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This book helps to understand in which ways local governing elites are important for the success or failure of national democratic development. Although we know

Investigates how elites have affected democratic development in Russia and how they influence the consolidation of the emerging political regime and post-commun

The transformation from Communist rule towards democratic development in Russia cannot be fully understood without taking the elites into full consideration. El

This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. Building on earlier work, this text combines theoretica

Russia today represents one of the major examples of the phenomenon of "electoral authoritarianism" which is characterized by adopting the trappings of democrat