The electoral result of the "United Russia" as as the main indicator of the official's work

What determines the personnel policy of the Russian bureaucracy, if not the good of society? Noah Buckley, Guzel Grifullina and Ora John Edward Reuter are trying to answer this question in their work called "Bureaucratic Appointments in Hybrid Regimes" published at the HSE preprint series (Article at Slon.ru, Jan.11, 2013)
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