POL112H5 Study Guide - Final Guide: Electoral Fraud, Liberal Democracy, Revanchism
10 Dec 2016
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Authors consider russia as authoritarian but it falls into the gray area of a hybrid regime (elections, internet freedoms, etc. ) Putin does have genuine support a lot of people are pro-putin he"s a polarizing political figure both in russia and internationally. Evidence of ballot-stuffing in russia (video evidence) = delegitimizing and fraudulent. Lower level officials exaggerate the votes the benefit putin e. g. incidence of governor of a region losing his job because only 30% of the votes went to putin. More difficult to protest in russia today than in the past e. g. curfews people forced off the streets because of such restrictions. Russia depends on oil for its economy oil prices have dropped = lower/declining revenues. Reading: normal countries: the east 25 years after (shleifer and treisman) Post-communist countries are seen as failures (exceptions being poland and estonia) Economies struggling because of pensioners and oligarchies. Politics marred by ballot stuffing and emerging dictators.
