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The chapters of the book systematically examine various effects of 'resource curse' in different arenas such as state building, regime changes, rule of law, property rights, policy-making, interest representation, and international ...
This book will appeal to those interested in democratization, elites, post-Soviet Russia and post-communist studies.
With its innovative model of path-contingent democratization and its new typology of political regimes and regime transitions, this book will be essential reading for all scholars of democracy.
Why and how has the electoral authoritarian regime been consolidated in Russia? What are the mechanisms of its maintenance, and what is its likely future course? This book attempts to answer these basic questions.
This book will appeal to those interested in democratization, elites, post-Soviet Russia and post-communist studies.