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The Putin predicament : problems of legitimacy and succession in Russia /
"Using the Russian president's major public addresses as the main source, Bo Petersson analyzes the legitimization strategies employed during Vladimir Putin's third and fourth terms in office. The argument is that these strategies have rested on Putin's highly personalized blend...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Stuttgart :
Ibidem Verlag,
[2021]
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| Colección: | Soviet and post-Soviet politics and society ;
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Foreword / by J. Paul Goode
- Preface and acknowledgments
- Introduction. The ratings problem ; Main material ; Delimitations ; Transliteration of Russian words and names
- Theoretical points of orientation. Political succession ; Legitimacy ; Legitimacy in non-democratic states ; Charisma and routinization ; Legitimacy and political myth
- Legitimizing Putin. The 2011-2012 legitimation crisis ; Re-legitimization : Ukraine and the annexation of Crimea ; Strength and stability ; The great power myth ; Getting out of troubles : the smuta myth ; Dynamic interplay : the phoenix myth ; The bulwark and its champion ; The man of action ; Great communicator, benevolent ruler ; Putin the populist ; Putin the common Russian
- Legitimacy through othering. Othering and Russia ; Relations with the United States ; Dealing with Trump ; Enter Joe Biden ; No more the underdog ; Paradigm shift and saber-rattling
- Challenges from within. Electoral authoritarianism in Russia ; The presidential elections of 2018 ; The Navalny challenge ; Medvedev's downfall ; Navalny vs. Putin ; The fall guy function ; Stability and order ; The good tsar
- Challenge from without. The corona crisis : devolving power ; Entering center stage--and exiting again ; The Sputnik V vaccine ; Faring better than the West? ; Skewing the statistics ; The pandemic and the image
- The succession issue. Looking to the East? ; Guarantor of the constitution? ; Successions in the Russian post-Soviet past ; Post-Soviet precedents ; Postponing the succession : the constitutional reform
- Conclusion.