THROUGH RUSSIAN EYES: AN INDIVIDUAL LEVEL OF SUPPORT FOR VLADIMIR PUTIN. REVIEW: SAMUEL A. GREENE AND GREAME B. ROBERTSON. PUTIN V. THE PEOPLE. THE PERILOUS POLITICS OF A DIVIDED RUSSIA. YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS, NEW HAVEN AND LONDON, 2019, 296 P.
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review, political regime, authoritarianism, political consciousnessAbstract
The article is a review of the book Putin v. the people. The Perilous Politics of a Divided Russia by S. Greene and G. Robertson. The review attempts to explain the features of the book in a wide academic and public context, since it is a popular science publication and therefore contributes both academically and publicly to understanding contemporary Russian politics, the characteristics of the Russian political regime and political leadership. The book is devoted to the phenomenon of Vladimir Putin’s popularity from below and the individual mechanism of support and non-support for President Putin. On the basis of surveys and interviews, Greene and Robertson analyze the patterns in support and non-support for Vladimir Putin by ‘ordinary Russians’ and examine how structural factors and the political process influence them. The authors successfully use both specific empirical data and their interpretation in terms of approaches unusual for positivist political research. The article gives a general description of the book, discusses in more detail some individual provisions and conclusions of the authors, and also investigates what fundamentally new facts readers can learn about the Russian political regime from the book.DOI: 10.17072/2218-1067-2019-4-112-115References
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