In many autocracies, regime leaders share power with a ruling party, which can help generate popular support and reduce conflict among key elites. Such ruling parties are often called dominant parties. In other regimes, leaders prefer to rule solely through some combination of c…
Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction; 2. A theory of dominant party formation; 3. False starts: the failure of pro-Presidential parties under Yeltsin; 4. The emergence of a dominant party in Russia; 5. United Russia as the dominant party; 6. United Russia and Russia'…
