CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2018
| Author | Shamiev, Kirill |
|---|---|
| Title | The Influence of Interest Groups on the Military Policy Sustainability in Russia (2007 - 2012) |
| Summary | The security status-quo in Russia from 2007 to 2012 is often described as the period of "Serdyukov reforms". During the 6 years Russian armed forces faced unprecedented changes that affected its structural, economic, social and ideological elements. However, despite outstanding political and financial support of the Minister of Defense, Anatoliy Serdyukov, from Vladimir Putin and Dmitrii Medvedev, not all aims were fulfilled, and some changes were rolled back. This research examines the role of interest groups in the sustainability of the military policy of that period. Using the theoretical framework of minimum winning coalitions in the policy process of non-democratic state the research shows that the reformers faced formal and informal resistance of mobilized interest groups that they could not overcome considering the existed political and administrative limitations. Ultimately this process led to the Minister of Defense resignation and stopped radical changes in contemporary Russian armed forces |
| Supervisor | Bodenstein, Thilo |
| Department | School of Public Policy MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2018/shamiev_kirill.pdf |
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