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Dr Cameron Ross

Contact Details

Email: c.z.ross@dundee.ac.uk
Tel: + 44 (0) 1382 385064

Dr Cameron Ross is convenor of Politics and International Relations. Dr Ross's primary teaching is in the area of Russian Politics which he teaches at 2nd, 3rd and 4th year and also at the postgraduate level. He holds a BA (Hons) in Politics and History from the University of Keele, an MA in Soviet Politics from the University of Essex and a Ph.D from the University of Cambridge. Before coming to Dundee in 1995, he taught politics at Cambridge University, the College of William and Mary (Virginia, USA), and Oberlin College (Ohio, USA).

As can be seen below, his current research interests are in the areas of regional and local politics in Russia. He is also the editor of the journal, Perspectives on European Politics and Society (Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden, Netherlands).

Teaching

Undergraduate Modules

Postgraduate Modules

Contributor to our MLitt in International Politics and Security.

Research

Dr Ross's current interests are in the areas of regional and local politics in Russia.

Publications

Books

Russian Regional Politics under Putin and Medvedev, ed. (Routledge, Europe-Asia Studies Series, 2011), 176 pp.

The Politics of Subnational Authoritarianism in Russia, ed. with Vladimir Gel’man (Ashgate Publishers, 2010), 229 pp.

Local Politics and Democratization in Russia, BASEES Series on Russian and East European Studies (London: Routledge, 2009), 270 pp.

Federalism and Local Politics in Russia, BASEES Series on Russian and East European Studies, ed. with Adrian Campbell (London: Routledge, 2009), 306 pp.

Russian Politics Under Putin, ed. (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2004), 292 pp.

Federalism and Democratisation in Russia (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2002), 182 pp.

Regional Politics in Russia, ed. (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2002), 223 pp.

Perspectives on the Enlargement of the European Union, ed. (Brill Academic Publishers, 2002), 256 pp.

Russia After the Cold War, ed. with Mike Bowker (Longman: 2000), 368 pp.

The Transition From Communism to Capitalism: Ruling Elites From Gorbachev to Yeltsin, with David Lane (St. Martin's Press: 1999), 259 pp.
[now also translated into Japanese and published in Japan]

Local Government in the Soviet Union (St. Martin's Press, 1987), 229 pp.

Articles

'Krisis Rossiskovo Federalisma', Politicheskaya Nauka, 4 (2012) 71-96 [Forthcoming]

'Partii v Rossiiskie Regionakh: Vymirayushchii Vid?', Neprikosnovennyi Zapas: Debaty o Politike i Kul’ture, 1 (2012) [Published in Russian]

'Regional Elections and Electoral Authoritarianism in Russia', Europe-Asia Studies, 63:4 (2011), 641-662

'The Rise and Fall of Political Parties in Russia’s Regional Assemblies', Europe-Asia Studies, Special Issue: Russian Regional Politics under Putin and Medvedev, 63:3 (2011), 429-448 [edited by Cameron Ross]

'Federalism and Intergovernmental Relations in Russia', Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics, Special Issue: Federalism and Inter-governmental Relations in Russia, 26:2 (2010), 165-187

Cameron Ross, 'Munitsipal'nye Vybory i Elektoral'nyi Avtoritarizm v Rossii' (Municipal Elections and Electoral Authoritarianism in Russia), Politicheskaya Nauka (Political Science), 3 (2008), 114-129 [Published in Russian]

'Municipal Reform in the Russian Federation and Putin's Electoral Vertical', Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization, 15:2 (2007), 191-208

'Local government reform in the Russian Federation: a tortuous and twisted path', Local Government Studies, 32:5 (2006), 638-658

'Federalism and Electoral Authoritarianism in Russia', Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization, 13:3 (2005), 347-372

'Politika po Reformirovaniyu Mestnovo Samoupravleniya v Rossii' ('The Politics of Local Government Reform in Russia'), Sravnitelnoe Konstitutsionnoe Obozrenie (Comparative Constitutional Review), 52:3 (2005), 142-148 [Published in Russian]

'Putin's Federal Reforms and the Consolidation of Federalism in Russia: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back!', Communist and Post-Communist Studies, 36:1 (2003), 29-47

'Federalisering En Democratisering In De Sovjet-Unie En De Russische Federatie', Oost-Europa Verkenningen, (December 2001), 28-39 [published in Dutch]

'Federalism and Democratisation in Russia', Communist and Post-Communist Studies, Special Issue: Ten Years After the Collapse of the Soviet Union, 33:4 (2000), 403-420

'Federalizm i Demokratizatsiia v Rossii', Politicheskie Issledovaniia (Polis), 3 (1999), 16-29 [published in Russian in one of the most prestigious Russian social science journals]

'Republikanizatsii Rossii', Konstitutsionnoe Pravo: Vostochnoevropeiskoe Obozrenie, 29:4 (1999), 9-16 [published in Russian in a prestigious law journal]

'The Russian Political Elites, 1991-1995: Recruitment and Renewal', with David Lane, International Politics, 34 (June 1997), 169-192

'The CPSU Ruling Elite 1981-1991: Commonalities and Divisions', with David Lane, Communist and Post-Communist Studies, 28:3 (1995), 339-360

'Limitations of Party Control: The Government Bureaucracy in the USSR', with David Lane, Communist and Post-Communist Studies, 27:1 (1994), 19-38

'The Social Background and Political Allegiance of the Political Elite of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR: The Terminal Stage, 1984 to 1991', with David Lane, Europe-Asia Studies, 46:3 (1994), 437-463

'The Composition of the Politburo of the CPSU: 1966 to 1991', with David Lane, Coexistence, 31 (1994), 29-61

Chapters in Books

‘Federalism and De-federalisation in Russia’, in Routledge Handbook of Russian Politics and Society Federalism, ed. by Graeme Gill and James Young (Routledge, 2011).

‘The Rise and Fall of Political Parties in Russia's Regional Assemblies’, in Russian Regional Politics under Putin and Medvedev, ed. by Cameron Ross, (Routledge, 2011), pp. 69-88.

‘Sub-National Elections and the Development of Semi-Authoritarian Regimes’, in The Politics of Sub-National Authoritarianism in Russia, ed. by Vladimir Gel’man and Cameron Ross, (Ashgate, 2010), pp. 171-190.

‘Reforming the Federation’, in Developments in Russian Politics 7, ed. by Stephen White, Henry Hale, and Richard Sakwa (Palgrave, 2010), pp. 152-170.

‘Municipal Elections and Electoral Authoritarianism under Putin’, in Federalism and Regional and Local Politics in Russia, ed. by Cameron Ross and Adrian Campbell, (London: Routledge, 2009), pp. 284-304.

'Local government reform in the Russian Federation: a tortuous and twisted path', in Local Government in Central and Eastern Europe: The Rebirth of Local Democracy, ed. by Andrew Coulson and Adrian Campbell (London: Routledge, 2008), pp. 83-97.

'Russia's Multinational Federation: From Constitutional to Contract Federalism and From the War of Laws and Sovereignties', in Multinational Federations, ed. by Michael Burgess and John Pinder (London: Routledge: 2007), pp. 108-126.

'From Party and State Domination to Putin's 'Power Vertical': The subjugation of Mayors in Communist and Post-Communist Russia', in Heads of the Local State: Mayors, Provosts and Burgomasters since 1800, ed. by John Garrard (Ashgate, 2007), pp. 173-190.

'Federalizm i Demokratizatsiya v Rossii', in Politiko-Pravovye Resursy Federalizma v Rossii, ed. by Rafael Khakimov (Kazan Institute of Federalism, 2006), pp.130-159. [Published in Russian]

'Putin's Federal Reforms', in Russian Politics under Putin, ed. by Cameron Ross (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2004), pp. 155-176.

'Political Parties and Regional Democracy', in Regional Politics in Russia, ed. by Cameron Ross (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2002), pp. 37-56.

'Russia's Federal Legacy and Democratization', in The Legacy of State Socialism and the Future of Transformation , ed. by David Lane (Rowman and Littlefield, 2002), pp. 69-86.

'The Republicanisation of Russia in Practice', in Politics at the Edge, ed. by Christopher Pierson and Simon Tormey (Macmillan, 2000), pp.227-240.
[This is a special PSA edited collection chosen from over two hundred papers delivered at the 49th PSA Conference held at Nottingham, April 1999.]

'Federalism and Regional Politics', in Russia After the Cold War , ed. by Mike Bowker and Cameron Ross (Longman: 2000), pp. 85-102.

'The Russian Political Elites, 1991-1995: Recruitment and Renewal', with David Lane, in Postcommunist Elites and Democracy in Eastern Europe, ed. by John Higley and Jan Pakulski (Macmillan: 1998), pp. 34-66.

'From Soviet Government to Presidential Rule', with David Lane, in Russia in Transition, ed. by David Lane (Longman: 1995), pp. 3-20.

'The Changing Composition and Structure of the Political Elites', with David Lane, in Russia in Transition, ed. by David Lane (Longman: 1995), pp. 52-75.

'Party-State Relations', in Soviet Politics and Executive Power: The Rise and Decline of the Soviet State, ed. by Eugene Huskey (Sharpe Publishers: 1992), pp. 49-82.