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This paper discusses Russia’s return to authoritarianism. It criticizes the argument that the traditional political culture is responsible for the return of authoritarianism in post-communist Russia. By analyzing the environments and process of Putin’s turn to authoritarianism, it argues that the consolidation of the authoritarian system is the result of Putin’s deliberate institutional engineering and that defects of the 1993 Constitution have allowed the room for Putin to maneuver. The paper emphasizes that Putin has successfully exploited domestic and international environments in reshaping the Russian federalism and party system. Geopolitical factors such as color revolutions and competition with the US in Central Asia, it argues, have aided Putin to legitimize his authoritarian measures. And it also notes the “resource curse” in the consolidation of Russian authoritarianism. In short, the author stresses the need to avoid abusing the concept “path-dependence” and to observe how political strategy and institutional engineering reconstruct the authoritarian tradition in post-communist Russia.
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Putin, Putinism, Authoritarianism, Political Tradition, Political Culture, Political Institutions
