Maximum Security Elections
How Russian Elections Became Non-Elections, and What to Do About It?
A Political-Legal Investigation with Elements of Mathematics
Elena Lukyanova, Evgeniy Poroshin (with the participation of Sergey Shpilkin,
Andronik Arutyunov, and Ekaterina Zvorykina)
Translated by Patrick Murphy (Russian edition: https://freeuniversity.pubpub.org/vybory)
This book is about the role and significance of elections in democratic and anti-democratic processes. Using the example of the transformation of Russian electoral legislation in the first two decades of the 21st century, it shows how, through manipulation of the electoral system and electoral practices, it is possible to neutralize democratic institutions and change the trajectory of political development in the opposite direction. The authors provide a classification of amendments to electoral legislation, which can be used by other countries as a marker when assessing the transformation of political regimes. The book also analyzes how the effectiveness of parliaments depends on the state of the electoral system.
Reviewer: Kandidat of geographical sciences D.B. Oreshkin
Editors: Elena Karezina, Sergey Timofeev
Cover Design by Pavel Kraminov
Production: Vladimir Kharitonov
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