TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hill, Ronald J.
AU  - Cappelli, Ottorino
TI  - Putin and Putinism
SN  - 9780415499866
U1  - 320.947 
PY  - 2010///
CY  - London
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Russia (Federation)
KW  - Politics and government
N1  - 1. Rus United; Castles; Leadership versus Ideology; State Mercantilism and the State-nation; Notes; 

2. Big Money as an Obstacle to Democracy in Russia; Introduction; The Standard of Living and Political Behaviour in Russia; Oil Prices and Changes in the Well-being of the Masses; The Official Policy of Encouraging an Easy and Merry Life; The De-democratization of Russian Society; The Friendly Passivity of the Masses. The Middle Class Does Not Support DemocracyBig Wealth and Democracy in Post-Soviet Russia; Reliance on the State Apparatus; Benefits and Perks; Private Business; The Permission of Corruption; 'Legal Nepotism'; Immunity Against Prosecution; The Apparatchiks' Style of Life; The State Apparatus: The Loyal Actor; The Yearning to Become a Bureaucrat; The Direct Effect of Money on Political Life; The Suborning of Intellectuals; Acknowledgment; Notes; 

3. Pre-Modern State-Building in Post-Soviet Russia; The State, History and Transitology; Bringing the State Back In --
Once Again. False Assumptions: Liberty versus the StateStateness: Definitions; Liberty and Stateness: A Matrix of the Political Space; Bringing History Back In --
How Far Back?; Historical Mapping; The Feudal Analogy; Yeltsin's Feudal Russia: Antecedents and Consequences; The oligarchs and the economy-politics nexus; The barons and centre-periphery relations; Putin: From Feudalism to Absolutism; An Authoritarian Ruler?; Putin as a Pre-Modern State Maker; The Absolutist Analogy; The Public-Private Nexus; Centre-Periphery Relations; Clientelism and Personal Power; Conclusion; Acknowledgements; Notes. 

4. Putin, Professional PoliticianPutin in Context; Putin's Political Choices; Facing the Business Challenge; Departure from the Soviet Social Contract; Building Russia as a Nation-State; An Assessment; Notes; 

5. The Russian Elite in Transition; Question: Could you say who were the people who created this power centre?; Question: Who was the ideologist, because none of them, so far as we can see, was a theorist or ideologist?; Notes; 

6. The Putin Phenomenon; Towards a Leadership Cult; Dimensions of a Leadership Cult; Explaining a Leadership Cult; Notes; 

7. Putin in Russian Fiction. Depictions of PutinFiction and Reality
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