Mechanisms of the recruitment of heads of regional legislative assemblies (CFD regions as an example)

Abstract

The article considers processes of the recruitment of heads of regional legislative assemblies in the context of the institutional transformations which have taken place at the federal and regional level in the last two decades. When analyzing recruitment mechanisms we focus on the consideration of informal practices, with particular attention paid to the place and role of party tools in the process. This paper presents the results of the empirical study based on the analysis of the head staff of CFD regional legislative assemblies in the 1993-2011 period.