Grigoryeva Maria

№ 1, 2012

• PLURAL COMPONENT OF RUSSIAN REGIONAL LEGISLATURES

  In the article the author considers immediate and long-term impact of the 2003 electoral reform on the regional electoral systems and plural component of regional legislatures. After analyzing electoral institutions that existed in the regions when the new version of the law «On the main guarantees of electoral rights and the right to participate in referendum of the citizens of the Russian Federation» and those transformations that they underwent right after the reform, M.Grigoryeva shows that the changes caused by that reform in the number of legislators elected by the majoritarian formula and its member composition played their role in the subordination of regions to the federal centre.

  DOI: 10.30570/2078-5089-2012-64-1-124-131