title: Putin v. The People: The Perilous Politics of a Divided Russia by Samuel A. Greene (review)
abstract: REVIEWS 793 turnout in 2016 (p. 129), and the crackdown, and de-liberalization programme, launched by the Kremlin following the 2011–12 protests when discussing the 2016 election (p. 250). Readers’ reactions will likely be conditioned by whether they are more sympathetic to the ‘“electoral authoritarian” approach or the “comparative political science approach” to the study of elections noted by Hutcheson in the final paragraph of the book. At points, Hutcheson’s attempt to blend these two approa
journal: The Slavonic and East European Review