The uncertain future of Russia's weak state authoritarianism

East European Politics and Societies

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 67-81

  Hanson, Stephen E ^a  

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Author keywords

Authoritarianism; Europe; Putin; Russia; State

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846550631     PISSN: 08883254     EISSN: 15338371     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0888325406297130     Document Type: Article

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4. See, for instance, Peter Baker and Susan Glasser, Kremlin Rising: Vladimir Putin's Russia and the End of Revolution ( New York: Lisa Drew/Scribner, 2005 ).
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10. Stephen E. Hanson, "Defining Democratic Consolidation," in Richard Anderson Jr. et al., eds., Postcommunism and the Theory of Democracy (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001). 126-151 ; and Milada Vachudova, Europe Undivided: Democracy, Leverage, and Integration after Communism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005).
11. Max Weber, "The Types of Legitimate Domination," in Guenther Roth and Claus Wittich, eds., Economy and Society, vol. 1 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1978). 212-301.
12. Stephen E. Hanson, "The Dilemmas of Russia's Anti-revolutionary Revolution," Current History 100 (October 2001). 330-335.
13. World Bank Russia, Macroeconomic Indicators - Russian Federation, http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/COUNTRIES/ECAEXT/RUSSIANFEDERATIONEXTN/ 0,contentMDK:20452311%7EmenuPK:989684%7EpagePK:1497618%7EpiPK: 217854%7EtheSitePK:305600,00.html (accessed 17 August 2006).
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17. The ideas in this section were first developed in Stephen E. Hanson, "On 'Double Standards': Toward Strategic Liberalism in U.S. Russia Policy," Program on New Approaches to Russian Security Policy Memo no. 368 ( Washington, D.C., Center for Strategic and International Studies, 2005 ).
18. Indeed, such efforts would parallel a similar effort at ideological reformulation by Putin's aide Vladimir Surkov, who now refers to Russia's regime goal as "sovereign democracy." See in particular the February 2006 speech of Deputy Director of the Russian Presidential Administration Vladislav Surkov, reprinted as "General'naia Liniia," Moskovskie Novosti, 3-9 March 2006 and "General'naia Liniia," Moskovskie Novosti, 10-16, March 2006.