Is Russia becoming a normal society?

Demokratizatsiya

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 75-86

  Rose, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Normal; Order; Patience; Public opinion; Russia; Society

Indexed keywords

CORRUPTION; CULTURAL CHANGE; GEOGRAPHICAL RESEARCH; SOCIAL THEORY; UNEMPLOYMENT;

EURASIA; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

EID: 42549121657     PISSN: 10746846     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3200/DEMO.16.1.75-86     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. Edward Keenan, "Muscovite Political Folkways," The Russian Review, 45 (April 1986): 115-81
2. Tim McDaniel, The Agony of the Russian Idea (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996)
3. Harry Eckstein, F. J. Fleron, E. P. Hoffmann, and W. M. Reisinger, Can Democracy Take Root in Post-Soviet Russia? Explorations in State-Society Relations (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 1998).
4. Richard Rose, "Russia as an Hour-Glass Society: A Constitution without Citizens," East European Constitutional Review 4, no. 3 (1995): 34-42.
5. Vladimir Shlapentokh, A Normal Totalitarian Society: How the Soviet Union Functioned and How It Collapsed (Armonk, NY. M. E. Sharpe, 2001), xi.
6. Richard Rose, "Uses of Social Capital in Russia: Modern, Pre-Modern and Anti-Modern," Post-Soviet Affairs 16, no. 1 (2000) 33-57
7. Natalia Tchernina, "Rising Unemployment and Coping Strategies," in The Mortality Crisis in Transitional Economies, ed. G. A. Comia and R. Paniccià, 151-73 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000).
8. See Richard Rose and Martin Bobak, "Stresses and Opportunities of Post-Communist Transformation: The Impact on Health," Aberdeen Studies in Public Policy no. 432, 2007.
9. Ellen Camaghan, Out of Order: Russian Political Values in an Imperfect World (State College: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2007).
10. For details see www.abdn.ac.uk/cspp/barometers (accessed December 2, 2007)
11. Richard Rose, The Climax of the Putin Years: New Russia Barometer XV (Aberdeen, UK: Centre for the Study of Public Policy, 2007).
12. Carnaghan, Out of Order: Russian Political Values in an Imper ect World, 156.
13. EBRD (European Bank for Reconstruction and Development), Transition Report 2006: Finance in Transition. (London: EBRD, 2006).
14. William Mishler and Richard Rose, "Generation, Age and Time: The Dynamics of Political Learning through Russia's Transformation," American Journal of Political Science 51, no. 4 (2007): 822-34.
15. Among those under the age of thirty, 20 percent indicated that they had no need to adapt; for them, the Soviet Union was not normal but part of history. By contrast, among those over forty, 10 percent have managed to ignore the great upheavals of society, saying they live as before the breakup of the Soviet system.
16. Luiz Pereira, Carlos Bresser, Jose Maria Maravall, and Adam Przeworski, Economic Reforms in New Democracies: A Social-Democratic Approach (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993).
17. Richard Rose and William Mishler, "Political Corruption: The Gap between Perception and Experience," Aberdeen Studies in Public Policy no. 432, 2007.
18. Vladimir Shlapentokh, "Russian Patience: A Reasonable Behaviour and a Social Strategy," Archives Européennes de Sociologie 36, no. 2, (1995): 247-80
19. Richard Rose, "How Patient Are People in Post-Communist Societies?", World Affairs 159, no. 3 (1996): 130-44.
20. Richard Rose, William Mishler, and Neil Munro, Russia Transformed: Developing Popular Support for a New Regime (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006), 1.
21. Joel S. Hellman, "Winners Take All: The Politics of Partial Reform in Postcommunist Transitions," World Politics 50, no. 2 (1998): 203-34.
22. Because future expectations about normality are not linear, the statistical analysis of influences was conducted by multiple discriminant function analysis.