CPO 3633 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Boris Nemtsov, Kompromat, Sodium Hydride
23 Oct 2017
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Can"t decree taxation, structure or power, duma elections, government land ect: veto, can be overridden by the congress ( support) Why: uncertainty and trauma of 1993, duma"s mixed electoral system (1993-2003, party-lost pr, single member-district plurality, big four negotiations and roundtable consultations , 70-75% acceptance of duma bills in the 1990s. Power of the federation council: changing composition (1993 and 1995, two representatives for region. They"re like the senate: mandates are for 2 years. From formal to informal (breslauer 1999: patriarchalism v personalism, is patriarchalism necessarily corrupt and tyrannical, nah he can be generous and forgiving but he"s just the head of the family, is it unique to russia, six yeltsin"s . Yeltsin"s rule as patriarchalism: evidence, sverdlovsk, rules person, gaidar, chubais, nemtsov v yavlinskii, first few were part of the inner circle and left but did not oppose them.
