This is a significant book and a nice tribute to Oxford's Archie Brown, long a distinguished student of Soviet leadership.

• 1. Archie Brown ; 2. Introduction: Putin in Perspective ; 3. Regimes of Political Consolidation: The Putin Presidency in Soviet and Post-Soviet Perspective ; 4. Soviet Political Leadership and 'Sovietological' Modelling ; 5. Russian Corruption and State Weakness in Comparative Post-Communist Perspective ; 6. Putin and the Attenuation of Russian Democracy ; 7. Majority Control and Executive Dominance: Parliament-President Relations in Putin's Russia ; 8. Putin's Popularity and its Implications for Democracy in Russia ; 9. Putin as Patron: Cadres Policy in the Russian Transition ; 10. Putin and the 'Oligarchs': A Two-Sided Commitment Problem ; 11. Putin's Reform of the Russian Federation ; 12. Vladimir Putin's Political Choice: Towards Bureaucratic Authoritarianism ; 13. Putin's Foreign Policy Choices ; An Annotated Bibliography of Published Work by Archie Brown

This is a significant book and a nice tribute to Oxford's Archie Brown, long a distinguished student of Soviet leadership.

• 1. Archie Brown ; 2. Introduction: Putin in Perspective ; 3. Regimes of Political Consolidation: The Putin Presidency in Soviet and Post-Soviet Perspective ; 4. Soviet Political Leadership and 'Sovietological' Modelling ; 5. Russian Corruption and State Weakness in Comparative Post-Communist Perspective ; 6. Putin and the Attenuation of Russian Democracy ; 7. Majority Control and Executive Dominance: Parliament-President Relations in Putin's Russia ; 8. Putin's Popularity and its Implications for Democracy in Russia ; 9. Putin as Patron: Cadres Policy in the Russian Transition ; 10. Putin and the 'Oligarchs': A Two-Sided Commitment Problem ; 11. Putin's Reform of the Russian Federation ; 12. Vladimir Putin's Political Choice: Towards Bureaucratic Authoritarianism ; 13. Putin's Foreign Policy Choices ; An Annotated Bibliography of Published Work by Archie Brown

This is a significant book and a nice tribute to Oxford's Archie Brown, long a distinguished student of Soviet leadership.

• 1. Archie Brown ; 2. Introduction: Putin in Perspective ; 3. Regimes of Political Consolidation: The Putin Presidency in Soviet and Post-Soviet Perspective ; 4. Soviet Political Leadership and 'Sovietological' Modelling ; 5. Russian Corruption and State Weakness in Comparative Post-Communist Perspective ; 6. Putin and the Attenuation of Russian Democracy ; 7. Majority Control and Executive Dominance: Parliament-President Relations in Putin's Russia ; 8. Putin's Popularity and its Implications for Democracy in Russia ; 9. Putin as Patron: Cadres Policy in the Russian Transition ; 10. Putin and the 'Oligarchs': A Two-Sided Commitment Problem ; 11. Putin's Reform of the Russian Federation ; 12. Vladimir Putin's Political Choice: Towards Bureaucratic Authoritarianism ; 13. Putin's Foreign Policy Choices ; An Annotated Bibliography of Published Work by Archie Brown