Negotiating Democracy: A Genealogy of Presidential Power in Belarus, 1991–1996

Anton Liavitski

Europe-Asia Studies, 2025, vol. 77, issue 6, 895-918

Abstract: The goal of this article is to recontextualise the constitutional history of a post-Soviet nation, Belarus. By focusing on historical meanings, ascribed to competing institutional choices by agents of the constitution-making process, I seek to challenge the prevailing accounts of post-Soviet institutional trajectories. While many scholars see the post-Soviet legal discourse as a continuation of a long-standing authoritarian political culture, in which democratic ideas found it all but impossible to emerge or take root, I explore a more complicated genealogy of presidential power in Belarus, emphasising the ways in which ideas about strong, unified power were challenged by liberal alternatives in the first five years after independence.

Date: 2025
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