Russia Transformed

Richard Rose is Director of the Centre for the Study of Public Policy at the University of Aberdeen. He is the founder of the Barometer series of surveys of popular response to transformation in 16 post-Communist countries and author of dozens of books on comparative politics and public policy. William Mishler is a Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Arizona and has published widely on political behaviour in America, Canada and Europe. Neil Munro is a Senior Fellow in the Centre for the Study of Public Policy at the University of Aberdeen. He is co-author with Richard Rose of Elections without Order: Russia's Challenge to Vladimir Putin (Cambridge University Press, 2002).

'Few, if any, students of post-Soviet Russia have a greater experience and skill in telling with numbers the story of the continuing giant transformation than Richard Rose, William Mishler and Neil Munro. Their research is both scrupulous and insightful.' Leon Aron, Director of Russian Studies at the American Enterprise Institute, Washington DC and author of Yeltsin: A Revolutionary Life (2000)

• Introduction: transformation and its aftermath; 1. Time matters: the dynamics of regime support; 2. The supply of regimes: democratic and autocratic; 3. A changing supply of Russian regimes; 4. Uncertainties of transformation: a view from the bottom; 5. Changing levels of regime support; 6. Social structure and the evaluation of regimes; 7. Influence of political performance and values; 8. Finding the economic influences that matter; 9. The impact of the passage of time; 10. What could challenge the new equilibrium?; Appendix A. New Russia Barometer samples; Appendix B. Coding of variables.