Original scientific paper

Vladimir Putin: Political institution sui generis

Davor Boban orcid.org/0000-0002-9748-3250 ; Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia

Abstract

Eighteen years after the introduction of the institution of the President in Russia we have witnessed different practices of governing of three Presidents: Boris Yeltsin, Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev. First President Yeltsin created an institution of the President in the Constitution of 1993. His successor Putin inherited its constitutional form, but he made the President a powerful institution in reality, too. It was so until the arrival of Medvedev to power in 2008. After that it became clear that Vladimir Putin's power is beyond constitutional norms and that he is only nominally subject to them. At the same time he remains a powerful political actor in the country, regardless of that he is no the President any more.

Keywords

Vladimir Putin; the President; Russia; semi-presidential system; party system

Hrčak ID:

291404

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/291404

Publication date:

17.12.2009.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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