Abstract
Most work on Russian political parties to date has focused on describing the features of the party system rather than using the Russian case to test contending theories of party development. An approach to the analysis based on candidate selection for the single‐member districts in the Russian State Duma elections of 1993 and 1995 allows the use of Russian data to test general theories of party development. A study of changes in party candidate recruitment patterns over time, combined with analysis of where parties chose to run candidates and what kinds of individuals were selected to represent the different parties, allows the testing of specific hypotheses and proves revealing. Explanations of party selection behaviour that focus on the internal politics of the parties (such as the degree of cohesiveness of the parliamentary parties) account for Russian party nomination behaviour better than environmental factors.
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