POLS 2100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Structural Adjustment, Mercantilism, Washington Consensus
9 Nov 2016
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Krastev: article talks about russia"s politics and their future, draws upon and challenges a number of assumptions about how politics works. *political scientist were wrong about the most basic things. *challenges the assumption that force and repression is needed in a non-democratic state; contemporary russian politics depends on neither force, repression or ideology. *challenges the view that democracy is some sort of default that all countries will eventually succumb to. *challenges the view that openness undermines authoritarian rule. Exit reduces the use of voice (hirschman) Russia is an open economy with open boarders. New authoritarianism persists in russia, it"s only moderately repressive. *most russians today are freer than at any other period in their history. The genius of putin is that things like open boarders, and a lack of an ideology are things that western academics argue would bring down a regime, but for putin these save his regime.
