PSC 1001 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Electoral Fraud, United Russia, Dmitry Medvedev
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Russia is a federal system system inherited from ussr without any clear sense of how power should be distributed between federal government and the regions central government dominates sub-national units. 83 regions, like a state system federally only in name constant fight over power between central and regional constitution vague on policy issues. Putin focused on restoring power of russian central government, eliminated special privileges president determines who serves as governor. Elections originally elections to duma took place using mixed electoral system system produced elections with large numbers of independents or non-party candidates winning. Liberal democratic party: nationalist party with close relationship with kremlin throughout post-communist era. Communist party of russian federation: successor to the communist party of soviet union, leftist nationalist political party that has formed principal opposition for most of the communist era. Agrarian party: leftist party represented russian peasants and merged with the ruling united. 1999 parliamentary elections affected by 2 national security crises.
