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Levels of Centralisation and Autonomy in Russia’s ‘Party of Power’: Cross-Regional Variations

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  • Petr Panov
  • Cameron Ross

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The institutionalisation and nationalisation of Russia’s party system, which is dominated by United Russia (Edinaya Rossiya—UR), has played a major role in the building of Putin’s ‘power vertical’. Nevertheless, despite the fact that formal relations within UR are highly centralised, informal practices allow for far greater degrees of regional autonomy. Focusing on UR’s candidate selection for the 2011 Duma election this article provides an examination of cross-regional variations in the relations between UR’s Party Centre and its regional branches. As electoral legislation requires the segmentation of party lists into ‘regional groups’, the composition of the regional lists, specifically the share of ‘native candidates’, is considered as an indicator of the level of autonomy of regional branches. Ordinal regression analysis confirms our main theoretical hypotheses. In the more financially autonomous regions, UR’s regional branches will have more leverage and bargaining power in their relations with the Party Centre. A second important factor is heterogeneity: the more a region’s socio-economic indices deviate from the national average (either up or down), the less its UR branch is subordinate to the Party Centre.

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  • Petr Panov & Cameron Ross, 2016. "Levels of Centralisation and Autonomy in Russia’s ‘Party of Power’: Cross-Regional Variations," Europe-Asia Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 68(2), pages 232-252, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:ceasxx:v:68:y:2016:i:2:p:232-252
    DOI: 10.1080/09668136.2015.1125854
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