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Neopatrimonialism : the Russian regime through a Weberian lens
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Alexander ETKIND and Mykhailo MINAKOV (eds), Ideology after Union : political doctrines, Stuttgart : Ibidem Press, [2020], Soviet and post-Soviet politics and society, 216, pp. 93-110
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SKIGIN, Pavel, Neopatrimonialism : the Russian regime through a Weberian lens, in Alexander ETKIND and Mykhailo MINAKOV (eds), Ideology after Union : political doctrines, Stuttgart : Ibidem Press, [2020], Soviet and post-Soviet politics and society, 216, pp. 93-110 - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/69242
Abstract
“Since any order is better than any disorder, any order is established”— this Hobbesian observation by Adam Przeworski captures the existing level of certainty about the classification of the current Russian regime (1991: 86). The mere existence of the Russian Leviathan is the only fact beyond doubt, its genus and species
being a matter of controversy: is it an electoral authoritarianism, a hybrid regime, a managed or defective democracy, an autocracy, a petro-state, or perhaps a fascist state, as asserted by Alexander Motyl 2016? The answer would not only interest scholars but also elucidate the country’s prospects and the probability of regime
change (Fisun 2012: 91).