Russia's security-related decision-making: the case of Crimea
Journal: ANU Open Research (Australian National University)
Year: 2017

There are two big issues in the political science of post-communist transition. First, the relationship between rulers and ruled; second, governance arrangements within the executive. The first could be summed up as “politics,” the second as “policy.” The first has received the most attention: are regimes democratic, and if not what other feedback and accountability mechanisms exist? The general consensus is that post-Soviet Russia, particularly under Putin, is not democratic, in that – among ot