PRESIDENTS, OLIGARCHS AND BUREAUCRATS
Presidents, Oligarchs and Bureaucrats
Forms of Rule in the Post-Soviet Space
Edited by
SUSAN STEWART, MARGARETE KLEIN, ANDREA SCHMITZ AND HANS-HENNING SCHRDER
German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP), Berlin
First published 2012 by Ashgate Publishing
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Presidents, oligarchs and bureaucrats: forms of rule in the post-Soviet space.
1. Former Soviet republics--Politics and government. 2. Post-communism--Former Soviet republics. 3. Legitimacy of governments--Former Soviet republics. 4. Comparative government.
I. Stewart, Susan, 1967
320.9'47'09051-dc22
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Presidents, oligarchs and bureaucrats: forms of rule in the post-Soviet space / [edited] by Susan Stewart [et al.].
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-4094-1250-2 (hbk) -- ISBN 978-1-3156-0208-0 (ebk)
1. Russia (Federation)--Politics and government--1991- I. Stewart, Susan, 1982-
JN6695.P735 2012
320.947--dc23
2011035098
ISBN 9781409412502 (hbk)
ISBN 9781315602080 (ebk)
ISBN 9781317076087 (ebk-ePUB)
Contents
Susan Stewart, Margarete Klein, Andrea Schmitz and Hans-Henning Schrder
Timm Beichelt
Steven Levitsky and Lucan A. Way
Gero Erdmann
Margareta Mommsen
Vladimir Gelman
Alexander J. Motyl
Heiko Pleines
Pamela Jawad
Christian Timm
Paul Georg Geiss
Sebastian Schiek and Stephan Hensell
Alexander Wolters
Susan Stewart, Margarete Klein, Andrea Schmitz and Hans-Henning Schrder
List of Figures and Tables
Figures
Tables
List of Contributors
Timm Beichelt is Professor for European Studies at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt/Oder, Germany and has been researching regime character and democratization processes in Eastern Europe for over a decade. He has written a monograph on the role of political institutions in processes of democratic consolidation in Eastern Europe (2001). He and co-author, Claudia Eicher, were responsible for covering Eastern European regime development in a multi-volume work on defective democracy, edited by Wolfgang Merkel et al. (2006). In addition, he has published on related topics in the journals Democratization and Comparative European Politics.
Gero Erdmann is Senior Research Associate at the Institute of African Affairs within the German Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) and heads the GIGA Berlin Office. He has been conducting research on forms of rule and state-society relations in African contexts for over two decades. Among his publications relevant to the following volume is: Neopatrimonialism Reconsidered: Critical Review and Elaboration of an Elusive Concept (with Ulf Engel). Journal of Commonwealth and Comparative Studies, 45(1), 95-119.
Paul Georg Geiss is a lecturer at the Department of Political Science at the University of Vienna and has worked extensively on the problem of political change in Central Asia. He graduated from the London School of Economics in 1996, holds a PhD fellowship from the Austrian Academy of Science and previously worked as a research fellow at the German Institute of Middle East Studies in Hamburg. His publications include Pre-Tsarist and Tsarist Central Asia: Communal Commitment and Political Order in Change (2003) and various articles on social history and politics in Central Asia.
Vladimir Gelman is Professor at the Department of Political Sciences and Sociology of the European University in St Petersburg, Russia. He has been a Visiting Professor at Central European University, Budapest and the University of Texas at Austin, and Research Fellow at St Anthonys College, the University of Oxford. He is author and/or editor of numerous books in Russian and English, including Making and Breaking Democratic Transitions: The Comparative Politics of Russias Regions (Rowman & Littlefield, 2003), Elites and Democratic Development in Russia (Routledge, 2003) and The Politics of Local Government in Russia (Rowman & Littlefield, 2004). He has also authored as well as co-authored articles, published in Europe-Asia Studies, International Political Science Review, Post-Soviet Affairs and Democratization.
Stephan Hensell holds a PhD from the Humboldt University zu Berlin and a Diploma in Political Science from the University of Hamburg. He is a senior researcher at the Working Group on the Causes of War at the University of Hamburg, where he is doing research on civil wars, peace-building and the transformation of the state. From 2009 to 2010, he was a visiting research fellow at the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford, and from 2000 until 2005, researcher at the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg. His regional expertise focuses on the Balkans and Eurasia and he has conducted field research in Georgia, Albania and Kosovo. Stephan has lectured on International Relations and Comparative Politics and has published on armed groups and civil wars, the post-socialist state and police apparatuses in the Balkans and the Caucasus.
Pamela Jawad has been a Research Associate at the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF) since 2005 and co-editor-in-chief of the annual Conflict Barometer since 2001. Her main research interest concerns democratization processes and their external promotion, political crises and conflicts, and their prevention and resolution. Most recently she has published: Conflict Resolution through Democracy Promotion? The Role of the OSCE in Georgia. Democratization, 15(3), 2008.
Margarete Klein (co-editor) is Senior Research Associate at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs in Berlin. In her doctoral work, she focused on the functioning of the Russian parliament, and more recently has also published on political regime development in Georgia. She has written numerous articles for German-language political science journals and edited volumes comparing the evolution of various post-Communist political systems in Eastern Europe and the South Caucasus.
