Domination party building in post-soviet Russia

In thisarticle reviewed the backgrounds of uprise, dynamics of establishment and development of the dominatingparty in modern Russia, as well as conditions, under which the different projects of the partywere formed, by the example of the study of the participation of political parties in elections for theState Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation in the years 1993-2007. The electoralresults of every elections foreshadowed political changes in the party system, though not only in termsof the configuration of political forces. The study of these elections and their results allows us to judgeupon the quantitatively changing formal as well as factual status of political parties in the Russianpolitical system, and also upon the formation and development of the "United Russia" domination inthe party system on par with consequences of such party predominance.A change in the status of political parties throughout the duration of all deputy elections in theRussian parliament stipulated, on the one hand, the inclusion of political parties in the political systemas the key political players in election process. At the cost of being granted with a political status, theparties started to possess clear rights and responsibilities, and special political functions (applicableonly to a given type of political organisations). On the other hand we see a decline in the level of factualinfluence of parties and changes in the degree of participation in the fight for power as a result ofstrengthening of a single party's domination.The success in the processes of formation of the dominating type in this work can be favouredmainly with institutional factors, in the basis of which underlies such a political design of the systemof the Russian authority, within which there exists an unconditional defining meaning of the head ofthe government in political processes.

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