From Adygeya to Yaroslavl: Factors of Party Development in the Regions of Russia, 1995-1998

Golosov, Grigorii V.

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“…Note that Russia's regional regimes of the 1990s were not necessarily undemocratic. Some of them closely replicated the national model of disorderly yet rather competitive politics, while others could be viewed as hubs of subnational democracy (Golosov, 1999), which continuously exerted some impact on regional political patterns in the 2000s and thereafter (Obydenkova and Libman, 2013;Libman and Obydenkova, 2014b). However, the bulk of the available evidence clearly indicates that already by the end of the 1990s, deviations from authoritarian rule in the regions became increasingly rare and unusual.…”

Section: Russia's Governors On the Route To Authoritarian Incorporationmentioning

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Federalism, gubernatorial power and the incorporation of subnational authoritarianism in Russia: A theory-testing empirical inquiry

Demchenko

Golosov

2015

Acta Polit

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This article investigates the complex relationship between federalism and electoral authoritarianism by making an empirical inquiry into the structure of incentives that shaped the reform of Russia's regional election laws in [2004][2005][2006][2007][2008][2009]. The idea behind the reform was to make the incumbent governors more manageable and more dependent on the federal authorities. However, the process of its practical implementation largely coincided with Russia's transition to electoral authoritarianism, as a result of which this original intention was reversed by endowing regional authorities with an unrestricted effective power to determine the course of the reform. The main hypothesis of this study is that bounded only by the reform framework, the governors exerted their influence to maximize one of their main assets, the loyalty of the regional assembles. In order to substantiate this hypothesis empirically, a model formalizing the governors' optimization problem is constructed, its possible implications are discussed and their statistical support is examined. The results obtained support the theory according to which electoral authoritarianism, rather than simply suppressing the autonomy of most powerful subnational actors, incorporates them by expanding their effective control over the regional political arenas. The previously existing federal arrangements are instrumental in pursuing this goal.

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Federalism, gubernatorial power and the incorporation of subnational authoritarianism in Russia: A theory-testing empirical inquiry

Demchenko

Golosov

2015

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“…Previous studies, some of which have dealt with parties only marginally, have been based upon evidence limited to certain moments in time (Golosov, 1999;Petrov, 1995;Slider, 1996) or to certain regions (Gel'man and Golosov, 1998), or both (Hughes, 1997;Matsuzato, 1997). The technical reason for this narrowness of empirical focus is clear.…”

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The Vicious Circle of Party Underdevelopment in Russia: The Regional Connection

Golosov¹

2003

International Political Science Review

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This article explores the region-level impediments to the process of party formation in Russia during 1993-2002. The design of Russia's national electoral system produces parties because they are entitled to contest the proportional part of legislative elections. Once produced in this way, parties are motivated to penetrate into the regions. However, the article empirically demonstrates that the parties' attempts to penetrate the peripheries of the country have failed throughout the period. Region-level factors that impede the process of party formation include the dominant modes of separation of power, electoral systems, and the patterns of intra-elite conflict in the regions. In turn, the lack of territorial penetration makes national political parties unsustainable.

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“…Winning office is almost solely a conflict among political clans about the distribution of economic and political power in the regions. Golosov (1999) analysed elections for Russia's regional legislatures and found similar patterns of weak political parties and strong patronage networks.…”

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The Effect of Governor Support on Legislative Behaviour in the RussianDuma

Thames¹

2009

Europe-Asia Studies

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Until the 2007 Duma election, the Russian polity displayed several characteristics that should have allowed regional leaders to have an impact on deputies: a federalist system, an electoral system that encouraged regional representation, weak political parties, and regional leaders with electoral resources. Recent research on Russian mixed-member Duma elections argues that governors influenced the election of single-member district deputies. This raises the spectre that governors could have influenced the behaviour of these deputies. Using data from the third post-communist Duma, I demonstrate that single-member district deputies backed by regional leaders in the 1999 Duma election behaved differently from others in two critical areas: parliamentary party choice and support for the presidential legislative agenda. Governor support did not, however, affect committee choice.

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From Adygeya to Yaroslavl: Factors of Party Development in the Regions of Russia, 1995-1998

Cited by 26 publications

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Federalism, gubernatorial power and the incorporation of subnational authoritarianism in Russia: A theory-testing empirical inquiry

Federalism, gubernatorial power and the incorporation of subnational authoritarianism in Russia: A theory-testing empirical inquiry

The Vicious Circle of Party Underdevelopment in Russia: The Regional Connection

The Effect of Governor Support on Legislative Behaviour in the RussianDuma

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