Introduction: the need for popular support; 1. Democratic and undemocratic models of support; 2. Changing the supply of regimes; 3. Putin consolidates a new regime; 4. Increasing support for an undemocratic regime; 5. Individual influences on regime support; 6. Time tells: there is no alternative; 7. Finessing the challenge of succession; 8. The challenge of economic reversal; 9. Maintaining a regime: democratic or otherwise.
Introduction: the need for popular support; 1. Democratic and undemocratic models of support; 2. Changing the supply of regimes; 3. Putin consolidates a new regime; 4. Increasing support for an undemocratic regime; 5. Individual influences on regime support; 6. Time tells: there is no alternative; 7. Finessing the challenge of succession; 8. The challenge of economic reversal; 9. Maintaining a regime: democratic or otherwise.
A unique study of how popular support can grow when governors reject democracy and create an undemocratic regime.
Richard Rose is Director of the Centre for the Study of Public Policy and Sixth Century Professor of Politics at the University of Aberdeen. William Mishler is Professor of Government and Public Policy at the University of Arizona, Visiting Professor of Political Science at the University of Aberdeen, and co-editor of the Journal of Politics. Neil Munro is currently a visiting lecturer in the Department of Asian Studies at the University of Edinburgh and was formerly a senior research fellow in the Centre for the Study of Public Policy at the University of Aberdeen.
'Popular Support for an Undemocratic Regime is a sophisticated
examination of a fundamental question facing analysts of Russian
politics, and indeed of other semi-authoritarian systems: what
happens when the rulers supply the regime that the people are asked
to support? This book is essential reading for all those in
comparative politics concerned with the persistence of undemocratic
regimes.' Richard Sakwa, University of Kent
'Nowhere is widespread citizen support for democracy more critical
than in Russia. Using the unique New Russia Barometer, this
path-breaking book charts popular support for democracy in Russia
from the collapse of communism to the present day. Rose, Mishler
and Munro tell us much about Russian political attitudes in the
past - and about their trajectories in the future.' Ian McAllister,
Australian National University
'For 18 years, Richard Rose and colleagues have surveyed Russian
citizens on their political attitudes. In this masterful overview,
they probe the data to explain why support for the existing system
of government has grown. They show that, contrary to some accounts,
Russians want democracy, recognize the defects of their current
regime, yet have been reconciled to it by the dramatic economic
gains of recent years along with the passage of time. Lucidly
written and erudite, the book will provoke and inform future
debates about public opinion in the postcommunist world.' Daniel
Treisman, University of California, Los Angeles, and author of The
Return: Russia's Journey from Gorbachev to Medvedev
'The surveys cited in this tantalizing book note a gap between
support for Putin personally and for the regime …' Edwin Bacon,
International Affairs
'The book is strongest and most informative with respect to the
indexes constructed on regime support … includes some general
background of recent Russian political history … such discussion
makes the book more appealing to a wider range of readers. The work
will be useful to the debate on the evolution of democracy and the
current political situation in Russia.' Europe-Asia Studies
'This fascinating study seeks to answer two key questions: why do
undemocratic regimes persist and why did support for Putin's regime
increase while Russia itself became less democratic? … That the
Russian system today may be 'more typical of how the world's
peoples are governed than are Anglo-American democracies gives this
study a wider scholarly significance than one that simply focuses
on a single country, important as that country may be.' David
White, Political Studies Review
'The authors provide a highly readable, sweeping panorama of the
dynamics of Russian politics in the Yeltsin and Putin era. Acta
Politica
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