Voting for Russia's Governors
Subtitle: Regional Elections and Accountability under Yeltsin and Putin (Woodrow Wilson Center Press)
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: January 9, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780801882999
Subjects: Elections & referenda; Local government; 21st century; c 1990 to c 2000; Political participation; Elections And Voting; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Voting; Politics/International Relations; Russia; Government - Comparative; Political Ideologies - Democracy; Political Process - Elections; Political Science / Foreign Legal Systems; Elections; Russia (Federation)
First sentence: On a crisp October day in 2000, a veteran of the Great Patriotic War entered his polling place in the city of Kursk, expecting to once again cast his vote for the region's popular and outspoken incumbent, Aleskandr Rutskoi.