When “Transitional” Leader Becomes a “Cog” of the Regime

• In Event: Elite Politics in Democracy and Autocracy

Brief Overview

The paper investigates the dynamic of leadership in the transitional period of political system in comparison with the type of leadership in stable political regime. In this paper, the regional focus of post-Soviet Russia was used.

Author

• Nadezhda Ponomarenko, Novosibirsk State University