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Business Representation in the State Duma

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In a very general sense social scientists use the concept of modernization to describe the ways in which less developed societies achieve the standards reached by more developed societies at a particular point in time. This meaning is shared by scholars and politicians as distinct as the late American political scientist Samuel Huntington and Russia’s chief ideologist Vladislav Surkov.1 However, it is a controversial concept that has been criticized for its linear understanding of modern development; and even those scholars who apply the concept hold different views on the forms that modernization can take. Modernization has many dimensions — economic, political, social and cultural — and the causal relationship between them remains a point of dispute.

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  1. Swedish Institute of International Affairs, Sweden

    Lena Jonson (Head of the Russia Research Programme and Senior Research Fellow) (Head of the Russia Research Programme and Senior Research Fellow)

  2. University of Glasgow, UK

    Stephen White (James Bryce Professor of Politics) (James Bryce Professor of Politics)

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Chaisty, P. (2012). Business Representation in the State Duma. In: Jonson, L., White, S. (eds) Waiting for Reform under Putin and Medvedev. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137011206_8

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