Politics of protest in hybrid regimes : managing dissent in post-communist Russia

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"Since the end of the Cold War, more and more countries feature political regimes that are neither liberal democracies nor closed authoritarian systems. Most research on these hybrid regimes focuses on how elites manipulate elections to stay in office, but in places as diverse as Bolivia, Georg...

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Main Author: Robertson, Graeme B.
Format: Printed Book
Published: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Subjects:
Dissenters
Protest movements
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