№ 2 - 2009
Mikhaleva G.M.
When Was the Way Chosen? (Russia’s Parties in the Course of the Two Electoral Cycles, 1993-2000)

It is institutional and non-institutional factors considered in the article, that determined the trajectory of the development of the electoral system and of the party system in the course of the first two Russian electoral cycles. The author analyzes these processes basing herself on the transformation theories and on the parties development theories, answering the question, why the democratization processes that had then begun, failed to get crowned with consolidation of the democratic institutions.