CPO 3633 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Election Threshold, Segodnya, Silovik
23 Oct 2017
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Effects of federal districts: ending the war of las and bilateral treaties, (initially, empty); threats of gubernatorial removal, kremlin influence over gubernatorial elections, signaling vulnerability, not controlling outcomes. The federation council: from assumed positions (1995) to appointees (july 2000, official and unofficial explanations. Less efficient: institutional attempts to increase efficiency, duma leadership (unity, communists, people"s deputies, russia"s. Regions: coordinating council (unity, ovr, people"s deputies, russia"s. Dirty af election that leads to the supreme court who gives westy an opening: tulip revolution, kyrgyzstan 2005, another boi byed dictator, are these developments independent of one another? (galton"s problem) Beissinger: modular revolutions: if you look there"s similar features that link them up, massive mobilization in response to fraudulent elections, non-violent resistance, foreign support, radical youth movements, united oppositions, external pressure and election monitoring. Opposition tactics by societal groups: what tactics and why, national bolshevik party, more moderate now.
