Elections Without Order: Russia's Challenge to Vladimir Putin

Richard Rose, Neil Munro

Cambridge University Press, Aug 15, 2002 - Political Science - 262 pages

Russians want both free elections and order. In the past decade Russia's political elites have had no difficulty in supplying a great choice of candidates and parties. But order - a sense of predictability in everyday life and the rule of law - has been in short supply. This is the challenge that Russia presents to Vladimir Putin. This book is about Russia's attempt to achieve democratization backwards, holding elections without having created a modern state. It examines the multiplication of parties that do not hold the Kremlin accountable; the success of Vladimir Putin in offering a 'third way' alternative to the Communist Party and the Yeltsin family; the new president's big but vague election mandate; the popular appeal and limits of Putin's coalition; and what the Russian people make of the combination of free elections and disorderly government. The authors draw on unrivalled survey and polling data, presented concisely and clearly

Contents

• A disorderly legacy: 16
• Disorderly rule under many regimes: 17
• The disorderly creation of the Russian Federation: 24
• An economy with too much money and not enough order: 32
• Democratization backwards: 41
• Creating modern and antimodern states: 43
• Realizing the democratic potential of modern states: 51
• Contrasts in postCommunist contexts: 53
• Alternative outcomes: 58
• What Russians have made of transformation: 61
• How good were the good old days?: 62
• Coping with a disorderly society: 66
• matching supply and demand: 74
• Presidential succession a Family problem: 82
• Yeltsins second term: 83
• Searching for a third alternative: 91
• Bombshells metaphorical and otherwise: 94
• Parties without accountability: 101
• Four systems of parties: 103
• Why Duma elections matter: 109
• Scrambling to form parties: 111
• A floating system of parties: 118
• Getting on the ballot: 119
• Competing to fill a vacuum: 123
• Multiple outcomes: 130
• Impact of transformation on Duma voters: 141
• Transformation influences: 143
• Ideologies and party choice: 147
• Equilibrium influences: 150
• Transformation most important for party choice: 157
• From acting to elected president: 164
• Laying on of hands: 165
• Tying up a winning coalition: 169
• Confirmation without campaigning: 173
• Multiple influences on presidential choice: 179
• Campaigning and governing: 187
• Winning the rating war: 188
• Centralizing power: 195
• Disciplining wild capitalism: 203
• Going international before and after September 11: 205
• Putins limited impact on Russians: 211
• In search of an equilibrium: 218
• The rule of law in short supply: 220
• An hourglass not a civil society: 223
• An absence of accountability: 227
• Matching supply and demand: 231
• Settling down differently: 238
• New Russia Barometer samples: 240
• Coding of independent variables: 242
• References: 246
• Index: 259

About the author

Richard Rose is Director of the Centre for the Study of Public Policy at the University of Strathclyde. Author of more than forty books and many articles, he is a Fellow of the British Academy and an honorary Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Neil Munro is a Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Public Policy at the University of Strathclyde.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Elections Without Order: Russia's Challenge to Vladimir Putin
• Authors: Richard Rose, Neil Munro
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2002
• ISBN: 0521016444, 9780521016445
• Length: 262 pages
• Subjects: Political Science / Comparative Politics; Political Science / Political Process / Campaigns & Elections; Political Science / Public Policy / Economic Policy; Political Science / World / General; Political Science / World / Russian & Soviet