... of California Administrative resource Elections Machine politics Corruption Informal institutions Social contracts Administrative resource Elections Machine politics phasi a democratic façade that confers legitimacy (Allina-Pisano, 2007, 2010; Way, 2005). Recent work on informal politics in post...

...Paul D’Anieri This paper considers Ukrainian politics from 1994 to 2004 (the term of Leonid Kuchma’s presidency) from the standpoint of ‘‘machine politics.’’ Many authors have argued that Ukraine and other post-Soviet states have combined elections with partly authoritarian regimes. The concept...