The Putin Myth
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6286302 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kathryn Stoner, Kathryn E Stoner (0000-0002-9964-1697, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 5-18 |
| Publication date | 2023-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of democracy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1045-5736 • E-ISSN: 1086-3214 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/jod.2023.0020 |
| OpenAlex | W4366000257 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
Over the past decade, the narrative of competence that Putin established during his first two presidential terms was steadily undermined as the quality of governance worsened. Since 2012, the regime has gradually been relying less on persuasion and more on generating fear in its population—a trend that has accelerated in the face of Russian military failures in Ukraine. That ill-fated war now risks the complete annihilation of the myth of autocratic competence. The Russian example demonstrates the importance of identifying and analyzing changes in the quality of autocracies, and calls for a better understanding of why autocracies become more reliant on violent repression than on spinning an informational narrative of legitimacy and competence
Authoritarianism · Autocracy · Competence (human resources · Credibility · Democracy · Development economics · Economic system · Economics · Legitimacy · Mythology · Narrative · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Population · Presidential system · Sociology · European and Russian Geopolitical Military Strategies · History · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |