Elections and Voting Behaviour

Wyman, Matthew

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Elections and Voting Behaviour

Matthew Wyman

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Free elections have a short history in Russia. In the Tsarist period elections were introduced for the selection of members of the local representative assembly (zemstvo) in 1864, and for elections to the national parliament (the State Duma) after the revolution of 1905. However these were elections held under a highly restricted franchise, and to institutions with few limited powers. Where the result was inconvenient to the government, ways were found to ignore or reverse it.

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University of Glasgow, UK
Stephen White (Professor of Politics) (Professor of Politics)
Oxford University, UK
Alex Pravda (Director of the Russian and East European Centre and Fellow of St Antony’s College) (Director of the Russian and East European Centre and Fellow of St Antony’s College)
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
Zvi Gitelman (Professor of Political Science and Preston Tisch Professor of Judaic Studies) (Professor of Political Science and Preston Tisch Professor of Judaic Studies)

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Wyman, M. (1997). Elections and Voting Behaviour. In: White, S., Pravda, A., Gitelman, Z. (eds) Developments in Russian Politics 4. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-25852-9_6

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