Manifestations of Delegative Democracy in Russian Local Politics

What Does It Mean for the Future of Russia

Datos Bibliográficos

ID6180689
AutoresAndrei P Tsygankov (0000-0002-4314-1116, University of Southern California, autor de correspondencia), Andrei Tsygankov (School of International Relations, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA. Tel: 1-818-956-7950; E-mail: [email protected])
Año1998
Volumen31
Número4
Páginas329-344
Fecha de publicación1998-12-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaCommunist and Post-Communist Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0967-067X • E-ISSN: 1873-6920
EditorialUniversity of California Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1016/s0967-067x(98)00015-4
OpenAlexW2021290490
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas8
Referencias citadas11

In attempts to describe post-communist politics adequately, this paper employs the concept of delegative democracy for analyzing Russia's local politics. It argues that the election rather than appointment by the President of local governors in Russia has facilitated the establishment of a system which can be generally described as delegative democracy. This regime inherits free and contested elections from the democratic system and non-democratic methods of power consolidation from the authoritarian system. As a mixture of those two hardly reconcilable types of political system, delegative democracy in Russia has gained a shape and reached a certain degree of stability during 1993–95. This gain may delay the consolidation of representative democracy in Russia for an indefinite time and eventually lead to a new level of economic stagnation and a return to authoritarianism

Authoritarianism · Communism · Democracy · Democratic consolidation · Democratic system · Democratization · Development economics · Economic system · Economics · Political economy · Political science · Political system · Politics · Sociology · Law · Legal and Policy Issues · Sociopolitical Dynamics in Russia