Vladimir Putin
Year: 2021

Vladimir Putin has developed and consolidated a personalist political regime that incorporates every key formal feature of liberal democracy while also virtually eliminating the chance that the Putin network can be removed from power by electoral xxixmeans. Putin and his allies have captured the administrative machinery of the Russian state and in the process created a hybrid post-Communist party-state – a “neo-patrimonial façade democracy.” The essay argues that the structure and functioning of