Scholars have identified many ways that politicians use carrots, such as vote buying, to mobilize voters, but have paid far less attention to how they use sticks, such as voter intimidation. We develop a simple argument which suggests that voter intimidation should be especially likely where...

Does the level of party system institutionalization influence high-level incumbents' electoral support within subnational authoritarianism? Is it possible to ensure incumbent electoral success only with manipulative electoral practices? To what extent does this and other factors contribute to...

Russia's mixed electoral system offers an excellent opportunity to study the effects of electoral rules on party discipline in legislative voting. Under the rules in force from the 1993 to 2003 elections, one half of the Russian Duma's members were elected on party lists, while the remaining...

The article examines how Liberal Democratic Party of Russia displays economic crisis in its political discourse. The basic quantitative and qualitative characteristics of the party crisis discourse are studied

The article is hinged on a problem of “United Russia” party’s political subjectness realization and it’s role in Russian modernizational process. The author shows that separateness of modern Russian society, whether on lower, or elite levels, makes the transformation to a dominant party...

The problem of assessing political and organizational capacity of political parties is stated. The insufficiency of the “United Russia” restructuring process and its organizational component changes at the current stage is pointed out

The paper analyzes spatial patterns of party support in the five post-Soviet transitional countries: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Russia, and Ukraine. Data on electoral geography is employed to measure the degrees and dynamics of political autonomy and institutionalization of party systems in the...