Party politics in post-communist Russia / edited by John Lowenhardt. (Text)

Reprint. Originally published: 1998.

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.