Title: The decline of regionalism in Putin's Russia
Description: "This book reassesses Putin's attempt to reverse the decentralization of power that characterised centre-regional relations in the 1990s, focusing on regional responses to Putin's federal reforms. It explains the decline of regionalism after 2000 in terms of the dynamics of regional boundaries, understood as the juridical boundaries which demarcate a region's territorial extent and its resources; institutional boundaries that sustain regional differences; and cultural boundaries that define the ethnic or technocratic principles on which a region could claim legitimate existence.The book questions the conventional wisdom regarding the success of Putin's regime. It shows how regional governors responded not by attempting to deflect the reforms with outright resistance, but by mimicking Putin's centralisation of power at the regional level. In turn, this facilitated the homogenisation of regional political regimes and regional mergers. The book demonstrates how the reordering of regions advanced sporadically, how pockets of resistance persist, and how the potential for the revival of regionalism continues"--
Subjects: Politics and government, Central-local government relations, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / Local, Ethnic relations, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / General, Social conditions, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / State & Provincial, Regionalism, Russia (federation), politics and government, Putin, vladimir vladimirovich, 1952-, Régionalisme, Relations gouvernement central-collectivités locales, Conditions sociales, POLITICAL SCIENCE, Government, State & Provincial, Local, SOCIAL SCIENCE, Ethnic Studies, General, Civics & Citizenship, Regionalismus, Reform, Souveränität, Etniska relationer, Politik och förvaltning
Places: Russia (Federation)
People: Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (1952-)
Time periods: 1991-