Strategies of creating a dominant party – the case of UR
5 million and nearly 60,000 regional, local and primary
branches (Reuter 2010: 295).
In this light, as there is considerable reason to believe that Russia's political system is moving
towards a, what is called "dominant party system", in this paper, I will examine the main
strategies, by witch United Russia has gained and perpetuated its dominance. After looking at
the main features of a dominant party, I will focus on the reforms in Russia's electoral law,
which supported the nascence of a dominant party. In the second part of the work, I will
concentrate on the political strategies, which have helped the party to maintain its hold on
power.
Defining the dominant party
The concept of dominant-party system, or one-party dominant system, refers to "a category of
parties/political organizations that have successively won election victories and whose future
defeat cannot be envisaged or is unlikely for the foreseeable future" (Suttner 2009: 277).
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