The author analyzes the political system “rationalization” reforms of 2000—2012, noting that these reforms were aimed at building a model of managed democracy. He marks as the most important in the formation of this model the steps associated with creation, along with democratic institutions, of additional, parademocratic administrative structures providing administrative support to the authority and power of the president. The author concludes that the results of this policy were the elimination of competition of the state administration from the regional elites, the gradual displacement of political pluralism and polycentrism, the elitisation of politics, the assignment of the right of political decisions making to the state nomenclature, and the designing of the electoral system of authoritarianism. The author characterizes political regime formed in Russia as parademocracy.
Keywords: political regime; democracy; authoritarianism; state; civil society; political institutions; president; executive power.
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