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This article approaches Vladimir Putinʼs authoritarian rule by adhering to populismʼs minimal definition, and argues – in contrast to vernacular perceptions of populism – that Putin is not a populist by his political identification. Whereas the lack of political plurality is an important obstacle for the emergence of any populism, this factor alone cannot explain the Kremlinʼs lack of a consistent authoritarian populist alternative. For instance, the President of Belarus, Aleksander Lukashenko has justified his longstanding populist rule in a country, which certainly lacks political plurality. It is argued that Russiaʼs historical distrust in ‘the people’ as a political subject and the incompatibility of populismʼs simplified antagonisms for Putinʼs neo-imperial course, are the central explanations for the absence of an authoritarian populism in Russia.
Putin as a Non-populist Autocrat
in Russian Politics
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The percentual relationship of the search words ‘the people and Lukashenko’ (the first query) to the mentions of ‘the people’ (the second query) in the Belarusian media between 1996–2015
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The percentual relationship of the search words ‘the people and Putin’ (the first query) to the mentions of ‘the people’ (the second query) in the Russian media between 2000–2015
The percentual relationship of the search words ‘the people and Lukashenko’ (the first query) to the mentions of ‘the people’ (the second query) in the Belarusian media between 1996–2015
The percentual relationship of the search words ‘the people and Putin’ (the first query) to the mentions of ‘the people’ (the second query) in the Russian media between 2000–2015
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