Democracy Derailed in Russia

The Failure of Open Politics

By:

M.Steven Fish

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics

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Why has democracy failed to take root in Russia? After shedding the shackles of Soviet rule, some countries in the postcommunist region undertook lasting democratization. Yet Russia did not. Russia experienced dramatic political breakthroughs in the late 1980s and early 1990s, but it subsequently failed to maintain progress toward democracy. In this book, M. Steven Fish offers an explanation for the direction of regime change in post-Soviet Russia. Relying on cross-national comparative analysis as well as on in-depth field research in Russia, Fish shows that Russia's failure to democratize has three causes: too much economic reliance on oil, too little economic liberalization, and too weak a national legislature. Fish's explanation challenges others that have attributed Russia's political travails to history, political culture, or to 'shock therapy' in economic policy. The book offers a theoretically original and empirically rigorous explanation for one of the most pressing political problems of our time.

Author Biography:

M. Steven Fish is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of California -Berkeley. In 2000-2001 he was a Fulbright fellow and Visiting Professor of Political Science and Sociology at the European University at St. Petersburg. He is the author of Democracy from Scratch: Opposition and Regime in the New Russian Revolution (Princeton University Press, 1995) and a co-author of Postcommunism and the Theory of Democracy (Princeton University Press, 2001). He has published articles in Comparative Political Studies, East European Constitutional Review, East European Politics and Societies, Europe-Asia Studies, Journal of Democracy, Post-Soviet Affairs, Slavic Review, World Politics, and numerous edited volumes.

Release date Australia

August 29th, 2005

Author

M.Steven Fish

Series

Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics

Pages

336

Audiences

Professional & Vocational
Tertiary Education (US: College)

Illustrations

42 Tables, unspecified; 28 Line drawings, unspecified

Dimensions

152x228x19

ISBN-13

9780521618960

Product ID

1771081

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