The puzzle of Putin's gubernatorial appointments

Goode, J. Paul

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“…Yet while depriving the governors of the principal source of their legitimacy and making their political survival explicitly contingent upon their loyalty to the federal authorities, the Kremlin abandoned one of the original goals of electoral reform, circumscribing gubernatorial power. Most of the governors were comfortably reappointed by Putin in (Goode, 2007. While exposed to the risks of disloyalty to the federal authorities, the governors retained their immunity from the risks posed by regional politics.…”

Section: Russia's Governors On the Route To Authoritarian Incorporationmentioning

confidence: 97%

Federalism, gubernatorial power and the incorporation of subnational authoritarianism in Russia: A theory-testing empirical inquiry

Demchenko

Golosov

2015

Acta Polit

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This article investigates the complex relationship between federalism and electoral authoritarianism by making an empirical inquiry into the structure of incentives that shaped the reform of Russia's regional election laws in [2004][2005][2006][2007][2008][2009]. The idea behind the reform was to make the incumbent governors more manageable and more dependent on the federal authorities. However, the process of its practical implementation largely coincided with Russia's transition to electoral authoritarianism, as a result of which this original intention was reversed by endowing regional authorities with an unrestricted effective power to determine the course of the reform. The main hypothesis of this study is that bounded only by the reform framework, the governors exerted their influence to maximize one of their main assets, the loyalty of the regional assembles. In order to substantiate this hypothesis empirically, a model formalizing the governors' optimization problem is constructed, its possible implications are discussed and their statistical support is examined. The results obtained support the theory according to which electoral authoritarianism, rather than simply suppressing the autonomy of most powerful subnational actors, incorporates them by expanding their effective control over the regional political arenas. The previously existing federal arrangements are instrumental in pursuing this goal.

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Section: Russia's Governors On the Route To Authoritarian Incorporationmentioning

confidence: 97%

Federalism, gubernatorial power and the incorporation of subnational authoritarianism in Russia: A theory-testing empirical inquiry

Demchenko

Golosov

2015

Acta Polit

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“…This is the rationale for the gubernatorial appointment system adopted by the state Duma, at Putin's urging, in the fall of 2004. While endowing the russian president with the sole right to nominate governors, this system also stipulated the confirmation of appointments by the regional legislature (Goode 2007), which is why the official discourse of the russian authorities sometimes referred to it as "elections." But it was not.…”

Section: Gubernatorial Electionsmentioning

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The 2012 Political Reform in Russia

Golosov

2012

Problems of Post-Communism

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“…Goode demonstrates how the justification arises from Russian traditions of national integration. 51) At that time, a substantive power integration was already achieved quite successfully, as exemplified by the fact that 88 percent of local executive heads belonged to United Russia. And contrary to general expectations, these local heads preferred the maintenance of the interest structure through an appointment system.…”

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Institutional Reform and Discourse on Democracy in Russia

2010

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This study examines the effects of ideas on the process of institutional reform, with a particular focus on Russian case. In explaining the interaction between institutional reform and ideas, I rely on the concept of "Knightian uncertainty" proposed by Blyth. In order to examine Russia's discourse on democracy, I mainly focus on the concept of sovereign democracy. The concept of sovereign democracy demonstrates how the international norm of democracy has been adapted by the domestic contexts in Russia. This is manifested as a reinterpretation of the concept of democracy in the context of Russian history, which is distinguished from that of Western liberal democracies. The concept of sovereign democracy also allows for an interpretation of the crisis situations. The central argument of the proponents of sovereign democracy with regard to the international political situation can be

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The puzzle of Putin's gubernatorial appointments

Cited by 60 publications

References 25 publications

Federalism, gubernatorial power and the incorporation of subnational authoritarianism in Russia: A theory-testing empirical inquiry

Federalism, gubernatorial power and the incorporation of subnational authoritarianism in Russia: A theory-testing empirical inquiry

The 2012 Political Reform in Russia

Institutional Reform and Discourse on Democracy in Russia

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