USSR. Presentations, formulated in November 1992, focus on the lot of the consumer during the winter, a survey of direct foreign investments, the leadership of Yel'tsin, military and security considerations, and Russian-Ukrainian relations. C…
After the Soviet Union
Moscow
Once the hub of the tsarist state, later Brezhnev's "model Communist city"--home of the Kremlin, Red Square, and St. Basil's Cathedral--Moscow is for many the quintessence of everything Russian. Timothy Colton's sweeping biography of this city at the center of Soviet life reveals what such a position has meant to Moscow and ultimately to Russia itself. Linchpin of the Soviet system and exemplar of its ideology, Moscow was nonetheless instrumental…
Moscow
Superpresidentialism and Russia's Backward State
1995). Superpresidentialism and Russia's Backward State. Post-Soviet Affairs: Vol. 11, No. 2, pp. 144-148
Democracy from Scratch
Economics and Voting in Russia
Five Years After the Collapse of the USSR
Moscow
Frontier town into metropolis red Moscow from reurbanization to hyperurbanization Stalin's Moscow the limits of de-Stalinization the politics of basic needs and of urban amenity the mould shattered toward a post-Socialist metropolis appendices - the population of Moscow, composition and administrative structure of the municipal and Communist Party organs of Soviet Moscow, careers of municipal and Communist Party officials, housing construction an…
Moscow
Moscow
Understanding Iurii Luzhkov
Iurii Luzhkov hopes to parlay his success in Moscow into the Russian presidency. He will need to overcome ideological uncertainty, lax organization, and widespread resentment of his “Moscow miracle” to move from headman to statesman
Transitional Citizens
This book looks at the newly empowered citizens of Russia’s protodemocracy facing choices at the ballot box that just a few years ago, under dictatorial rule, they could not have dreamt of. Colton finds that despite their unfamiliarity with democracy, subjects-turned-citizens learn about their electoral options from peers and the mass media.
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