Russia transformed : developing popular support for a new regime /
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| Other Authors / Creators: | Mishler, William, 1947- Munro, Neil, 1970- |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Imprint: | Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [2006] |
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Table of Contents:
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Transformation and its aftermath
- Transforming institutions and popular support
- Top-down and bottom-up approaches to transformation
- Analyzing regime support
- 1. Time matters: the dynamics of regime support
- Maintaining support within a steady-state regime
- Dynamic challenges
- Political re-learning in a new regime
- 2. The supply of regimes: democratic and autocratic
- Defining regimes in two dimensions
- Differentiating regimes that elites supply
- Contrasting dynamics of regimes
- 3. A changing supply of Russian regimes
- An alternation of despotisms
- Mass response: coexisting with despotism
- From reform to transformation and a new equilibrium?
- 4. Uncertainties of transformation: a view from the bottom
- From controlled to free inquiry
- Values amidst uncertainty
- Coping strategies
- 5. Changing levels of regime support
- Variable support for the regime as it is
- Dispersed support for alternative regimes
- Theories of why Russians differ
- 6. Social structure and the evaluation of regimes
- Social differences are inevitable; their influence is not
- Individuals age and society rejuvenates
- Combining the effects of social structure
- 7. The influence of political values and performance
- Democracy an ideal, not the Russian reality
- The legacy of the past
- Performance of a plebiscitarian regime
- Political performance matters
- 8. Finding the economic influences that matter
- Downs and ups of the national economy
- Downs and ups of the household economy
- Politics pervasive; economic influences contingent
- 9. The impact of the passage of time
- Stable and variable influences
- Expectations encourage resigned acceptance
- The cumulative impact of inertia
- 10. What could challenge the new equilibrium?
- Likelihoods and uncertainties
- Risks
- 2008: changing leaders or changing regimes?
- Appendix A. New Russia Barometer samples
- Appendix B. Coding of variables
- References
- Index