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Power and Legitimacy : Challenges from Russia /

This book sheds new light on the continuing debate within political thought as to what constitutes power, and what distinguishes legitimate from illegitimate power. It does so by considering the experience of Russia, a polity where experiences of the legitimacy of power and the collapse of power off...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Bodin, Per-Arne, 1949-, Hedlund, Stefan, 1953-, Namli, Elena
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: LONDON : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2013.
Colección:Routledge contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe series ; 39.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Dimensions of Russia: developments after the USSR / Klaus von Beyme
  • Never show weakness : how faking autocracy legitimates Putin's hold on power / Stephen Holmes
  • Legitimizing the Russian executive : identity, technocracy, and performance / Eugene Huskey
  • Legitimacy of power and security of property / Stefan Hedlund
  • Capitalism and Russian democracy / Boris Kapustin
  • Democracy in Russia : problems of legitimacy / Boris V. Mezhuev
  • Power and society in Russia : a value approach to legitimacy / Ruben Apressyan
  • Powerful rationality or rationality of power? : reflections on Russian scepticism towards human rights / Elena Namli
  • The "cultural/civilizational turn" in post-Soviet identity building / Jutta Scherrer
  • Conservative political romanticism in post-Soviet Russia / Andrey Medushevsky
  • "Bez stali i leni" : Aesopian language and legitimacy / Irina Sandomirskaia
  • Medvedev's new media gambit : the language of power in 140 characters or less / Michael S. Gorham
  • Legitimacy and symphony : on the relation between state and Church in post-Soviet Russia / Per-Arne Bodin
  • Concluding remarks / Per-Arne Bodin, Stefan Hedlund and Elena Namli
  • Index.