Faculty Journal Articles and Book Chapters
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Abstract
Combining the approaches of three fields of scholarship - political science, law and Russian area studies - the author of this 2002 Oxford University Press book explores the foundations and future of the Russian Federation. Russia's political elite have struggled to build an extraordinarily complex federal system, one that incorporates eighty-nine different units and scores of different ethnic groups, which sometimes harbor long histories of resentment against Russian imperial and Soviet legacies. This book examines the public debates, official documents and political deals that built Russia's federal house on very unsteady foundations, often out of the ideological, conceptual and physical rubble of the ancien régime. One of the major goals of this book is, where appropriate, to bring together the insights of comparative law and comparative politics in the study of the development of Russia's attempt to create - as its constitution states in the very first article - a 'democratic, federal, rule-of-law state'.
Document Type
Article
Keywords
Russia, Federalism, Democratization, Comparative Law, Comparative Politics
Recommended Citation
Jeffrey Kahn, Federalism, Democratization, and the Rule of Law in Russia, 2002, available at https://ssrn.com/abstract=1011829
