TY - BOOK AU - Löwenhardt,John TI - Party politics in post-communist Russia SN - 0714644439 AV - JN6699.A795 P375 1998 U1 - 324.247009049 PY - 1998/// CY - London, Portland, OR PB - F. Cass KW - Political parties KW - Russia (Federation) KW - Representative government and representation KW - Politics and government KW - 1991- N1 - "This group of studies first appeared in a special issue ... of The journal of communist studies and transition politics, 14/1, March 1998"--T.p. verso; Includes bibliographical references and index; Party development in the regions : when did parties start to play a part in politics?; Ruth Brown --; Regional party system formation in Russia : the deviant case of Sverdlovsk Oblast; Vladimir Gel'man and Grigorii V. Golosov --; Electoral effects of presidentialism in post-Soviet Russia; Robert G. Moser --; Party platforms : towards a definition of the Russian political spectrum; Sarah Oates --; Ideology, uncertainty and the rise of anti-system parties in post-communist Russia; Stephen E. Hanson --; Left or right? : the CPRF and the problem of democratic consolidation in Russia; Richard Sakwa --; Classifying Russia's party system : the problem of "relevance" in a time of uncertainty; Neil Robinson --; Should party in parliament be weak or strong? : the rules debate in the Russian State Duma; Moshe Haspel --; Political conflict and institutional design : paths of party development in Russia; Thomas F. Remington --; Where now in the study of Russian political parties?; Frederic J. Fleron, Jr., Richard Ahl and Finbarr Lane --; Lessons of comparative politics : Russian political parties as independent variables?; Paul Webb and Paul G. Lewis --; Electoral statistics, 1993-96; compiled by Stephen White ER -