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Negotiating Democracy: A Genealogy of Presidential Power in Belarus, 1991–1996

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The goal of this article is to recontextualise the constitutional history of a post-Soviet nation, Belarus. By focusing on historical meanings, ascribed to competing institutional choices by agents of the constitution-making process, I seek to challenge the prevailing accounts of post-Soviet institutional trajectories. While many scholars see the post-Soviet legal discourse as a continuation of a long-standing authoritarian political culture, in which democratic ideas found it all but impossible to emerge or take root, I explore a more complicated genealogy of presidential power in Belarus, emphasising the ways in which ideas about strong, unified power were challenged by liberal alternatives in the first five years after independence.

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  • Anton Liavitski, 2025. "Negotiating Democracy: A Genealogy of Presidential Power in Belarus, 1991–1996," Europe-Asia Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 77(6), pages 895-918, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:ceasxx:v:77:y:2025:i:6:p:895-918
    DOI: 10.1080/09668136.2025.2516651
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