Why Autocracy Thrives In Russia - Steven Fish

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/03/07/Putin-to-X_Succession_Part_I

UC Berkeley Professor of Political Science M. Steven Fish discusses why autocracy thrives in Russia and why it continues to be popular among the general public.

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The Putin-to-X Succession - Part I with panelists Pavel Podvig, M. Steven Fish, and Kathryn Stoner-Weiss. Kenneth Jowitt moderates.

This is the second panel of a three panel event on Political Succession in Russia hosted by the Hoover Institution.

M. Steven Fish is a Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. His research and teaching interests include post-Soviet politics, democratization and regime change, and general comparative politics. He teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses on these topics.

He is the author of Democracy Derailed in Russia: The Failure of Open Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2005), winner of best book prize in the Comparative Democratization section for the American Political Science Association, and, Democracy from Scratch: Opposition and Regime in the New Russian Revolution (Princeton University Press, 1995) and a coauthor of Postcommunism and the Theory of Democracy (Princeton University Press, 2001).

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[EyeWornClothing]

I have taken two of his classes. He is a very engaging lecturer.

[eulex10]

you know everything,very nicely spoken

[anzrc1]

@eulex10

Quote M. Steven Fish : "Muslims are not inclined to favor the fusion of religious and political authority"

Umm Sharia Law anybody. Death for apostasy. These aren't an fusion of religion and politics???

M. Steven fish is quite clear a dim wank.

[anzrc1]

Quote M. Steven Fish : "Muslims are not inclined to favor the fusion of religious and political authority"

Umm Sharia Law anybody. Death for apostasy. These aren't an fusion of religion and politics???

M. Steven fish is quite clear a dim wank.

[flashroyal1]

boolshit is all that he said

[nessalove925]

umm.. the elections are DEF. rigged, which only makes Russia a hybrid regime (a regime that is a authoritarian and democractic mixed together). Without having fair elections it makes Russia midway towards a democracy, but it def. isn't one yet. Check the stats and see for yourself :)

[tubeslorg]

This guy's clock stopped in 1989. Russia is a democracy today. It's far from perfect, and has tons of problems -- crime, corruption, etc. But there's a constitution, elections, reasonably free speech, and the right to dissent. Sure, their democracy needs work. So does America's. But rehashing foolish Cold War stereotypes is not helpful.

[AnAmericanFan]

Envy?  You are a moron.

[didate]

He's got a right idea. Only, it's rather wordy. Russians are choosing their political fate based on theri needs from viable alternatives on a political landscape. Just as everyone else, America or Africa. Russians are not into "grass roots" political movements - he's right about that.