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Democracy, Gender, and Social Policy in Russia

A Wayward Society

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  • © 2013

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Authors:
  1. Andrea Chandler

    1. Department of Political Science, Carleton University, Canada

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Part of the book series: Gender and Politics (GAP)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction: Democracy, Gender and Citizenship in Post-communist Russia

    1. Introduction: Democracy, Gender and Citizenship in Post-communist Russia

      • Andrea Chandler
      Pages 1-17

  3. Discourses of the Early Transition: Liberalism, Feminism, and the Market in the 1990s

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19
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    2. Welfare and Social Justice in the USSR’s Final Years

      • Andrea Chandler
      Pages 21-33

    3. Liberalism and Social Reform in the Early Transition

      • Andrea Chandler
      Pages 34-46

    4. Gender Equality, Individual Empowerment, and Pluralism

      • Andrea Chandler
      Pages 47-62

  4. Opposition Politics, Nationalism, and the Search for Authenticity, 1995–2004

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 63-63
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    2. Social Welfare in the Mid-Transition, 1995–2000

      • Andrea Chandler
      Pages 65-74

    3. The Debate on Public Morality

      • Andrea Chandler
      Pages 75-86

    4. The Rediscovery of the Child

      • Andrea Chandler
      Pages 87-104

  5. Statism and Democratic Reversal under Putin: Policies for a Wayward Society, 2000–2008

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 105-106
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    2. Pronatalism and Family Politics under Putin’s Presidency

      • Andrea Chandler
      Pages 107-132

    3. Gender and the State in Debates on Conscription

      • Andrea Chandler
      Pages 133-145

  6. Steps towards a Post-Putin Social Contract

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 147-149
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    2. Social Justice and Social Inclusion, 2005–2011

      • Andrea Chandler
      Pages 151-168

  7. Conclusion

    1. Conclusion

      • Andrea Chandler
      Pages 169-173

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 174-254
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About this book

Through compelling and insightful analysis of the Russian case, this book explores the role that social welfare plays in regime transitions. It examines the role that gender and social welfare has played in Russia's post-communist political evolution from Yeltsin's assumption of the presidency to Putin's return for a third term as president in 2012

Reviews

“Chandler’s book provides a valuable resource for researchers interested in the interplay between gender, democracy and social policy in post-Soviet Russia and a useful case study for those interested in the role of discourse in public policy debates.” (Richard C. M. Mole, SEER - Slavonic and East European Review, Vol. 94 (4), October, 2016) 

Andrea Chandler's fine new book provides an innovative analysis of the competing discourses liberal, nationalist, feminist, human rights - that political elites and citizens used to debate social policy in Russia from 1990-2011. Chandler assigns discourse a key role in explaining policy outcomes, and argues that social policy has been a major cause of both democratizing and de-democratizing regime changes.

Linda Cook, Department of Political Science, Brown University, USA

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Political Science, Carleton University, Canada

    Andrea Chandler

About the author

Andrea Chandler is Professor in the Department of Political Science, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. She authored two previous books: Institutions of Isolation: Border Controls in the Soviet Union and its Successor States, 1917-1993 and Shocking Mother Russia: Democratization, Social Rights, and Pension Reform in Russia, 1990-2001.

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