Law and Power in Russia

Making Sense of Quasi-Legal Practices
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-367-66443-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 238 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 445 g

Reihe: Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Baekken, Havard

Bækken, Håvard

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Innen-, Bildungs- und Bevölkerungspolitik
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Verwaltungsrecht Verwaltungspraxis Polizei
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

Über Autor(innen)

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.