Baturo, A;
Mikhaylov, S;
(2014)
Reading the Tea Leaves: Medvedev's Presidency through Political Rhetoric of Federal and Sub-National Actors.
Europe-Asia Studies
, 66
(6)
pp. 969-992.
10.1080/09668136.2014.926716.
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Abstract
In the absence of public information on the inner workings of the Russian political regime, especially during Medvedev's presidency, outside observers often have to rely on politicians' unguarded comments or subjective analysis. Instead, we turn to quantitative text analysis of political rhetoric. Treating governors as a quasi-expert panel, we argue that policy positions revealed in regional legislative addresses explain how elites perceived the distribution of power between Putin and Medvedev. We find that governors moved from a neutral position in 2009 to a clearly pro-Putin position in 2011, and that policy initiatives advocated by Medvedev all but evaporated from the rhetoric of governors in 2012.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Reading the Tea Leaves: Medvedev's Presidency through Political Rhetoric of Federal and Sub-National Actors |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/09668136.2014.926716 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09668136.2014.926716 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Europe-Asia Studies on 21 July 2014, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/09668136.2014.926716. |
| Keywords: | social sciences, area studies, economics, political science, business & economics, government & law, area studies, economics, political science, party regimes, texts, Russia, leadership, positions, democracy, pitfalls, elite |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of Political Science |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1411606 |
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