Federalism, Democratization, and the Rule of Law in Russia

by Kahn, Jeffrey

• ISBN13: 9780199246991
• ISBN10: 0199246998
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-08-15
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Combining the approaches of three fields of scholarship - political science, law and Russian area- tudies - the author explores the foundations and future of the Russian Federation.NB Russia's political elite have struggled to build an extraordinarily complex federal system, one thatincorporates eighty-nine different units and scores of different ethnic groups, which sometimes harbor long histories of resentment against Russian imperial and Soviet legacies.NB This book examines the public debates, official documents and political deals that built Russia's federal house on veryunsteady foundations, often out of the ideological, conceptual and physical rubble of the ancien regime. 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 attempts tocreate - as its constitution states in the very first article - a 'Democratic, federal, rule-of-law state'

Table of Contents

Federalism, Democratization, and the Rule of Law in Russia	p. i
Federalism, Democratization, and the Rule of Law in Russia	p. iii
Acknowledgements	p. vii
List of Tables	p. x
List of Maps and Figures	p. xi
List of Abbreviations and Glossary	p. xii
Introduction	p. 1
Federal Theory	p. 18
Soviet 'Federalism'	p. 69
Gorbachev's Federalism Problem	p. 83
The Process of Federal Transition	p. 102
Inter-Governmental Relations Under Yeltsin's New Federalism	p. 142
Federal Effects on Transitions in Russia's Republics	p. 189
The Federal Reforms of Vladimir Putin	p. 234
Conclusion	p. 279
Bibliography	p. 285
Statutes, Decrees and Constitutional Court Decisions	p. 313
Index	p. 321
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