Transitional Citizens : Voters and What Influences Them in the New Russia.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (337 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Subjects into Citizens -- 2. Transitional Citizens and the Electoral Process -- 3. Society in Transformation -- 4. Partisanship in Formation -- 5. Opinions, Opinions . . . -- 6. Performance, Personality, and Promise -- 7. Tying the Strands Together -- Appendix A: Post-Soviet Election Results, 1993-1996 -- Appendix B: Survey Data, Methods, and Models -- Appendix C: Summary of Issue Opinions -- Appendix D: Supplementary Tables -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
This book looks at the newly empowered citizens of Russia's protodemocracy facing choices at the ballot box that just a few years ago, under dictatorial rule, they could not have dreamt of. Colton finds that despite their unfamiliarity with democracy, subjects-turned-citizens learn about their electoral options from peers and the mass media.
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Elections-Russia (Federation). Voting-Russia (Federation). Political participation-Russia (Federation). Political culture-Russia (Federation). Public opinion-Russia (Federation).