Name: Law and Power in Russia: Making Sense of Quasi-Legal Practices
Brand: Routledge
SKU: 9781138570887
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Author: Havard Baekken
ISBN: 9781138570887

Law and Power in Russia: Making Sense of Quasi-Legal Practices

By Havard Baekken

Routledge December 2018

Specifications

ISBN-13: 9781138570887
Publisher: Routledge
Publication: December 2018
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

Details

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.

Table of Contents

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.