The Electoral Policy of Russia in the Early Twenty-First Century as a Managed Power Legitimacy

The article traces the main changes of electoral politics in modern Russia, describes the features developed electoral processes. It is noted that during the first electoral cycle elections in Russia took place the real manifestations of political struggle, competition, and, especially at the regio...

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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:7ee7b6b5bab949e3af100ce58dd533372021-11-12T10:46:01ZThe Electoral Policy of Russia in the Early Twenty-First Century as a Managed Power Legitimacy1726-11391816-8590https://doaj.org/article/7ee7b6b5bab949e3af100ce58dd533372018-04-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.acjournal.ru/jour/article/view/291https://doaj.org/toc/1726-1139https://doaj.org/toc/1816-8590The article traces the main changes of electoral politics in modern Russia, describes the features developed electoral processes. It is noted that during the first electoral cycle elections in Russia took place the real manifestations of political struggle, competition, and, especially at the regional level, had quite unpredictable in nature. The situation began to change after the adoption of the Federal law «On political parties» from 2001 which recognized the triggering effect to the Russian nationalization of the party system. Further processes of development of Institute of elections was associated with increasing authoritarian trends in the implementation of the electoral process, the use of administrative resources at all stages of the electoral mechanism and the suppression of opposition sentiment. The result of the analysis of the processes was the author’s attempt to capture the most important trends in the electoral politics of the state, which introduced a new system of legitimation of power, with the aim of ensuring the unity and stability of society in the interests of the ruling elite. Such resistance society provides for its consolidation around the state in its current model. The work concludes that the electoral process over time becomes more manageable, and the object eventually becomes not only the election procedure, but the intended result of election procedures. In addition, the article presents the thesis of continuing the institutionalization of elections in the country and search for the model of electoral regulations that would best meet the needs of the ruling political elite. At the same time, electoral behavior and public opinion is largely susceptible to changes under the influence of ongoing political transformations.Pavel Nikolaevich RybchakNorth-West institute of management of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration articleelectoral politicselectoral authoritarianismadministrative resourceslegitimacypolitical regimeelectoral consciousnesselectoral behaviorthe stability of societyPolitical institutions and public administration (General)JF20-2112ENRUУправленческое консультирование, Vol 0, Iss 3, Pp 184-194 (2018)
institution DOAJ
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language EN
RU
topic electoral politics
electoral authoritarianism
administrative resources
legitimacy
political regime
electoral consciousness
electoral behavior
the stability of society
Political institutions and public administration (General)
JF20-2112
spellingShingle electoral politics
electoral authoritarianism
administrative resources
legitimacy
political regime
electoral consciousness
electoral behavior
the stability of society
Political institutions and public administration (General)
JF20-2112
Pavel Nikolaevich Rybchak
The Electoral Policy of Russia in the Early Twenty-First Century as a Managed Power Legitimacy
description The article traces the main changes of electoral politics in modern Russia, describes the features developed electoral processes. It is noted that during the first electoral cycle elections in Russia took place the real manifestations of political struggle, competition, and, especially at the regional level, had quite unpredictable in nature. The situation began to change after the adoption of the Federal law «On political parties» from 2001 which recognized the triggering effect to the Russian nationalization of the party system. Further processes of development of Institute of elections was associated with increasing authoritarian trends in the implementation of the electoral process, the use of administrative resources at all stages of the electoral mechanism and the suppression of opposition sentiment. The result of the analysis of the processes was the author’s attempt to capture the most important trends in the electoral politics of the state, which introduced a new system of legitimation of power, with the aim of ensuring the unity and stability of society in the interests of the ruling elite. Such resistance society provides for its consolidation around the state in its current model. The work concludes that the electoral process over time becomes more manageable, and the object eventually becomes not only the election procedure, but the intended result of election procedures. In addition, the article presents the thesis of continuing the institutionalization of elections in the country and search for the model of electoral regulations that would best meet the needs of the ruling political elite. At the same time, electoral behavior and public opinion is largely susceptible to changes under the influence of ongoing political transformations.
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