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  • Russia's Regions and Comparative Subnational Politics

    Edited by William M. Reisinger ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Comparative Politics
    Subnational political units are growing in influence in national and international affairs, drawing increasing scholarly attention to politics beyond national capitals. In this book, leading Russian and Western political scientists contribute to debates in comparative politics by examining Russia’s subnational politics.Beginning with a chapter that reviews major debates in theory and method, this ... Read more

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  • Legal Change in Post-Communist States

    Progress, Reversions, Explanations

    Series Book 208 - Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society
    Reformers had high hopes that the end of communism in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union would lead to significant improvements in legal institutions and the role of law in public administration. However, the cumulative experience of 25 years of legal change since communism has been mixed, marked by achievements and failures, advances and moves backward. This book—written by a team of ... Read more

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  • The Regional Roots of Russia's Political Regime

    In The Regional Roots of Russia’s Political Regime, William M. Reisinger and Bryon J. Moraski examine Russian politics at the subnational level in order to discover why democracy failed to take root and how Putin’s authoritarian regime materialized. Since the national regime needed dominant victories in federal legislative and presidential elections, elections were critical to the resurgence of ... Read more

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  • Russian Studies, Political Science, and the Philosophy of Technology

    This volume presents state-of-the-art creative scholarship in political science and area studies with an emphasis on Russia. The contributors, all well-known in their specialties, share the conviction that advancement in the social sciences can only be achieved through plural methodological approaches and interaction with various disciplines. Their work in this collection provides critical ... Read more

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  • Public Opinion And Regime Change

    The New Politics Of Postsoviet Societies

    This volume reports a research that represents some of the collaborative efforts aimed at investigating political attitudes and behaviors in the broader Soviet society, examining the public opinion constraints on efforts to transform the new organizations into a competitive political party system. ... Read more

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    Russian Elite and Mass Perspectives, 1993-2000

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  • The Politics of the Postcommunist World

    Edited by Stephen White, Daniel Nelson ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    This title was first published in 2001. This series brings together the most significant journal articles to appear in the field of comparative politics since the 1970s. The aim is to render accessible to teachers, researchers and students, an extensive range of essays as a basis for understanding established terrain and new ground. ... Read more

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  • Democracy and Political Culture in Eastern Europe

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    What is the relationship between democracy and political culture in countries undergoing major systemic change? Have subjective political orientations of citizens been important in shaping the development of democracy in central and eastern Europe after the fall of communism?These core questions are tackled by an impressive range of twenty political scientists, sixteen of which are based in the ... Read more

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  • Contemporary Housing Struggles

    A Structural Field of Contention Approach

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    This OA book provides a comparative study of housing contention in Budapest and Bucharest in 2008-2021. The financialization of housing and the resulting inequalities, expulsions and social contention are a central characteristic of today’s capitalist crisis. These two East European cities that fall outside the usual focus of urban movements research provide an illuminating case of similar ... Read more

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    Social Consequences of the 1989 Revolutions

    Kristen Ghodsee and Mitchell A. Orenstein blend empirical data with lived experiences to produce a robust picture of who won and who lost in post-communist transition, contextualizing the rise of populism in Eastern Europe. After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, more than 400 million people suddenly found themselves in a new reality, a dramatic transition from state socialist and centrally ... Read more

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  • The Origins of Dominant Parties

    Building Authoritarian Institutions in Post-Soviet Russia

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