Russia transformed

Titel: Russia transformed : developing popular support for a new regime / Richard Rose ; William Mishler ; Neil Munro
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Veröffentlicht: Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge Univ. Press, 2006
Umfang: XII, 226 S. : graph. Darst.
Format: Buch
Sprache: Englisch
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ISBN: 0521692415 ; 9780521692410 ; 0521871751 ; 9780521871754
  • List of figures
  • p. ix
  • List of tables
  • p. x
  • Acknowledgments
  • p. xi
  • Introduction: Transformation and its aftermath
  • p. 1
  • Transforming institutions and popular support
  • p. 3
  • Top-down and bottom-up approaches to transformation
  • p. 7
  • Analyzing regime support
  • p. 12
  • 1
  • Time matters: the dynamics of regime support
  • p. 16
  • Maintaining support within a steady-state regime
  • p. 18
  • Dynamic challenges
  • p. 22
  • Political re-learning in a new regime
  • p. 24
  • 2
  • The supply of regimes: democratic and autocratic
  • p. 29
  • Defining regimes in two dimensions
  • p. 30
  • Differentiating regimes that elites supply
  • p. 33
  • Contrasting dynamics of regimes
  • p. 38
  • 3
  • A changing supply of Russian regimes
  • p. 49
  • An alternation of despotisms
  • p. 51
  • Mass response: coexisting with despotism
  • p. 56
  • From reform to transformation and a new equilibrium?
  • p. 59
  • 4
  • Uncertainties of transformation: a view from the bottom
  • p. 69
  • From controlled to free inquiry
  • p. 70
  • Values amidst uncertainty
  • p. 75
  • Coping strategies
  • p. 78
  • 5
  • Changing levels of regime support
  • p. 86
  • Variable support for the regime as it is
  • p. 87
  • Dispersed support for alternative regimes
  • p. 94
  • Theories of why Russians differ
  • p. 99
  • 6
  • Social structure and the evaluation of regimes
  • p. 106
  • Social differences are inevitable; their influence is not
  • p. 107
  • Individuals age and society rejuvenates
  • p. 114
  • Combining the effects of social structure
  • p. 118
  • 7
  • The influence of political values and performance
  • p. 124
  • Democracy an ideal, not the Russian reality
  • p. 126
  • The legacy of the past
  • p. 130
  • Performance of a plebiscitarian regime
  • p. 135
  • Political performance matters
  • p. 140
  • 8
  • Finding the economic influences that matter
  • p. 147
  • Downs and ups of the national economy
  • p. 150
  • Downs and ups of the household economy
  • p. 155
  • Politics pervasive; economic influences contingent
  • p. 160
  • 9
  • The impact of the passage of time
  • p. 166
  • Stable and variable influences
  • p. 168
  • Expectations encourage resigned acceptance
  • p. 172
  • The cumulative impact of inertia
  • p. 177
  • 10
  • What could challenge the new equilibrium?
  • p. 185
  • Likelihoods and uncertainties
  • p. 186
  • Risks
  • p. 189
  • 2008: changing leaders or changing regimes?
  • p. 192
  • Appendix A
  • New Russia Barometer samples
  • p. 202
  • Appendix B
  • Coding of variables
  • p. 208
  • References
  • p. 211
  • Index
  • p. 223