Is Russian Democracy Doomed? Toward Presidential Rule

Evidence from the postcommunist countries shows that the strength of the legislature may be the institutional key to democratic consolidation.

In contrast to authoritarian power structures, which rest on a form of bureaucratic corporatism that makes the leader its hostage, the regime in Moscow rests on personalized power, something that…

Russia has witnessed a growing rapprochement between some of its nationalists and some of its democrats, but this trend is threatened by divisions over the annexation of Crimea.