Book chapter
Failed Experiment?: Presidential Control over the Tenures of Governors in the Russian Federation, 2005–12
The Regional Roots of Russia's Political Regime, p.98
University of Michigan Press
01/09/2017
DOI: 10.3998/mpub.9281269.8
Abstract
Changes in how Russia’s regional leaders are chosen provide something of a natural experiment. Following more than a decade in which regional governors were elected, Russia’s federal president had de facto power to appoint and fire regional governors from 2005 to 2012.¹ Governors served as long as they maintained the confidence of the Russian president. That is, “losing the president’s confidence” was an adequate reason for a governor to be dismissed prior to the end of his or her formal term. Although the president did not need to provide any reason for declining to nominate a sitting governor for a
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Failed Experiment?: Presidential Control over the Tenures of Governors in the Russian Federation, 2005–12
- Creators
- William M. ReisingerBryon J. Moraski
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- The Regional Roots of Russia's Political Regime, p.98
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- DOI
- 10.3998/mpub.9281269.8
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 01/09/2017
- Academic Unit
- International Programs; Political Science
- Record Identifier
- 9983989290602771
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