The new Kremlinology : understanding regime personalization in Russia / Alexander Baturo and Johan A. Elkink.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Baturo, Alexander, author.

Elkink, Johan A., author.

Series:

Comparative politics (Oxford University Press)

Comparative politics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Authoritarianism--Russia (Federation).

Authoritarianism.

Personality and politics--Russia (Federation).

Personality and politics.

Political leadership--Russia (Federation).

Political leadership.

Political culture--Russia (Federation).

Political culture.

Russia (Federation)--Politics and government--1991-.

Russia (Federation).

Putin, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1952-.

Putin, Vladimir Vladimirovich.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 216 pages) : illustrations (black and white).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, England ; New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2021]

Summary:

An in-depth examination of the development of regime personalization in Russia. In the post-Cold War period, many previously democratizing countries experienced authoritarian reversals whereby incumbent leaders took over and gravitated towards personalist rule. Scholars have predominantly focused on the authoritarian turn, as opposed to the type of authoritarian rule emerging from it. In a departure from accounts centred on the failure of democratization in Russia, this book's argument begins from the assumption that the political regime of Vladimir Putin is a personalist regime in the making. Focusing on the politics within the Russian ruling coalition since 1999, 'The New Kremlinology' describes the process of regime personalization, that is, the acquisition of personal power by a leader.

Contents:

Cover

The New Kremlinology: Understanding Regime Personalization in Russia

Copyright

Contents

List of Tables

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

1: Regime Personalization in Russia

Analysing Personalization in Russia

Personalization in Comparative Context

Strong Personalization in Libya

Weak Personalization in China

Four Pillars of Personalization

The Case of Russia

Pillars of Personalization in Russia

The New Kremlinology as a Method

Plan of the Book

2: Understanding Regime Personalization

Theoretical Foundations and Conceptualizations

Personalism and Personalist Regimes

Personalism and Regime Personalization

Personalism as 'One Man Rule'

Beyond 'One Man Rule': Personalism as Patrimonialism

Pillars of Regime Personalization

Patronage Personalization

Deinstitutionalization

Media Personalization

Permanency in Office

Dynamics of Regime Personalization

Stages of Personalization

Causal Complexity, Endogeneity, and Agency

Conclusions: Expectations for the Case of Russia

3: The Politics of 'Collective Putin' and Patronage Personalization

The 'Collective Putin' and Regime Personalization

Understanding Patronage

Measuring Patronage Networks

Patronage and Regime Personalization

Stages of Personalization and the Decline of Other Networks

Patronal Control in Institutional Segments

Conclusions

4: Regime Deinstitutionalization

Understanding Deinstitutionalization

The 'Stability of Cadres' and Institutionalization

(Mis-)alignment of Formal and Informal Hierarchies

The Zeta-Ratio of (De)institutionalization

The Influence of Individual Offices and Officeholders

Regime Deinstitutionalization over Time

5: Tandemology: The Problem of Succession and Permanency in Office

The Problem of Succession and Term Limits.

Political Rhetoric of President and Prime Minister

Regional Governors and Regional Legislative Addresses

How Elites Assessed Power in Tandem

6: Personalization in the Media and Rhetoric

Understanding Regime Personalization in the Media

Rhetoric and Regime Personalization

7: Conclusions and Implications for the Study of Russia and Personalist Regimes

The Four Pillars of Personalization in Russia

Implications for the Study of Personalist Regimes

Personalism versus Personalist Dictatorship

Personalization versus Regime Transition

Informal Power Relations versus Formal Institutions

The New Kremlinology: The Study of Personalism

Implications for Russian Politics

Appendix A

Further Details on the Patronage Data

Further Details on the Expert Survey of Political Influence

Coding and Aggregation of Political Offices

The Zeta-Ratio of Institutionalization: Model Specification

Text Corpus of Regional and Federal Addresses, 2009-13

References

Index.

Notes:

This edition also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-205) and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version :

ISBN:

0-19-264993-0

0-19-191867-9

0-19-264992-2

OCLC:

1280067841