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Local Interest Articulation at CPSU Congresses

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 June 2011

Howard. L. Biddulph
Howard. L. Biddulph
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Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Victoria (British Columbia).
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Abstract

Soviet regional leaders were modestly successful in their attempts to add local projects to the agenda of forthcoming five-year economic plans at Party Congresses during the Brezhnev era. The volume of local demands expressed in Congress speeches steadily increased from the 24th to the 26th Congresses, as did the frequency of speaker participation in petitioning for investment. This seems to reflect the gradual legitimation of regional consultation in long-range planning and the sharpening politics of stringency of the latter Brezhnev era. While the vast majority of requests were purely provincial in scope, broader regional interests were articulated to an increasing extent at the 25th and 26th Congresses. Requests respecting agriculture were the most frequent, followed by energy and fuels, water resources, and transportation.

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World Politics , Volume 36 , Issue 1 , October 1983 , pp. 28 - 52
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Copyright © Trustees of Princeton University 1983

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