Vladimir Gel'Man
Biographic Data
| ID | 4539950 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vladimir Gel'Man |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vladimir |
| FAMILY NAME | Gel'Man |
| SIGNATURE | MAN V G |
| AFFILIATIONS | a European University, St. Petersburg |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 349 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 19 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
The Politics of Fear
The article attempts to analyze the mechanisms of political control used by the Kremlin vis-à-vis its rivals. Russian authorities had opted the politics of fear, which include overt intimidation and public discrediting of the regime's critics, and selective persecution and open harassment of opposition activists and/or supporters. This approach to political control to some degree reproduced similar mechanisms that had enabled regime survival in t…
Authoritarian Modernization in Russia
Authoritarian Modernization in Russia
Authoritarian Russia
Political Opposition in Russia
In the mid-2000s, the decline of opposition politics in Russia was so sharp and undisputed that the title of an article I wrote at the time, ‘Political Opposition in Russia: A Dying Species?’ (Gel
Authoritarian Russia
Cracks in the Wall
In 2011-2012, the opposition successfully capitalized on the regime's miscalculations to undermine the status quo from within, despite Putin's return to power and its own inability so far to overthrow the regime
Local Regimes, Sub-national Governance and the ‘Power Vertical’ in Contemporary Russia
The emergence of local regimes, 1 or relatively stable patterns of sub-national governance, became an important logical consequence of the turbulent political and economic changes in Russia's regio
Party Politics in Russia
In the 1990s, political parties in Russia suffered from their under-development. By contrast, in the 2000s they became major actors in the electoral and parliamentary arenas, both at the national a
Authoritarian Versus Democratic Diffusions
Two political scientists address questions posed by the puzzling survival of the institution of elected city mayors in Russia despite the efforts of the national government to abolish it. Based on datasets not only of local government reforms across all the regions but also of the regional component of European Union aid, statistical analysis is used to challenge dominant approaches to democratic institution building and diffusion theories are ap…
Out of the Frying Pan, into the Fire? Post-Soviet Regime Changes in Comparative Perspective
Why do some countries become democracies, while others move from one nondemocratic regime to another? Post-communist transformations in the countries of the former Soviet Union could be viewed as a “natural experiment” in regime change: the politics of post-Soviet states demonstrate a great diversity. In this article, I present a partial theory of post-Soviet regime change and attempt to explain the outcomes of elite conflicts in post-Soviet stat…
From ‘feckless pluralism’ to ‘dominant power politics’? The transformation of Russia's party system
The transformation of Russia's party system demonstrates a trend towards a decrease in party competition since the establishment of the party of power, United Russia, which claims to have become the dominant party. These developments are unique among post-Soviet countries, which merely attempted to create personalist, rather than party-based, monopolies of ruling elites. Why have Russia's elites opted to build a party-based monopoly and what are …
Political Opposition in Russia
A specialist on Russian politics examines the evolution of political opposition in Russia from 1989 to 2005. The article specifies and employs a framework that focuses on the structure of the political elite and the political opportunity structure that it provides to oppositional forces. The framework is tested in brief case studies of three oppositional forces: communists, liberals, and democrats. Prospects for the future of political opposition…
The unrule of law in the making
‘INFORMAL INSTITUTIONALISATION’ (O’Donnell, 1996), or the prevalence of informal rules and norms over the formal institutions of political regimes (Merkel & Croissant, 2000), is a typical outcome of various post-authoritarian transitions (Helmke & Levitsky, 2003), including post-Soviet ones. The dominance of informal institutions which create obstacles to the rule of law is a major distinction between Russia (and other post-Soviet regimes) and mo…
Post-Soviet Transitions and Democratization
Conventional models of 'transitions to democracy' are incomplete and insufficient for the analysis of the regime changes in Russia and other post-Soviet societies, which go beyond the usual textbook cases. This article reconsiders conceptual frameworks for the analysis of democracy and democratization in the light of the experience of post-Soviet political developments. The distinction between types of predominant political institutions (formal v…
In search of local autonomy
Despite a series of local government reforms in the 1990s, Russia's localities still lack serious autonomy. Only big cities maintain hopes for the emergence of local autonomy and local democracy. City politics has produced multiple conflicts between regional and local authorities; however, regional-local relations merely reflect fundamental center-periphery controversies on a smaller territorial scale. While big cities and their metropolitan area…
Daniel S. Treisman , After the Deluge. Regional Crises and Political Consolidation in Russia
(2000). Daniel S. Treisman , After the Deluge. Regional Crises and Political Consolidation in Russia. Europe-Asia Studies: Vol. 52, No. 6, pp. 1165-1167
Second Europe-Asia Lecture
(1999). SECOND EUROPE-ASIA LECTURE: Regime Transition, Uncertainty and Prospects for Democratisation: The Politics of Russia's Regions in a Comparative Perspective. Europe-Asia Studies: Vol. 51, No. 6, pp. 939-956
Regional party system formation in Russia
The level of organizational development achieved by competitive political parties in Sverdlovsk oblast is higher than in many other regions of Russia. In cross‐regional comparative perspective, the deviant case of Sverdlovsk oblast suggests that, for a political system lacking a recent history of competitive political parties, establishing free elections can promote the development and institutionalization of a party system in the following polit…
Local Regimes, Sub-national Governance and the ‘Power Vertical’ in Contemporary Russia
The emergence of local regimes, 1 or relatively stable patterns of sub-national governance, became an important logical consequence of the turbulent political and economic changes in Russia's regio
Party Politics in Russia
In the 1990s, political parties in Russia suffered from their under-development. By contrast, in the 2000s they became major actors in the electoral and parliamentary arenas, both at the national a
From ‘feckless pluralism’ to ‘dominant power politics’? The transformation of Russia's party system
The transformation of Russia's party system demonstrates a trend towards a decrease in party competition since the establishment of the party of power, United Russia, which claims to have become the dominant party. These developments are unique among post-Soviet countries, which merely attempted to create personalist, rather than party-based, monopolies of ruling elites. Why have Russia's elites opted to build a party-based monopoly and what are …
Authoritarian Versus Democratic Diffusions
Two political scientists address questions posed by the puzzling survival of the institution of elected city mayors in Russia despite the efforts of the national government to abolish it. Based on datasets not only of local government reforms across all the regions but also of the regional component of European Union aid, statistical analysis is used to challenge dominant approaches to democratic institution building and diffusion theories are ap…
Political Opposition in Russia
A specialist on Russian politics examines the evolution of political opposition in Russia from 1989 to 2005. The article specifies and employs a framework that focuses on the structure of the political elite and the political opportunity structure that it provides to oppositional forces. The framework is tested in brief case studies of three oppositional forces: communists, liberals, and democrats. Prospects for the future of political opposition…
Political Opposition in Russia
In the mid-2000s, the decline of opposition politics in Russia was so sharp and undisputed that the title of an article I wrote at the time, ‘Political Opposition in Russia: A Dying Species?’ (Gel
The unrule of law in the making
‘INFORMAL INSTITUTIONALISATION’ (O’Donnell, 1996), or the prevalence of informal rules and norms over the formal institutions of political regimes (Merkel & Croissant, 2000), is a typical outcome of various post-authoritarian transitions (Helmke & Levitsky, 2003), including post-Soviet ones. The dominance of informal institutions which create obstacles to the rule of law is a major distinction between Russia (and other post-Soviet regimes) and mo…
Second Europe-Asia Lecture
(1999). SECOND EUROPE-ASIA LECTURE: Regime Transition, Uncertainty and Prospects for Democratisation: The Politics of Russia's Regions in a Comparative Perspective. Europe-Asia Studies: Vol. 51, No. 6, pp. 939-956
Cracks in the Wall
In 2011-2012, the opposition successfully capitalized on the regime's miscalculations to undermine the status quo from within, despite Putin's return to power and its own inability so far to overthrow the regime
Out of the Frying Pan, into the Fire? Post-Soviet Regime Changes in Comparative Perspective
Why do some countries become democracies, while others move from one nondemocratic regime to another? Post-communist transformations in the countries of the former Soviet Union could be viewed as a “natural experiment” in regime change: the politics of post-Soviet states demonstrate a great diversity. In this article, I present a partial theory of post-Soviet regime change and attempt to explain the outcomes of elite conflicts in post-Soviet stat…
Post-Soviet Transitions and Democratization
Conventional models of 'transitions to democracy' are incomplete and insufficient for the analysis of the regime changes in Russia and other post-Soviet societies, which go beyond the usual textbook cases. This article reconsiders conceptual frameworks for the analysis of democracy and democratization in the light of the experience of post-Soviet political developments. The distinction between types of predominant political institutions (formal v…
Regional party system formation in Russia
The level of organizational development achieved by competitive political parties in Sverdlovsk oblast is higher than in many other regions of Russia. In cross‐regional comparative perspective, the deviant case of Sverdlovsk oblast suggests that, for a political system lacking a recent history of competitive political parties, establishing free elections can promote the development and institutionalization of a party system in the following polit…
In search of local autonomy
Despite a series of local government reforms in the 1990s, Russia's localities still lack serious autonomy. Only big cities maintain hopes for the emergence of local autonomy and local democracy. City politics has produced multiple conflicts between regional and local authorities; however, regional-local relations merely reflect fundamental center-periphery controversies on a smaller territorial scale. While big cities and their metropolitan area…
Regional party system formation in Russia
The level of organizational development achieved by competitive political parties in Sverdlovsk oblast is higher than in many other regions of Russia. In cross‐regional comparative perspective, the deviant case of Sverdlovsk oblast suggests that, for a political system lacking a recent history of competitive political parties, establishing free elections can promote the development and institutionalization of a party system in the following polit…
Second Europe-Asia Lecture
(1999). SECOND EUROPE-ASIA LECTURE: Regime Transition, Uncertainty and Prospects for Democratisation: The Politics of Russia's Regions in a Comparative Perspective. Europe-Asia Studies: Vol. 51, No. 6, pp. 939-956
Daniel S. Treisman , After the Deluge. Regional Crises and Political Consolidation in Russia
(2000). Daniel S. Treisman , After the Deluge. Regional Crises and Political Consolidation in Russia. Europe-Asia Studies: Vol. 52, No. 6, pp. 1165-1167
Post-Soviet Transitions and Democratization
Conventional models of 'transitions to democracy' are incomplete and insufficient for the analysis of the regime changes in Russia and other post-Soviet societies, which go beyond the usual textbook cases. This article reconsiders conceptual frameworks for the analysis of democracy and democratization in the light of the experience of post-Soviet political developments. The distinction between types of predominant political institutions (formal v…
In search of local autonomy
Despite a series of local government reforms in the 1990s, Russia's localities still lack serious autonomy. Only big cities maintain hopes for the emergence of local autonomy and local democracy. City politics has produced multiple conflicts between regional and local authorities; however, regional-local relations merely reflect fundamental center-periphery controversies on a smaller territorial scale. While big cities and their metropolitan area…
The unrule of law in the making
‘INFORMAL INSTITUTIONALISATION’ (O’Donnell, 1996), or the prevalence of informal rules and norms over the formal institutions of political regimes (Merkel & Croissant, 2000), is a typical outcome of various post-authoritarian transitions (Helmke & Levitsky, 2003), including post-Soviet ones. The dominance of informal institutions which create obstacles to the rule of law is a major distinction between Russia (and other post-Soviet regimes) and mo…
Political Opposition in Russia
A specialist on Russian politics examines the evolution of political opposition in Russia from 1989 to 2005. The article specifies and employs a framework that focuses on the structure of the political elite and the political opportunity structure that it provides to oppositional forces. The framework is tested in brief case studies of three oppositional forces: communists, liberals, and democrats. Prospects for the future of political opposition…
From ‘feckless pluralism’ to ‘dominant power politics’? The transformation of Russia's party system
The transformation of Russia's party system demonstrates a trend towards a decrease in party competition since the establishment of the party of power, United Russia, which claims to have become the dominant party. These developments are unique among post-Soviet countries, which merely attempted to create personalist, rather than party-based, monopolies of ruling elites. Why have Russia's elites opted to build a party-based monopoly and what are …
Party Politics in Russia
In the 1990s, political parties in Russia suffered from their under-development. By contrast, in the 2000s they became major actors in the electoral and parliamentary arenas, both at the national a
Authoritarian Versus Democratic Diffusions
Two political scientists address questions posed by the puzzling survival of the institution of elected city mayors in Russia despite the efforts of the national government to abolish it. Based on datasets not only of local government reforms across all the regions but also of the regional component of European Union aid, statistical analysis is used to challenge dominant approaches to democratic institution building and diffusion theories are ap…
Out of the Frying Pan, into the Fire? Post-Soviet Regime Changes in Comparative Perspective
Why do some countries become democracies, while others move from one nondemocratic regime to another? Post-communist transformations in the countries of the former Soviet Union could be viewed as a “natural experiment” in regime change: the politics of post-Soviet states demonstrate a great diversity. In this article, I present a partial theory of post-Soviet regime change and attempt to explain the outcomes of elite conflicts in post-Soviet stat…
Local Regimes, Sub-national Governance and the ‘Power Vertical’ in Contemporary Russia
The emergence of local regimes, 1 or relatively stable patterns of sub-national governance, became an important logical consequence of the turbulent political and economic changes in Russia's regio
Cracks in the Wall
In 2011-2012, the opposition successfully capitalized on the regime's miscalculations to undermine the status quo from within, despite Putin's return to power and its own inability so far to overthrow the regime
Authoritarian Russia
Political Opposition in Russia
In the mid-2000s, the decline of opposition politics in Russia was so sharp and undisputed that the title of an article I wrote at the time, ‘Political Opposition in Russia: A Dying Species?’ (Gel
Authoritarian Russia
Authoritarian Modernization in Russia
Authoritarian Modernization in Russia
The Politics of Fear
The article attempts to analyze the mechanisms of political control used by the Kremlin vis-à-vis its rivals. Russian authorities had opted the politics of fear, which include overt intimidation and public discrediting of the regime's critics, and selective persecution and open harassment of opposition activists and/or supporters. This approach to political control to some degree reproduced similar mechanisms that had enabled regime survival in t…
Political science (16 works) · Law (15 works) · Politics (15 works) · Political economy (14 works) · Economics (13 works) · Law (11 works) · Political Conflict and Governance (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Economic system (9 works) · Democracy (8 works)