Overview
- Studies presidentialization within the context of three post-Soviet cases: Russia, Belarus, and Kazakhstan
- Looks at the effect of presidentialism on party systems and individual parties
- Shows how Presidents influenced the party-political processes in various, often decisive, ways
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Presidential Politics (PASTPRPO)
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This book analyses the presidentialization of parties in three countries of the post-Soviet space - Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan - and the role of this phenomenon in their recent political history. The concept of presidentialization of politics means that parties tend to adjust by becoming ‘presidentialised’ in the sense that parties delegate their leaders-as- Presidents to shape both their electoral and governing strategies. The presidentialization of parties refers to institutional resources, constraints and opportunities. It can be also described both as centralization of leadership and a style of government, overlapping with that of personalization of politics that it consists of personal characteristics, attitudes, personal capital and charisma in making politics, instead. Since their introduction, the concept of presidentialization have been mostly analysed within the Western or other democratic countries. Very little attention, however, has been paid to the phenomenon presidentialization of political parties in non-democratic countries or in countries with a transitional form of government . This volume enhances our theoretical understanding of the political role of the Presidents of Russia, Kazakhstan and Belarus in controlling the legislative space and elected officials.
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Marina Glaser is Professor of Philosophy, Department of International Relations, HSE University, Moscow, Russia.
Ivan Krivushin is Professor of Modern History, Department of International Relations, HSE University, Moscow, Russia.
Mara Morini is Associate Professor, PhD in Political Science, Department of Political and International Sciences (DISPI), University of Genoa, Italy.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Presidentialization of Political Parties in Russia, Kazakhstan and Belarus
Editors: Marina Glaser, Ivan Krivushin, Mara Morini
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Presidential Politics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-25977-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-25976-0Published: 11 April 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-25977-7Published: 10 April 2023
Series ISSN: 2946-515X
Series E-ISSN: 2946-5168
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 203
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 5 illustrations in colour
Topics: European Politics, Political Leadership, Legislative and Executive Politics