Another Russia? Putin’s Invented Opposition
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6288897 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stephen Sestanovich (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 122-124 |
| Publication date | 2007-04-01 |
| 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.2007.0035 |
| OpenAlex | W2087844873 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
Despite all their difficulties, today’s Kremlin political operators probably calculate that they will be able to protect themselves against the forces that undermined Gorbachev’s reform project in the 1980s—elite division, grassroots mobilization, intractable national problems, and new electoral rules that gave the regime’s opponents a huge opening. Yet they cannot be completely secure as long as they are constrained by these same electoral rules. Running a one-party state is easy enough if you can set the rules yourself and break them at will. But keeping up democratic appearances means taking risks that can empower your opponents
Democracy · Elite · Grassroots · Law and economics · Opposition (politics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · State (computer science · Computer Science · Eastern European Communism and Reforms · Law · Post-Soviet Geopolitical Dynamics · Russia and Soviet political economy
| Citations per year | 0.29 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2009 - 2012 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |