Power and legitimacy
Subtitle: challenges from Russia
By: editors Per-Arne Bodin, Stefan Hedlund, Elena Namli
Series: Routledge contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe series -- 39; Routledge contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe series -- 39.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9780415677769; 9780203108772
Copyright date: 2012
Subjects: Legitimacy of governments; Politics and government; Executive power; Power (Social sciences)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Dimensions of Russia: developments after the USSR / Klaus von Beyme; title: Never show weakness: how faking autocracy legitimates Putin's hold on power / Stephen Holmes; title: Legitimizing the Russian executive: identity, technocracy, and performance / Eugene Huskey; title: Legitimacy of power and security of property / Stefan Hedlund; title: Capitalism and Russian democracy / Boris Kapustin; title: Democracy in Russia: problems of legitimacy / Boris Mezhuev; title: Power and society in Russia: a value approach to legitimacy / Ruben Apressyan; title: Powerful rationality or rationality of power?: reflections on Russian scepticism towards human rights / Elena Namli; title: The "cultural/civilizational turn" in post-Soviet identity building / Jutta Scherrer; title: Conservative political romanticism in post-Soviet Russia / Andrey Medushevsky; title: Bez stali i leni: aesopian language and legitimacy / Irina Sandomirskaia; title: Medvedev's new media gambit: the language of power in 140 characters or less / Michael Gorham; title: Legitimacy and symphony: on the relation between state and church in post-Soviet Russia / Per-Arne Bodin.