Thoughts regarding Russia's place in the regime typology
Thoughts regarding Russia's place in the regime typology

Summary/Abstract: In social sciences, in order to somehow clarify the typologies of political regimes and to minimize the quantity and value of the exceptions from the rule that could weaken theoretical approaches, a new concept emerged: hybrid regimes. A review of the literature can easily demonstrate the increasing grey area of identified regimes between the „clearly democratic” ones and the „conventionally authoritarian” regimes. The present essay is built upon a central issue: is Russia a hybrid regime, an authoritarian one or a transitional one? In the following pages, I intend to answer the posed question with the help of some elements that can be extracted through the operationalisation of working definitions, adding also illustrations from the media (extracted through a secondary analysis method).

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