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10.1057/9780230282940.Pdf St Antony’s Series General Editor: Jan Zielonka (2004– ), Fellow of St Antony’s College, Oxford Othon Anastasakis, Research Fellow of St Antony’s College, Oxford and Director of South East European Studies at Oxford Recent titles include: Julie Newton and William Tompson (editors) INSTITUTIONS, IDEAS AND LEADERSHIP IN RUSSIAN POLITICS Celia Kerslake , Kerem Oˇktem, and Philip Robins (editors) TURKEY’S ENGAGEMENT WITH MODERNITY Conflict and Change in the Twentieth Century Paradorn Rangsimaporn RUSSIA AS AN ASPIRING GREAT POWER IN EAST ASIA Perceptions and Policies from Yeltsin to Putin Motti Golani THE END OF THE BRITISH MANDATE FOR PALESTINE, 1948 The Diary of Sir Henry Gurney Demetra Tzanaki WOMEN AND NATIONALISM IN THE MAKING OF MODERN GREECE The Founding of the Kingdom to the Greco-Turkish War Simone Bunse SMALL STATES AND EU GOVERNANCE Leadership through the Council Presidency Judith Marquand DEVELOPMENT AID IN RUSSIA Lessons from Siberia Li-Chen Sim THE RISE AND FALL OF PRIVATIZATION IN THE RUSSIAN OIL INDUSTRY Stefania Bernini FAMILY LIFE AND INDIVIDUAL WELFARE IN POSTWAR EUROPE Britain and Italy Compared Tomila V. Lankina, Anneke Hudalla and Helmut Wollman LOCAL GOVERNANCE IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE Comparing Performance in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Russia Cathy Gormley-Heenan POLITICAL LEADERSHIP AND THE NORTHERN IRELAND PEACE PROCESS Role, Capacity and Effect Lori Plotkin Boghardt KUWAIT AMID WAR, PEACE AND REVOLUTION Paul Chaisty LEGISLATIVE POLITICS AND ECONOMIC POWER IN RUSSIA Valpy FitzGerald, Frances Stewart and Rajesh Venugopal (editors) GLOBALIZATION, VIOLENT CONFLICT AND SELF-DETERMINATION Miwao Matsumoto TECHNOLOGY GATEKEEPERS FOR WAR AND PEACE The British Ship Revolution and Japanese Industrialization Håkan Thörn ANTI-APARTHEID AND THE EMERGENCE OF A GLOBAL CIVIL SOCIETY Lotte Hughes MOVING THE MAASAI A Colonial Misadventure Fiona Macaulay GENDER POLITICS IN BRAZIL AND CHILE The Role of Parties in National and Local Policymaking Stephen Whitefield (editor) POLITICAL CULTURE AND POST-COMMUNISM José Esteban Castro WATER, POWER AND CITIZENSHIP Social Struggle in the Basin of Mexico Valpy FitzGerald and Rosemary Thorp (editors) ECONOMIC DOCTRINES IN LATIN AMERICA Origins, Embedding and Evolution Victoria D. Alexander and Marilyn Rueschemeyer ART AND THE STATE The Visual Arts in Comparative Perspective Ailish Johnson EUROPEAN WELFARE STATES AND SUPRANATIONAL GOVERNANCE OF SOCIAL POLICY Archie Brown (editor) THE DEMISE OF MARXISM-LENINISM IN RUSSIA Thomas Boghardt SPIES OF THE KAISER German Covert Operations in Great Britain during the First World War Era Ulf Schmidt JUSTICE AT NUREMBERG Leo Alexander and the Nazi Doctors’ Trial Steve Tsang (editor) PEACE AND SECURITY ACROSS THE TAIWAN STRAIT James Milner REFUGEES, THE STATE AND THE POLITICS OF ASYLUM IN AFRICA Stephen Fortescue (editor) RUSSIAN POLITICS FROM LENIN TO PUTIN St Antony’s Series Series Standing Order ISBN 978-0-333-71109-5 (hardback) 978-0-333-80341-7 (paperback) (outside North America only) You can receive future titles in this series as they are published by placing a standing order. Please contact your bookseller or, in case of difficulty, write to us at the address below with your name and address, the title of the series and the ISBNs quoted above. Customer Services Department, Macmillan Distribution Ltd, Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS, England Institutions, Ideas and Leadership in Russian Politics Edited By Julie Newton Visiting Fellow, Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre, St Antony’s College Oxford, UK William Tompson Senior Economist, Economics Department, OECD, France In Association with Palgrave Macmillan Editorial matter, selection and introduction © Julie Newton and William Tompson 2010 All remaining chapters © respective authors 2010 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2010 978-0-230-55147-3 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. 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Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries ISBN 978-1-349-36232-5 ISBN 978-0-230-28294-0 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9780230282940 This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources. Logging, pulping and manufacturing processes are expected to conform to the environmental regulations of the country of origin. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Institutions, ideas and leadership in Russian politics / edited by Julie M. Newton, William J. Tompson. p. cm. – (St. Antony’s series) 1. Russia (Federation)–Politics and government–1991– 2. Political leadership–Russia (Federation. 3. Post-communism–Russia (Federation) I. Newton, Julie M., 1961– II. Tompson, William J. JN6695.I585 2010 320.947–dc22 2010010819 10987654321 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 We dedicate this book to Archie Brown and the example he embodies. This page intentionally left blank Contents Notes on Contributors viii 1 Introduction: Explaining Political and Economic 1 Change in Post-Soviet Russia Julie Newton 2 Presidents and Parties: Leadership and Institution-Building 22 in Post-Communist Russia Thomas F. Remington 3 Russia’s Gubernatorial Elections: A Postmortem 43 J. Paul Goode 4 Back to the Future? Thoughts on the Political Economy 67 of Expanding State Ownership in Russia William Tompson 5 Shortcut to Great Power: Russia in Pursuit of 88 Multipolarity Julie Newton 6 The Presence of Absence: Ethnicity Policy in Russia 116 Peter Rutland 7 Political Parties Under Putin: Party-System Development 137 and Democracy Kenneth Wilson 8 The Rule-of-Law Factor 159 Jeffrey Kahn 9 Ukraine: Improbable Democratic ‘Nation-State’, but 184 Possible Democratic ‘State-Nation’? Alfred Stepan 10 Explaining European Union Aid to Russia 218 Tomila Lankina Index 242 vii Notes on Contributors J. Paul Goode is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Oklahoma, where he lectures on Russian and comparative politics. He received a BA from the University of Texas, an MA in pol- itics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and an MPhil from the University of Oxford, where he also earned his DPhil in 2005 under the supervision of Archie Brown. Prior to his current post, he was Visit- ing Lecturer at the Royal Holloway, University of London. He has published articles in Europe-Asia Studies, Post-Soviet Affairs, and Russian Analytical Digest, and he is currently finishing a book on regionalism in Russia. Jeffrey Kahn is an Assistant Professor of Law at Southern Methodist University, where he teaches and writes on American constitutional law, Russian law, comparative human rights and national security law issues. He earned a BA from Yale University, an MPhil and DPhil from St Antony’s College, University of Oxford, and a JD from the University of Michigan School of Law. Prior to academia, he served as a trial attorney in the United States Department of Justice. His doctoral dissertation, completed under the supervision of Professor Archie Brown, was published as Federalism, Democratization, and the Rule of Law in Russia (2002). His scholarship on Russian politics and law has been published in Post-Soviet Affairs, the Review of Central and East European Law, the Michigan Journal of Law Reform, the Georgetown Journal of International Law, the Georgia Journal of International and Comparative Law, and several edited volumes. Tomila Lankina is a Senior Research Fellow and Lecturer at De Montfort University, Leicester. She received an MA in international relations from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in Massachusetts and a DPhil in politics from the University of Oxford in 2001 under the supervision of Archie Brown. Prior to her current post, she was Research Associate at the World Resources Institute in Washington, DC, Faculty Fellow with American University, Senior Research Fellow with the Insti- tute for the Social Sciences of the Humboldt University in Berlin, Visiting Woodrow Wilson Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington DC and Post-Doctoral Fellow at Stanford viii Notes on Contributors ix University. She co-authored, with Anneke Hudalla and Hellmut Wollmann, Local Governance in Central and Eastern Europe: Comparing Performance in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Russia (2008); and is the author of Governing the
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