After the collapse of the Soviet Union, sub-national political developments in Russia became highly diversified and the political map of Russia's regions became multi-faceted. The period of 2000s demonstrated a drive on the part of the Kremlin to re-centralise politics and governance and to the demise of newly-emerging democratic institutions at both the national and sub-national levels. Yet, federalism and regionalism remain key elements of the research agenda in Russian politics, and the overall political map of Russia's regions is far from being monotonic. Rather, it is similar to a complex multi-piece puzzle, which can only be put together through skillful crafting. International experts on Russian regional politics, including top scholars from Britain, Canada, Russia and the USA, provide critical evaluations of the multiple deficiencies to be found in Russia's sub-national authoritarianism, including: principal-agent problems in the relations between the layers of the 'power vertical', unresolved issues of regime legitimacy that have resulted from manipulative electoral practices, and the inefficient performance of regional and local governments.
"Gel'man and Ross have put together a "dream team" of specialists on Russia's regions, and they do not disappoint. This volume presents some remarkable new approaches and findings, ranging from a fresh analytical framework for studying subnational authoritarianism to evidence that regional authoritarianism is negatively correlated with pre-Soviet patterns of Western protestant missionary settlement. The volume provides an important assessment of Putin's impact during the 2000s, and draws some preliminary conclusions on whether Medvedev represents anything new. Students of all aspects of Russian politics and comparativists interested in regime change will each find much of interest here".
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