Talk of the Home Town - The Russian State Duma as a Channel for Local, Distributive Preferences

• In Event: More Than Words: Text Analysis and Parliamentary Debate

Brief Overview

Studying data on the population of speeches in the Russian Duma from 1993 to present day, this paper argues that floor speeches function as a means for the ruling elite to obtain credible information on the distributive preferences of local areas.

Author

• Anders Woller, University of Copenhagen