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Governance in Russia: A View from the Bottom

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 January 2004

RICHARD ROSE
RICHARD ROSE
Affiliation:
Centre for the Study of Public Policy, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow G1 1XH, [email protected]
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The governance of Russia is important in a multiplicity of ways. As the successor state of the Soviet Union, it retains characteristics of a global superpower, including a nuclear arsenal and a permanent seat in the Security Council of the United Nations. As a country with land or sea borders extending from Japan and China across Central Asia to the boundaries of an enlarging European Union, Russian affairs concern neighbours across much of the globe. As a land rich in natural resources such as oil, gas and gold, controllers of these resources have significant assets in the international economy. As a political system that has made a massive turn from a post-totalitarian one-party state to a government holding free competitive elections, the Russian Federation is a leading example of a regime in transformation. Above all, as the primary institution affecting the lives of more than 140 million people, the governance of Russia is important to its citizens.

Type
Research Article
Information
Japanese Journal of Political Science , Volume 4 , Issue 2 , November 2003 , pp. 257 - 271
Copyright
© 2003 Cambridge University Press

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Footnotes

This paper is an outgrowth of British Economic & Social Research Council grant, Diverging paths of Post-Communist Regime RES-000-23-0193 and R000238107 on Russia's Third-Round Elections. For a fuller discussion of many themes herein, see Richard Rose & Neil Munro, Elections without Order: Russia's Challenge to Vladimir Putin, Cambridge University Press, 2002.