The linchpin of Putin’s reforms is the creation of seven Federal Districts (FD) – a territorial reform aimed at rationalizing the “power vertical”. The dissertation takes the creation of the FDs as its starting point and probes regional responses to state centralization under Putin.
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J. Paul Goode, of the University of Oxford, was a 2001-02 Individual Advanced Research Opportunities (IARO) [8] fellow.
