Stephen White is the James Bryce Professor of Politics and a Senior Research Associate of the University's School of Central and East European Studies. He graduated from Trinity College Dublin in history and political science, and then completed a PhD in Soviet studies at Glasgow - including an exchange year at Moscow State University - and a DPhil in politics at Wolfson College Oxford. He is the chief editor of the Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics, and was for some time also the editor of International Politics.

A collaborative study of the way in which Russia's 'authoritarian elections' have increasingly become a means by which the central authorities can exercise control than a means by which ordinary citizens can impose their own priorities.

This book was origianlly published as a special issue of Europe Asia-Studies.

1. Elections Russian-Style Stephen White 2. Changing the Russian Electoral System: Inside the Black Box Stephen White and Ol'ga Kryshtanovskaya 3. Russia's Authoritarian Elections: The View from Below Stephen White and Valentina Feklyunina 4. Metastasised Fraud in Russia's 2008 Presidential Election Evgenya Lukinova, Mikhail Myagkov and Peter C. Ordeshook 5. The Regional Roots of Electoral Authoritarianism in Russia Grigorii V. Golosov 6. Regional Elections and Electoral Authoritarianism in Russia Cameron Ross 7. Public Perceptions of Electoral Fairness in Russia Ian McAllister and Stephen White 8. Elections, International Observers and the Politicisation of Democratic Values Derek S. Hutcheson 9. Post-Soviet Electoral Practices in Comparative Perspective Sarah Birch 10. Appendix: The Russian Federal Elections, 2007-2008 Stephen White