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Association: Name: Midwest Political Science Association 67th Annual National Conference URL: http://www.indiana.edu/~mpsa/
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Hale, Henry. "Patronal Politics: Post-Soviet Political Transformations Twenty Years after 1989" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association 67th Annual National Conference, The Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, IL, <Not Available>. 2009-11-10 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p363958_index.html>

Hale, H. E. "Patronal Politics: Post-Soviet Political Transformations Twenty Years after 1989" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association 67th Annual National Conference, The Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, IL <Not Available>. 2009-11-10 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p363958_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Abstract: Among the set of post-Soviet colored revolutions, why has it been only Ukraine’s that clearly produced a democratic outcome, however messy that democracy might be? And why have no other post-Soviet countries except the Baltics made such a breakthrough? To understand these outcomes, it is (perhaps ironically) helpful to reorient theory away from the traditional reference points of democracy and autocracy and toward a new focus on the inner workings of “patronal” polities and the critical problems of collective action that they face. The paper develops a logic explaining former Soviet cases and illustrates it with a focus on post-revolutionary Ukraine, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, and Abkhazia. Only the former country’s “colored revolution” failed to reproduce a “single-pyramid” patronal system, a system that eventually led each of the other countries to revert back toward autocratic methods as their new leaderships (frequently believed to be more democratic than their predecessors) consolidated power. The paper is based on original field research in all of these territories except Abkhazia and in both the Ukrainian and Russian languages.

The Politics of Diplomatic Service Reform in Post-Soviet Russia: The Institutional Transformation of Ruling Elite-State Official Relations

Twenty years of educational transformation in Central European post-communist countries