| Publication |
2009.
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| Summary/Abstract |
A government that has closed its ranks to form a party (the academic community has aptly tagged this "the party of power") is another striking feature of the period under review. The party of power competes with all the other parties for the electorate's votes. This political phenomenon of Russia and Kazakhstan is a logical product of authoritarian democracy realized through the super-presidential form of government in both countries.
Since 1990 the Russian establishment has made several attempts to set up a party of power-the Democratic Russia Movement (1990); the Party of Russian Unity and Harmony-PRES (1993); the Russia's Democratic Choice Party (1994); Russia is Our Home (1995)-each of these structures being genetically tied to its predecessor which served its basis. The Russia is Our Home Party was based on the pro-governmental movements Russia's Democratic Choice and PRES
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