Patronage and Politics in the USSR

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Hardcover | 10 February 1992

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How do Soviet politicians rise to power? How are national and regional regimes formed? How are conflicting political interests brought together as policies are developed in the Soviet Union? These questions have long absorbed historians and political scientists, yet none have systematically examined the crucial role played by patron-client relations. In Patronage and politics in the USSR Professor John Willerton offers major new insights into the patronage networks that have dominated elite mobility, regime formation, and governance in the Soviet Union during the past twenty-five years. Using the biographical and career details of over two thousand national leaders and regional officials in Azerbaidzhan and Lithuania, John Willerton traces the patron-client relations underlying recruitment, mobility, and policymaking. He explores the strategies of power consolidation and coalition building used by Soviet chief executives since 1964 as well as the institutional links and policy outcomes that have resulted from network politics. The author also assesses the manner and extent to which leaders in politically stable and less stable settings, spanning different national cultural contexts, have relied upon patronage networks to consolidate power and to govern. Finally, Professor Willerton explores how, in a period of dramatic change, patron-client networks may now be giving way to institutionalized interest groups and political parties.

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"...scholarship doing what social science does best--using cautious, imaginative methods to establish as present and give some quantitative shape to phenomena which seem intuitively or experimentally to be true, but for which there is no systematic evidence...Willerton has done us real service by providing this careful documentaton of the ways in which that self-interest manifested tself in the tight confines of the Soviet system." Martha Brill Olcott, Slavic Review

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List of tables
Preface
Introduction
The elite, patronage, and Soviet politics
Networks and coaliation building in the Brezhnev period
Patronage and the Brezhnev policy program
Patronage, Gorbachev, and the period of reform
Patronage and regime formation in Lithuania
Azerbaidzhan and the Aliev network
The logic of patronage in changing societies
Appendix
Notes
Select bibliography
Index
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