Przywództwo i polityka etnokratyczna w Tatarstanie. Część II: Format przywództwa i style uprawiania polityki
Leadership and the ethnocratic politics in Tatarstan (Part II: Format of leadership and styles of doing politics)

Summary/Abstract: Authors in this article present the findings of the second stage of the research projecton the leadership and the ethnopolitics in Tatarstan. From the chronologicaland problematic perspective they analyze the transformation of the model ofleadership in the republic. Much attention has been paid to the relationship betweenthe format of leadership of the following presidents and their styles of doingpolitics. On the basis of the analysis the authors come to the conclusion thatethnocratism, which in Tatatarstan has been an important source of the politicalleadership of the leader and the local elite, seems to lose its ability to adapt andcreate and generates more and more dysfunction and pathology. Moderate policyof ethnopolitisation and Islamisation promoted by the leader and ethnoelite,which can be perceived as a major justification for its power in relations with thefederal center, is being challenged by many social groups. The evidence of thistendency is inter alia the increase of the inter-ethnic tensions and progressive Islamisationof political life in the republic.

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