The 1999-2000 National Elections in Russia: Analyses, Documents and Data

Аннотация

For this volume, a group of Russian political scientists and sociologists has carefully documented and analyzed the election to the Duma of 1999 and the Russian presidential election of 2000. This work builds upon an earlier project of 1990s. That research was published as Elections in Russia, 1993-1996: Analyses, Documents and Data (Berlin: edition sigma, 1999). The new volume devotes greater attention to detailed analyses of electoral and coalition strategies and to the effects of the electoral system on the results of the elections. It also includes a thorough analysis of the regional distribution of electoral support for Russian political parties. A major theme that surfaces throughout the volume is the question of Russia’s future as a democratic state. Social scientists in the former communist countries have developed and adapted sophisticated disciplinary techniques to examine the post-communist experience. These include statistical analysis of electoral results and public opinion survey data. The data used in the analyses for this book are described and documented in an appendix.