things are still looking healthy in Mar 33 (my metric: no party has more delegates than all the other parties combined; others will obviously use different metrics) but Nov 33 is completely out of hand.
the Duma at least has more than two parties, but isn't healthy by my metric. (the same occurs in the upper house)
When more repression arrives, either we'll see a Duma that's nearly 100% "ER and friends", or we'll see a Duma with the same parties but so ineffective that if Putin's horse were elected (it could easily commute from an office in the Moscow Manège?) it wouldn't be any worse than any other deputy.
Your metric is too simplistic. I'm not an expert in 1933 German politics, but the Russian state is quite involved in engineering the appearance of political choice. The FSB and friends ("siloviki") do hands-on screening of candidates from KPRF, LDPR, etc. and coercing of voters (using the "administrative resource" as they call it) and fabricating election results. The Duma has been nearly 100% ER and friends for a very long time now - representatives ("deputies") who don't fall in line are ejected, prosecuted, and sent to prison. The same thing happens with gubernatorial elections (which are a much more obvious sham as they don't have even an appearance of being binding) and local assembly elections as needed (sometimes leading to hilarious/tragic results as the FSB realizes that a particular assembly has gotten too independent).
Thanks, and serendipitously, that also explains both the absent mayor and the general hilarious/tragic atmosphere of petty larceny in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1J5lUKnD4I ...
I guess one metric of repression is what parties are represented in a legislative assembly.
For instance, looking at:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_1932_German_federal_e...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_1933_German_federal_elec...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_1933_German_parliamen...
things are still looking healthy in Mar 33 (my metric: no party has more delegates than all the other parties combined; others will obviously use different metrics) but Nov 33 is completely out of hand.
Looking at:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Duma#Latest_election
the Duma at least has more than two parties, but isn't healthy by my metric. (the same occurs in the upper house)
When more repression arrives, either we'll see a Duma that's nearly 100% "ER and friends", or we'll see a Duma with the same parties but so ineffective that if Putin's horse were elected (it could easily commute from an office in the Moscow Manège?) it wouldn't be any worse than any other deputy.