Why Not Parties in Russia?: Democracy, Federalism, and the State

by Henry E. Hale

Book Overview

Russia poses a major puzzle for theorists of party development. Virtually every classic work takes parties to be inevitable and essential to electoral competition, but Russia remains highly nonpartisan more than fifteen years after Gorbachev first launched his democratizing reforms. The problem is that theories of party development lack a control case, almost always focusing on cases where parties have already developed and almost never examining...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521718031
• ISBN13: 9780521718035
• Release Date: October 2007
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.1"