Mokhov, V.P. Regional and local elites: transformation of status in the period of political reforms of 2000s.

Abstract: Political reforms of V.V. Putin’s term of presidency caused changes in role and status of regional and local elites in the society. They lost part of their autonomy, were set into the “vertical of power”, changed their functional relations with other groups of elite. Financial elite as a key actor of these changes used both political and fi nancial and economical means to change the rules of the game.

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