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The Role of Administrative and Financial Resources in Russian Election Campaigns

Student: Vasileva Anna

Supervisor: Svetlana Barsukova

Faculty: Faculty of Social Sciences

Educational Programme: Applied Methods of Social Analysis of Markets (Master)

Year of Graduation: 2020

This master's thesis is devoted to the study of the role of administrative and financial resources in Russian election campaigns. The research question of this work is to track how financial and administrative resources are related. By connection, in this case, we do not mean a statistically significant relationship, but the interaction of these resources, how does one “flow” one resource into another, and does it really happen. The purpose of this work is to identify the mechanisms for using administrative and financial resources during the election campaign, as well as possible practices for combining these resources with each other and ways to convert them into each other. Further, the main theoretical and empirical prerequisites for studying administrative and financial resources in election campaigns are to be considered. The works of domestic and foreign authors involved in the study of this topic are used. The main themes of the use of administrative resources, such as: • expanding the ability of the authorities while in office, • gaining benefits in the subsequent preservation of their position, • use of administrative resources as a result of the existing system. Then the issue of campaign financing is to be considered. Most of the funding sources are from business structures. And here we are talking about the inclusion of business in the electoral process. An analysis of the interview materials revealed that the motivation for this inclusion can be forced or voluntary. As a result of this, we are talking about forced and voluntary investment of funds in election campaigns. Then we consider the interaction of administrative and financial resources. In this paper, we have tried to single out several forms of organization of election campaigns, which basically differ in the ratio of administrative and financial resources.

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