Format:
1 online resource (216 pages)
ISBN:
9781139081276
Content:
A unique study of how popular support can grow when governors reject democracy and create an undemocratic regime.
Content:
Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Introduction: The need for popular support -- The regimes that rulers supply -- Plan of the book -- 1 Democratic and undemocratic models of support -- Mixing support and compliance -- Theories of support -- Worldwide support for regimes of all kinds -- 2 Changing the supply of regimes -- Hard and soft coercion -- Ideology and fear: the Stalinist approach -- Promoting positive support -- Competition for support -- Yeltsin struggles to fill the void -- A peaceful succession -- 3 Putin consolidates a new regime -- Repatriating power to the Kremlin -- A floating system of parties -- Emergence of a party of power -- Institutionalizing a noncompetitive party system -- Creating United Russia -- A hegemonic party system -- 4 Increasing support for an undemocratic regime -- Support with and without democratization -- Empirical responses to democracy as symbol -- Measuring support -- Dynamics of regime support -- Contrasting elite evaluations of change -- The changing views of Russians -- Variability of support -- A lifetime of learning and relearning -- 5 Individual influences on regime support -- Social differences inevitable -- their influence is not -- Political performance matters -- The regime that Russians want -- The regime Russians get -- The economy that matters -- Combining influences -- 6 Time tells: there is no alternative -- Stable and variable influences -- Expectations of change -- Context and time -- Combining context and individual evaluations -- 7 Finessing the challenge of succession -- The problem of term limits -- Speculating about alternatives -- Ending uncertainty -- Organizing the right result -- Substantively, voters endorse Putin's choices -- Contrasting views of electoral fairness -- Politics influences perceptions of fairness.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107009523
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781107009523
Language:
English
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=692006
