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How Russia's Institutional Structure has affected its Prospects for Democratization. As Scott Mainwaring has said, "choices of political institutions matter."1 Determining, however, in what way they matter is a decidedly difficult task. The purpose of this paper is to attempt to show how choices of institutional structure in Russia's democratic transition have affected its prospects for democratization. More specifically, I will argue that, contrary to much of the literature of the Western political elite, the choice of semi-presidentialism over a parliamentary system was the better choice. I do not intend to prove that presidentialism is superior to parliamentarism in general because, frankly, I don't believe that to be true and, more importantly, I don't think that it is necessary to my argument. All I seek to prove is that some aspects of presidentialism have done more to further Russia's chances of democratic consolidation than a parliamentary system would have. Underlying my...

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