A Reconsideration of Russia’s Federal Settlement

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A Reconsideration of Russia’s Federal Settlement

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1. W.H. Riker, Federalism: Origin, Operation, Significance (Boston: Little, Brown, 1964); I.M. Busygina and M.G. Filippov, “Agenty i printsipaly: chego ozhidat’ posle ‘vertikali vlasti,’” Neprikosnovennyi zapas, 2012, no. 4, pp. 68–69; J. Bednar, The Robust Federation: Principles of Design (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009); T.G. Falleti, Decentralization and Subnational Politics in Latin America (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010).

2. Busygina and Filippov, “Agenty i printsipaly.”

3. For more on this, see Falleti, Decentralization and Subnational Politics in Latin America.

4. See A. Dekal’chuk, “Evoliutsiia poniatiia ‘vneshnii shok’ v razlichnykh traditsiiakh izucheniia politicheskogo kursa,” Politeks, 2014, no. 10, pp. 208–226.

5. For more on this, see A. Zakharov, “Spiashchii institut.” Federalizm v sovremennoi Rossii i v mire (Moscow: Novoye literaturnoe obozrenie, 2012).

6. See V.Ia. Gel’man, “Vozvrashchenie Leviafana? Politika retsentralizatsii v sovremennoi Rossii,” Polis, 2006, no. 2, pp. 90–109; V.Ia. Gel’man and S.I. Ryzhenkov, “Lokal’nye rezhimy, gorodskoe upravlenie i vertikal’ vlasti’ v sovremennoi Rossii,” Politeks, 2010, no. 6, pp. 130–151.

7. See G.V. Golosov, “The Regional Roots of Electoral Authoritarianism in Russia,” Europe-Asia Studies, 2011, vol. 63, no. 4, pp. 623–639.

8. See N.V. Zubarevich, Regiony Rossii: neravenstvo, krizis, modernizatsiia (Moscow: Nezavisimyi institut sotsial’noi politiki, 2010); N.V. Zubarevich, “‘Bremia regionov’: shto izmenilos’ za desiat’ let?” Kontrapunkt, 2016, no. 6 (www.counter-point.org/zubarevich_6/).

9. N.V. Zubarevich, “‘Bremia regionov’.”

10. See O.J. Reuter and G. Robertson, “Sub-national Appointments in Authoritarian Regimes: Evidence from Russian Gubernatorial Appointments,” Journal of Politics, 2011, vol. 74, no. 4, pp. 1023–1037.

11. See S. Mashkin, “Povyshenie stroptivogo,” Kommersant, July 24, 2007 (http://kommersant.ru/doc/789222).

12. See the text of Ramzan Kadyrov’s statement posted to Instagram on December 5, 2014 (www.instagram.com/p/wO08kRiRv4/).

13. Marathon press conference of Vladimir Putin, December 18, 2014 (http://kremlin.ru/events/president/news/47250).

14. P. Borisov, “Ot dvoezhenstva k rannym brakam. Kak razvivalsia skandal so svad’boi 17-letnei devushki i nachal’nika chechenskogo ROVD,” Meduza, May 17, 2015 (https://meduza.io/feature/2015/05/17/ot-dvoezhenstva-k-rannim-brakam).

15. E. Milashina, “Glava chechenskogo ROVD zakhotel zhenit’sia: trebuetsia pomoshch’,” Novaya gazeta, April 30, 2015 (www.novayagazeta.ru/articles/2015/04/30/64035-glava-chechenskogo-rovd-za…).

16. “Ramzan Kadyrov: liudiam v maskakh ne mesto v Chechne,” Interfax, June 18, 2015 (www.interfax.ru/russia/448043).

17. See the text of Ramzan Kadyrov’s statement posted to Instagram, January 25, 2017 (www.instagram.com/p/BPscjm1gy8-/).