Russian politics under Putin

Abstract

Leadership and Regime Change 1: Vladimir Putin's leadership in comparative perspective - Archie Brown 2: Regime change from Yeltsin to Putin: normality, normalcy or normalisation? - Richard Sakwa Political parties and democratisation 3: Russia's law on political parties: democracy by decree? - Edwin Bacon 4: The Putin paradigm and the cowering of Russia's communists - Luke March 5: Russia's disempowered electorate - Stephen White Economy and society 6: The economic legacy: what Putin had to deal with and the way forward - David Lane 7: The Russian economy under Vladimir Putin - William Tompson 8: Politics and the mass media under Putin - Laura Belin Regional politics 9: Putin's federal reforms - Cameron Ross 10: Measuring and explaining variations in Russian regional democratisation - Christopher Marsh 11: Regional elections and democratisation in Russia - Valentin Mikhailov Foreign policy 12: Russian foreign policy under Putin - Dmitry Polikanov and Graham Timmins 13: Russian foreign policy towards the European Union - Jackie Gower 14: Russia and Chechnya - Mike Bowker 15: Russian foreign policy: the CIS and the Baltic States - Ella Akerman and Graeme P. Herd -- .