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dc.contributor.authorFolkestad, Bjarteeng
dc.date.accessioned2006-01-18T15:12:53Z
dc.date.available2006-01-18T15:12:53Z
dc.date.issued2005eng
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1956/1042
dc.description.abstractIntroduction: On December 12th 1993 the Russians were about to elect their new national assembly: TheState Duma. Nearly 106 million registered voters were allowed to participate in the election.This was the first election contested by several political parties since the early experiences inthe beginning of the 20th century.Since then Russia has been through three presidential elections and three parliamentaryelections as well as local parliamentary elections. According to many observers the transitionis still going on and not completed (See for instance Rose and Munroe 2002, Herspring (Ed)2005 and Sakwa 2002). Democracy is not yet “the only game in town”. Others claim thatRussia has made serious steps towards a democratic society and that the elections have provento be fair.The question to be asked is: what kind of electoral pattern has emerged? Can we talk aboutsome kind of stable relationship between party preference and demographic attributes andopinions? In other words are the parties represented in the Duma a manifestation of latentcleavages in the Russian society?The question of cleavage is what this thesis intends to explore. We will try to uncover theRussian society, by trying to find cleavages in it, and to examine how these are manifested inthe political spheres with specific attention to political parties.There are several ways to approach a problem like this. What we intend to do is to find outwhat characterises the voters of the respective parties represented in the Russian State Duma.By using surveys we shall be able to track down demographical, geographical as well asattitudinal characteristics.We can roughly say that there are three issues to be taken into considerations in this thesis:I. What kind of latent cleavages exist in the post communist Russian society?II. What kind of latent cleavages have managed to manifest themselves as politicalparties?III. Can this manifestation lead to a stabilised democracy in Russia?en_US
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dc.language.isoengeng
dc.publisherThe University of Bergeneng
dc.titleFrom Russia with Cleavages. A Study in Party System and Voting Behaviour in Post-Communist Russiaeng
dc.typeMaster thesisen_US
dc.rights.holderThe authoren_US
dc.rights.holderCopyright the author. All rights reserveden_US
dc.description.localcodeSAMPOL350
dc.subject.nsiVDP::Samfunnsvitenskap: 200::Statsvitenskap og organisasjonsteori: 240::Sammenlignende politikk: 241nob
fs.subjectcodeSAMPOL350


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