The Russian Presidency: Society and Politics in the Second Russian Republic

by Thomas M. Nichols

Book Overview

Why has Russian democracy apparently survived and even strengthened under a presidential system, when so many other presidential regimes have decayed into authoritarian rule? And what are the origins of presidential power in modern Russia? Thomas M. Nichols argues that the answer lies in the relationship between political institutions and trust: where society, and consequently politics, is fractious and divided, structural safeguards inherent in presidentialism...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312223579
• ISBN13: 9780312223571
• Release Date: December 1999
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 235 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.7" x 8.5"