Maximum Security Elections #
Elena Lukyanova, Evgeniy Poroshin
(with the participation of Sergey Shpilkin, Andronik Arutyunov, and Ekaterina Zvorykina)
DOI: 10.55167/3888b7eb35ed • ISBN: 9789934380341 • © 2024 • Published Feb 21, 2024
Maximum Security Elections
How Russian Elections Became Non-Elections, and What to Do About It?
A Political-Legal Investigation with Elements of Mathematics
Elena Lukyanova, Evgeniy Poroshin (with the participation of Sergey Shpilkin,
Andronik Arutyunov, and Ekaterina Zvorykina)
Translated by Patrick Murphy (Russian edition: https://freeuniversity.press/books/vybory
This book is about the role and significance of elections in democratic and anti-democratic processes. Using the example of the transformation of Russian electoral legislation in the first two decades of the 21st century, it shows how, through manipulation of the electoral system and electoral practices, it is possible to neutralize democratic institutions and change the trajectory of political development in the opposite direction. The authors provide a classification of amendments to electoral legislation, which can be used by other countries as a marker when assessing the transformation of political regimes. The book also analyzes how the effectiveness of parliaments depends on the state of the electoral system.
Reviewer: Kandidat of geographical sciences D. B. Oreshkin
Editors: Elena Karezina, Sergey Timofeev
Cover Design by Pavel Kraminov
Layout and production: Vladimir Kharitonov
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Table of Content #
From the authors. A Fulcrum and a Lever of Democracy
by Elena Lukyanova and Evgeniy Poroshin
Introduction. Why Elections?
by Elena Lukyanova and Evgeniy Poroshin
Part I. Correlation Between Changes in the Electoral Legislation and the Transformation of the Political Regime
by Elena Lukyanova and Evgeniy Poroshin
Chapter 1. Defective Democracy. Transformation of the Political Regime and Electoral Legislation in Russia in 1993–1999
by Elena Lukyanova and Evgeniy Poroshin
Chapter 2. Transformation of the Political Regime and Electoral Legislation in Russia in 2001–2011. Electoral Authoritarianism: The Beginning (The Seizure of Power)
by Elena Lukyanova and Evgeniy Poroshin
Chapter 3. Transformation of the political regime and electoral legislation in Russia in 2008–2019. Retention of power. Electoral Authoritarianism: Consolidation
by Elena Lukyanova and Evgeniy Poroshin
Chapter 4. Transformation of the political regime and legislation in 2020–2021. Destination. Transition to dictatorship
by Elena Lukyanova and Evgeniy Poroshin
Chapter 5. Classification of Amendments to the Electoral Legislation as a Marker of a Change in the Political Regime (Goals and Objectives of the Authorities)
by Elena Lukyanova and Evgeniy Poroshin
Part II. Elections and Parliament. Chapter 1. Parliament—Parliamentarism—Elections
by Elena Lukyanova and Evgeniy Poroshin
Chapter 2. Parliamentary Portraits in the Interiorof Russian Electoral Legislation
by Elena Lukyanova and Evgeniy Poroshin
Chapter 3. Mechanisms of the Influence of Electoral Legislation on the Representative Nature of Parliament
by Elena Lukyanova and Evgeniy Poroshin
Part III. Means of Attaining the Goals and Tasks of Authoritarian Power and Their Consolidation. Chapter 1. Ways of Transforming the Electoral Field to Achieve Certain Goals and Objectives of Power
by Elena Lukyanova and Evgeniy Poroshin
Chapter 2. How an Authoritarian Power AttainsIts Goals and Objectives: A Mathematical Perspective
by Andronik Arutyunov and Sergey Shpilkin
What Can Be Done?
by Elena Lukyanova
What Can Be Done With Remote Electronic Voting?
by Ekaterina Zvorykina