Crafting Authoritarian Politics

虽然俄罗斯名义上是一个民主国家，但专制主义的元素仍然占主导地位。 该项目探讨了俄罗斯如何在代议制民主中容纳这些专制主题，并更普遍地寻求对后共产主义社会民主化进程的新认识。 俄罗斯是世界上人口第八大国家，国内生产总值第十一大经济体;它仍然拥有核武器。 了解俄罗斯民主化的动态对世界上大部分地区的政治稳定有影响，这些地区目前正处于从威权主义向民主的过渡时期。

Although Russia is nominally a democracy, strong elements of authoritarianism remain dominant. This project examines how Russia has accommodated these authoritarian themes within a representative democracy and, more generally, seeks to shed new light on the process of democratization in postcommunist societies. Russia is the 8th largest country in the world by population and the 11th largest economy based on GDP; it also remains nuclear-armed. Understanding the dynamics of democratization in Russia has implications for political stability across a large section of the world which is currently in transition from authoritarianism to democracy.