Patronage and Politics in the USSR (Cambridge Russian, Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies, Series Number 82) - Softcover

Willerton, John P.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521121337 ISBN 13: 9780521121330

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2009

Synopsis

How do Soviet politicans rise to power? How are conflicting political interests brought together as policies are developed? Historians and political scientists have long been absorbed by these questions, yet none has systematically examined the crucial role played by patron-client relations. In Patronage and Politics in the USSR Professor John Willerton offers major new insights into the patronage networks that have dominated elite mobility, regime formation and governance in the Soviet Union for the past twenty-five years. Using the career details of over two thousand national and regional officials, John Willerton traces the patron-client relations underlying recruitment, mobility and policy-making.

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In Patronage and Politics in the USSR Professor John Willerton offers major insights into the patronage networks that have dominated elite mobility, regime formation, and governance in the Soviet Union during the past twenty-five years.

Review

"...scholarship doing what social science does best--using cautious, imaginative methods to establish as present and give some quantitative shape to phenomena which seem intuitively or experimentally to be true, but for which there is no systematic evidence....Willerton has done us real service by providing this careful documentaton of the ways in which that self-interest manifested tself in the tight confines of the Soviet system." Martha Brill Olcott, Slavic Review

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0521121337
• ISBN 13: 9780521121330
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 324