Shpagin Sergei

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  • № 2, 2016

    • REGIONAL DUMA ELECTIONS ON SEPTEMBER 13TH, 2015, AND CHANGES IN PARTY POLITICAL SPACE IN RUSSIA

      The article is devoted to the study of changes in the party political space of Russia. On the basis of analyzing the results of the regional elections held on September 13, 2015, Yu.Korgunyuk and S.Shpagin denote the strengthening of the tendency that started a year earlier to “hermetization” of the party political system of the country and to waning of the effect of the 2012 party reform, and at the same time the fragility of the ground beneath this seeming stability. The elections were accompanied by further simplification and flattening of the political space. All regions without a single exception witnessed the number of political cleavages reduced to two. The number of electoral cleavages also dropped. The authors conclude that the 2016 Duma elections will see further tightening of the political and electoral space with fractures along the weakest links. The only question is where exactly these fractures will appear and whether they entail the failure of the whole system.

      DOI: 10.30570/2078-5089-2016-81-2-55-76