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- For example, in the post-Soviet states, researchers classify parties such as United Russia and Amanat (Kazakhstan) as dominant parties on the basis that these parties have long held the majority of seats in parliament (although they do not directly form the government or appoint officials to government positions).
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Only organizations that are mainly (or completely) composed of post-Soviet states are listed in this section; organizations with wider memberships are not discussed. The 15 post-Soviet states are divided in their participation to the regional blocs: Belarus, Russia and Ukraine founded the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) in December 1991.
Jun 17, 2011 · Dominant parties are dependent on state leaders and cannot be called truly ruling parties. It is high levels of elite competition that overshadows public participation and ideological or societal cleavages, but sometimes makes a political regime resemble a democracy.
- Rostislav Turovsky
- 2011
Apr 11, 2023 · It can be argued that over the twentieth century Russia has gone from monarchical authoritarianism (the Russian Empire) through the authoritarianism of the dominant party (the Soviet Union) to post-Soviet personalism. The personalist regime of modern Russia relies on a political party that legitimizes all decisions made by the head of state.
- Mara Morini
- mara.morini@unige.it
Oct 7, 2021 · This chapter is devoted to a historical review of the post-Soviet regional governance. Before addressing this subject, however, we should examine and define what post-Soviet Eurasia means and which states are included in this space.
- Igor Davidzon
- igor.duvidzon@mail.huji.ac.il
- 2022
Post-communism is the period of political and economic transformation or transition in post-Soviet states and other formerly communist states located in Central-Eastern Europe and parts of Latin America, Africa, and Asia, in which new governments aimed to create free market -oriented capitalist economies.
At first glance, this question may seem rhetorical because the post-Soviet space, excluding the Baltic republics, is dominated by presidential or semi-presidential forms of government, for which the presidentialization of party politics is much more characteristic than for parliamentary republics.
This study addresses dual questions of why a dominant party emerged within a distinct ethnic community in 2013, and how it monopolized representation. I argue that a dominant party was strategically developed to coordinate preferences and reduce intra-communal opposition, allowing representatives to participate uncontested in Kosovo’s ...
