States such as Russia and Ukraine may not have gone back to totalitarianism or the traditional authoritarian formula of stuffing the ballot box. But a whole industry of political technology has developed instead, with shadowy private firms and government fixers on lucrative contracts dedicated to the black arts of organising electoral success.This book uncovers the sophisticated techniques of the virtual political system used to legitimise postSoviet regimes entire fake parties, phantom political rivals and scarecrow opponents. And it exposes the paramount role of the mass media in projecting these creations and in falsifying the entire political process.Wilson argues that it is not primarily economic problems that have made it so difficult to develop meaningful democracy in the former Soviet world. Although the West has seen its spin doctors, dirty tricks and aggressive ad campaigns, it is the unique postBolshevik culture of political technology that is the main obstacle to better governance in the region, to real popular participation in public affairs and to the modernisation of the political economy in the longer term.

Binding: Paperback;352 pages; Publisher: Yale University Press UK SR; Classification: HBG; Weight: 686 g; Dimensions: 155 x 232 x 23

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