Crafting Authoritarian Politics

尽管俄罗斯名义上是一个民主国家，但强大的威权主义因素仍然占据主导地位。这个项目考察了俄罗斯如何在代议制民主中容纳这些威权主题，更广泛地说，试图揭示后共产主义社会的民主化进程。按人口计算，俄罗斯是世界第八大国家；按GDP计算，俄罗斯是第11大经济体；它仍然拥有核武器。了解俄罗斯民主化的动态对目前正处于从威权主义向民主过渡的世界大部分地区的政治稳定具有重要意义。

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.