Law and Power in Russia - Håvard Bækken

Law and Power in Russia

Making Sense of Quasi-Legal Practices

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Buch | Softcover
228 Seiten
2020
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-66443-5 (ISBN)
49,85 inkl. MwSt
This book explores selective law enforcement, arguing that manipulation of the legal system is a feature of Putinism, reflecting its hybrid authoritarianism and Russian legal culture. The book analyses selective law enforcement, the link between law and power, legal theories and political hybridity.
This book explores the issue of selective law enforcement, arguing that the manipulation of the legal system by powerful insiders is a distinctive feature of Putinism, reflecting both its hybrid authoritarianism and Russian legal culture. Based on extensive research including interviews with the victims of selective law enforcement, the book analyses how selective law enforcement works in Russia, discusses the link between law and power, and relates the Russian situation to examples from elsewhere and to general legal theories and ideas of political hybridity.

Håvard Bækken (b. 1983), obtained a PhD in Russian Area Studies from the University of Oslo (UiO) in 2014. Bækken has been working as a research fellow at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI) and guest researcher at the Norwegian University Centre in St. Petersburg and the EU–Russia Centre in Brussels. He has taught Russian politics and history at the Institute of Literature, Area-Studies, and European Languages (ILOS) at UiO, and Russian language at the Nansen Academy. Håvard Bækken has earlier publications on issues of law, power, and quasi-legal practices in Russia, as well as on resurgent state patriotism and ‘patriotic education’ in the same country.

Part I: Law and Power in Russian Politics



Chapter 1. Law and power in authoritarian regimes. Research and perspectives



Chapter 2. The Russian legal tradition



Chapter 3. The creation of a new quasi-legal order



Chapter 4. The politico-legal duality of Putinism, Part II: Selective Law Enforcement in Theory and Practice



Chapter 5. Selective law enforcement as a mechanism enforcing informal rules



Chapter 6. Three issue areas of controversy



Chapter 7. A legal minefield: The role of laws in selective law enforcement



Chapter 8. Perceptions about political interference



Chapter 9. The impact of quasi-legal repression



Conlcluding Remarks.

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Gewicht 453 g
Themenwelt Recht / Steuern Allgemeines / Lexika
Recht / Steuern Arbeits- / Sozialrecht Sozialrecht
Recht / Steuern EU / Internationales Recht
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Politische Systeme
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Staat / Verwaltung
ISBN-10 0-367-66443-7 / 0367664437
ISBN-13 978-0-367-66443-5 / 9780367664435
Zustand Neuware
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