Derek Hutcheson is Associate Professor of Political Science at Malmö University, Sweden. He has published extensively on electoral politics, particularly of the post-Soviet region, and on the electoral rights of transnational citizens. Prior to working in Sweden, he was head of European Studies at University College Dublin from 2006 to 2013 and an ESRC and British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at Glasgow University (2002-05). In association with his involvement in the Global Citizenship Observatory (formerly EUDO-Citizenship), he was also invited to spend several months at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence as an EU Research Fellow in 2016.

• Introduction1: Russian Parliamentary Elections 1993-16: An Overview2: The Framework of Russian Elections3: The Party System4: On the Campaign Trail5: Mobilising the Vote6: Voting in Parliamentary Elections7: How Legitimate are Russia's Parliamentary Elections?Conclusions

Hutcheson is clearly well-versed in theoretical work about electoral authoritarianism and about legislatures in more democratic systems. But the strengths of this volume lie not in any kind of theoretical contributions but more in the historical detail of how one particular legislative system became increasingly less competitive. For scholars interested in that story, Parliamentary Elections in Russia is a gold mine.

Derek Hutcheson is Associate Professor of Political Science at Malmö University, Sweden. He has published extensively on electoral politics, particularly of the post-Soviet region, and on the electoral rights of transnational citizens. Prior to working in Sweden, he was head of European Studies at University College Dublin from 2006 to 2013 and an ESRC and British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at Glasgow University (2002-05). In association with his involvement in the Global Citizenship Observatory (formerly EUDO-Citizenship), he was also invited to spend several months at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence as an EU Research Fellow in 2016.

• Introduction1: Russian Parliamentary Elections 1993-16: An Overview2: The Framework of Russian Elections3: The Party System4: On the Campaign Trail5: Mobilising the Vote6: Voting in Parliamentary Elections7: How Legitimate are Russia's Parliamentary Elections?Conclusions

Hutcheson is clearly well-versed in theoretical work about electoral authoritarianism and about legislatures in more democratic systems. But the strengths of this volume lie not in any kind of theoretical contributions but more in the historical detail of how one particular legislative system became increasingly less competitive. For scholars interested in that story, Parliamentary Elections in Russia is a gold mine.

Derek Hutcheson is Associate Professor of Political Science at Malmö University, Sweden. He has published extensively on electoral politics, particularly of the post-Soviet region, and on the electoral rights of transnational citizens. Prior to working in Sweden, he was head of European Studies at University College Dublin from 2006 to 2013 and an ESRC and British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at Glasgow University (2002-05). In association with his involvement in the Global Citizenship Observatory (formerly EUDO-Citizenship), he was also invited to spend several months at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence as an EU Research Fellow in 2016.

• Introduction1: Russian Parliamentary Elections 1993-16: An Overview2: The Framework of Russian Elections3: The Party System4: On the Campaign Trail5: Mobilising the Vote6: Voting in Parliamentary Elections7: How Legitimate are Russia's Parliamentary Elections?Conclusions

Hutcheson is clearly well-versed in theoretical work about electoral authoritarianism and about legislatures in more democratic systems. But the strengths of this volume lie not in any kind of theoretical contributions but more in the historical detail of how one particular legislative system became increasingly less competitive. For scholars interested in that story, Parliamentary Elections in Russia is a gold mine.