Maslanov D.V.
President and Russians: foreign outlook upon the attitude of population of post-Soviet Russian towards presidents of the country
// Politics and Society.
2017. № 1.
P. 53-59.
DOI: 10.7256/2454-0684.2017.1.17151 URL: https://en.nbpublish.com/library_read_article.php?id=17151
Президент и россияне: зарубежный взгляд на отношение населения постсоветской России к президентам страны
Maslanov Dmitrii Valer'evich
Post-graduate student, the department of New and Newest History, N. I. Lobachevsky Nizhny Novgorod State University; Consultant, Government Apparatus of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast
603108, Russia, Nizhny Novgorod, Ulyanova Street 2
Abstract: This article examines the attitude of the population of Russian Federation towards the presidents of the country in the context of “democratic transition” theories. The research of political development of countries with the transition type of democracy, which post-Soviet Russian is referred to as, or democratic transits, hold special place in the world political science. The peculiarities of public opinion regarding the establishing Russian democracy were not left without attention of the foreign sociological research; due to this fact, based on the example of little-studied public opinion polls conducted by the foreign authors, it is demonstrated how they view the population’s perception of the institution and persona of the president and his impact upon the development of country’s political system. This work analyzes the foreign research carried out in cooperation with the Institute of Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, surveys of Pew Research Center, and others. The main result lies in the introduction into the scientific discourse of a number of little-studied foreign research, which confirm a foreign idea that the transit of democracy formed a hybrid government in post-Soviet Russia (hybrid regime, authoritarian democracy, electoral authoritarianism). In addition to that, the provided opinions and results can considered in structuring the long-term image strategies by the Russian government.
Keywords:
Superpresidentialism, Free elections, Public opinion, Sociological surveys, Democratic transit, Delegative democracy , Political development, Post-Soviet Russia, V. V. Putin, Strong persona
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