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SECOND EUROPE-ASIA LECTURE: Regime Transition, Uncertainty and Prospects for Democratisation: The Politics of Russia's Regions in a Comparative Perspective

SECOND EUROPE-ASIA LECTURE: Regime Transition, Uncertainty and Prospects for Democratisation: The... EUROPE-ASIA STUDIES, Vol. 51, No. 6, 1999, 939±956 SECOND EUROPE-ASIA LECTURE* Regime Transition, Uncertainty and Prospects for Democratisation: The Politics of Russia’ s Regions in a Comparative Perspective VLADIMIR GEL’ MAN Is democracy developing in Russia’ s regions? FOR MOST WESTERN AND RUSSIAN SCHOLARS who have observed recent political devel- opments in Russia, the evaluation of the Russian political regime as something `between authoritarianism and democracy’ is common. A number of designations employing `quasi’ , `semi’ , `pseudo’ , `proto’ and other `democracies’ with descriptive adjectives to qualify evaluations of democratic development have been widely used during the past several years to describe Russia’ s political regime. How relevant are these approaches for analysing democratisation in Russia? It is impossible to provide a complete answer to this question concerning Russian politics without taking a comparative perspective. The comparative-oriented approach to the study of national politics has two different, although overlapping, dimensions. First, widespread among political re- searchers are cross-national (i.e. international) comparisons. There are a number of books and journal articles that, to varying degrees, compare the experiences of Russia and Eastern Europe, Latin America and Southern Europe as they make (or made) the transition from authoritarian regimes. Although http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Europe-Asia Studies Taylor & Francis

SECOND EUROPE-ASIA LECTURE: Regime Transition, Uncertainty and Prospects for Democratisation: The Politics of Russia's Regions in a Comparative Perspective

Gel'Man, Vladimir
Europe-Asia Studies , Volume 51 (6): 18 – Sep 1, 1999
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EUROPE-ASIA STUDIES, Vol. 51, No. 6, 1999, 939±956 SECOND EUROPE-ASIA LECTURE* Regime Transition, Uncertainty and Prospects for Democratisation: The Politics of Russia’ s Regions in a Comparative Perspective VLADIMIR GEL’ MAN Is democracy developing in Russia’ s regions? FOR MOST WESTERN AND RUSSIAN SCHOLARS who have observed recent political devel- opments in Russia, the evaluation of the Russian political regime as something `between authoritarianism and democracy’ is common. A number of designations employing `quasi’ , `semi’ , `pseudo’ , `proto’ and other `democracies’ with descriptive adjectives to qualify evaluations of democratic development have been widely used during the past several years to describe Russia’ s political regime. How relevant are these approaches for analysing democratisation in Russia? It is impossible to provide a complete answer to this question concerning Russian politics without taking a comparative perspective. The comparative-oriented approach to the study of national politics has two different, although overlapping, dimensions. First, widespread among political re- searchers are cross-national (i.e. international) comparisons. There are a number of books and journal articles that, to varying degrees, compare the experiences of Russia and Eastern Europe, Latin America and Southern Europe as they make (or made) the transition from authoritarian regimes. Although

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