1. Vladimir Putin, ‘50 years of European Integration and Russia’ (25 March 2007),
http://www.kremlin.ru
/eng/speeches/2007/03/25/1133_type104017_ 120738.shtml. His exclamation was in context of Russia-EU relations, but generally illustrates his attitude towards institutional pluralism.
2. Dmitri Trenin, ‘Legacy of Vladimir Putin’, Carnegie Moscow Centre (October 2007), /en/print/76874-print, 3.
3. Archie Brown, ‘Ideas, Interests and Institutions in the Soviet and Russian Transition’, presented to the AAASS (Toronto, 20–23 November 2003), p. 26.
4. For a bibliography of Archie Brown’s work from 1969 to 2004, annotated by Julie Newton, see Alex Pravda, ed., Leading Russia ( Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005 ), pp. 275–94.
5. B. Guy Peters, Institutional Theory in Political Science: The ‘New Institutionalism’ ( London: Continuum Press, 2005 ), p. 4.