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The Effective Number of Parties
- Grigorii V. Golosov
- Economics
- 1 March 2010
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The Regional Roots of Electoral Authoritarianism in Russia
- Grigorii V. Golosov
- Political Science
- 24 May 2011
IN THE PERIOD 2005–2007, RUSSIA’S POLITICAL regime transformed from what had been sometimes referred to as a ‘managed democracy’ (Balzer 2003), a political regime that restrained the scope of…
Political Parties in the Regions of Russia: Democracy Unclaimed
- Grigorii V. Golosov
- Political Science
- 1 October 2003
Combining statistical and qualitative analysis, including numerous case studies, this text explains why political parties have failed to take hold in Russia's regions. The author's argument is…
The 2012 Political Reform in Russia
- Grigorii V. Golosov
- Political Science
- 1 November 2012
The 2012 political reform in Russia involved both liberalizing concessions to the public in implementing new party registration rules and an effort to make the existing authoritarian system more…
The territorial genealogies of Russia's political parties and the transferability of political machines
- Grigorii V. Golosov
- Political Science
- 1 October 2014
This article uses statistical analysis of aggregate electoral returns in order to establish continuities in the territorial patterns of support between four major political parties of contemporary…
Russia's Regional Legislative Elections, 2003–2007: Authoritarianism Incorporated
- Grigorii V. Golosov
- Political Science
- 1 May 2011
THE TRANSFORMATION OF RUSSIA’S POLITICAL LIFE IN 2003–2007 was profound, and it did not remain unnoticed by international democracy observers. Freedom House downgraded Russia’s status from ‘partly…
Co-optation in the process of dominant party system building: the case of Russia
- Grigorii V. Golosov
- Political Science
- 3 April 2014
This article uses the data from the 2003–2006 and 2007–2011 cycles of sub-national legislative elections in 55 regions of Russia to examine the patterns and scope of co-optation in the process of…
Authoritarian Electoral Engineering and its Limits: A Curious Case of the Imperiali Highest Averages Method in Russia
- Grigorii V. Golosov
- Political Science
- 11 November 2014
This study examines the limits of electoral engineering in a consolidating authoritarian regime by focusing on the case of the Imperiali highest averages method of proportional seat allocation in…
Regional party system formation in Russia: The deviant case of Sverdlovsk oblast
- V. Gel’man, Grigorii V. Golosov
- Political Science
- 1 March 1998
The level of organizational development achieved by competitive political parties in Sverdlovsk oblast is higher than in many other regions of Russia. In cross‐regional comparative perspective, the…
Machine Politics: The Concept and Its Implications for Post-Soviet Studies
- Grigorii V. Golosov
- Political Science
- 22 September 2013
As the chaotic electoral politics of the 1990s have given way to dominating monopolistic "parties of power" in Russia and other post- Soviet countries, the concept of "political machine" is gaining…
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