Soviet Politics and the Group Approach: A Conceptual Note
- 1 March 1972
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Slavic Review
- Vol. 31 (1) , 136-141
- https://doi.org/10.2307/2494149
Abstract
One of the “Great Debates” among Soviet specialists in the social sciences today concerns the applicability of interest group theory to the study of Soviet politics. Though a large number of specialists have accepted the notion that interest groups do indeed play a certain kind of role in the Soviet system, there are still those who hold to the opinion, once taken for granted but in recent years challenged, that interest group theory simply does not apply to the Soviet Union. The strength of the latter argument lies in the fact that in the USSR interest groups do not operate publicly and openly, as they do in the United States; therefore, interest group theory as developed to fit the American context cannot describe or explain the dynamic processes of policymaking in Russia.Keywords
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