Reluctant cooptation: The legislative recruitment of the private sector into Russia’s dominant party, 2015–2020
Timofei Mikhasev,
Grigorii V Golosov
Abstract:Cooptation is one of the most efficient strategies employed by authoritarian regimes and their leaders in order to survive in power. In most of these regimes, dominant pro-government parties serve as important tools of cooptation in general and of legislative recruitment, as one of its forms, in particular. The main thesis of this study is that cooptation is selective. When contrasted to the social sectors that are directly linked to the state, the private sector will be at a relative disadvantage, resulting i… Show more
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