Political cooptation: conceptual framework and applicability to Russian politics

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The article considers the main approaches to understanding the concept of cooptation, their evolution, and the possibility of application to the analysis of Russian politics. The study aims to identify the distinctive features of political cooptation in Russian politics. It has been established that the concept is associated with economic and sociological approaches, the main features of political cooptation have been identified: its perception through the prism of interaction between elites, the negative and unequal subtext of interaction, its use to reduce the costs of power, and as a tool for analyzing political regimes. Cooptation in Russian politics has a number of specific features. These are its institutional nature, emphasis on systemic opposition, and great attention to regional political processes.

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Alexander Gorokhov

National Research University «Higher School of Economics»

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Email: agorokhov@hse.ru
ORCID ID: 0000-0002-3118-9403

PhD student of the Faculty of Social Sciences

Rússia, 101000, 20, Myasnitskaya st., Moscow

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