Russian Political Parties and the `Bosses'

Golosov, Grigorii V.

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“…In recent years there has been increasing debate over the development of 'parties' in post-communist Russian politics (Fish, 1995a(Fish, , 1995b(Fish, , 1997Gel'man and Golosov, 1998;Golosov, 1995Golosov, , 1997Golosov, , 1998Haspel et ai., 1998;Ishiyama, 1996Ishiyama, , 1998Ishiyama, , 1999aLowenhardt, 1998;McFaul and Markov, 1993;McFaul and Petrov, 1995;Moser, 1998Moser, , 1999Pashentsev, 1999;Smith, 1995, 1998). As some scholars have noted, however, specific discussion of Russian parties in light of existing theories on party development, organization and behavior has been generally absent from the debate (Webb and Lewis, 1998: 261).…”

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Candidate Recruitment and the Development of Russian Political Parties, 1993-99

Ishiyama¹

2001

Party Politics

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This article tracks the candidate recruitment behavior of three continuous Russian parties across three State Duma elections from 1993 to 1999 - the KPRF, LDPR and Yabloko. These parties were selected for inclusion in this analysis because they were the only Russian parties successfully to contest all three parliamentary elections in the 1990s. There are three principal findings: (1) all three parties exhibited a trend towards recruiting more elite candidates to stand for election, especially in rural districts, and this is most pronounced in the case of the KPRF and LDPR; (2) the differences between parties in terms of recruiting elite candidates to stand for district elections has lessened over time; (3) not all parties `recognize' their constituencies; only the KPRF has concentrated its nominations in districts where its voter support is strongest.

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Candidate Recruitment and the Development of Russian Political Parties, 1993-99

Ishiyama¹

2001

Party Politics

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The Representation of Ethnic Muslims in Russia's Regional Legislative Assemblies

Golosov

2012

Journal of Eurasian Studies

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This article uses the data of the 2002 national census and a comprehensive dataset of the December 2003–March 2008 regional legislative elections in Russia to assess the levels of the representation of ethnic Muslims in the regional legislative assemblies. The study reveals that the overall pattern of the representation of ethnic Muslims in Russia's regional legislative assemblies is not monotonous. Ethnic Muslims are significantly overrepresented in those republics where they are ‘titular’ nationalities; they tend to be underrepresented in a group of regions with significant ethnic Muslim minorities; but as their share in the overall population goes down, the picture becomes more balanced, so that it would be fair to say that small Muslim minorities are quite well represented. The article explains the observed patterns with reference to the logic of non-politicization of cleavages shared by all types of regions. For the ruling elites of Muslim-majority republics, the preferred mode of operation is to keep the overrepresentation of Muslims as a characteristic of all political groups who can realistically claim access to power. For the predominantly Russian elites of regions with significant ethnic Muslim minorities, the non-politicization of cleavages is a way to make electoral appeals to wider general population. In the regions with small ethnic Muslim minorities, their entry into political arenas is conditional on individual or group alliances with locally dominant elite groups, without any articulation of ethnicity/religion cleavages whatsoever.

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Party support or personal resources? Factors of success in the plurality portion of the 1999 national legislative elections in Russia

Golosov

2002

Communist and Post-Communist Studies

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The paper estimates party-related and non-party-related factors of electoral success in single-member district elections to the Russian State Duma in December 1999. As demonstrated by the analysis, both kinds of factors facilitate candidates’ performance, but the utility of personal political resources of non-electoral origins is greater than that of party support. Thus it is likely to be valued by Russian politicians as a supplement, not as a core component of their electoral strategies. By distorting the structure of incentives for elite partisanship, this situation conserves party system underdevelopment in the country.

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Russian Political Parties and the `Bosses'

Cited by 57 publications

References 34 publications

Candidate Recruitment and the Development of Russian Political Parties, 1993-99

Candidate Recruitment and the Development of Russian Political Parties, 1993-99

The Representation of Ethnic Muslims in Russia's Regional Legislative Assemblies

Party support or personal resources? Factors of success in the plurality portion of the 1999 national legislative elections in Russia

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