HOW RUSSIA VOTES
| Title: | HOW RUSSIA VOTES |
| Author: | STEPHEN WHITE, RICHARD ROSE, IAN McALLISTER |
| Description: | Chatham House Publishers, Inc. Introduction: Coming Late to Free Elections Significance of Russian Elections Objectives of the Book Acknowledgements 1 Elections Soviet Style The Significance of Choice and Accountability The Marxist-Leninist Inheritance A Negotiated Relationship 2 Opening Pandora's Box: The First Competitive Elections Electing the USSR Congress of Deputies in 1989 Elections in the Republics in 1990 Electing a Russian President in 1991 3 What Can Influence Russian Voters? Political Attitudes in Postcommunist Russia Economic Influences in Postcommunist Russia Social Structure 4 Referendum or Opinion Poll? The Referendum in Soviet Political Thought The Soviet and Russian Referendums of March, 1991 The Russian Referendum of April, 1993 Voting in the April Referendum 5 A Weak Yes for a Constitution Toward a New Russian Constitution The October Crisis and a Draft Constitution Voting and Voters in the December Referendum 6 Electing a Parliament The Contenders The Campaign The Results 7 Mobilizing Demobilized Russians The Absence of Party Identification Who Supports Which Party? Patterns of Party Competition 8 Boris Yeltsin and the Russian Presidency The Emergence of a Russian Presidency The Yeltsin Presidency Russians and the Yeltsin Presidency 9 Taking Positions for the 1995 Duma Election Policies and Politics Forming, Reforming, and Abandoning Parties Negotiating the Election Law 10 The 1995 Duma Campaign Parties as Irrational Actors Parties and Candidates The Media Campaign 11 Russians Vote Against Consequences of Irrational Parties Profiles of Party Voters Interpretating the Results 12 Competition between Regimes: Yeltsin vs. Zyuganov A Competitive but Not Consolidated Democracy A Polarizing Campaign Finishing First - Barely A Forced Choice No Turning Back Appendix A. The Surveys New Russia Barometer II New Russia Barometer III New Russia Barometer V Appendix B. Definitions of Variables Political Attitudes Economic Attitudes Social Structure Appendix C. Methods 72 Tables and Figures |
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