Local Power and Post-Soviet Politics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Local Power and Post-Soviet Politics write by Theodore H. Friedgut. This book was released on 2016-09-16. Local Power and Post-Soviet Politics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An analysis of local legislative and budgetary politics during the late Soviet and post-Soviet period with case studies of electoral behaviour, distribution processes, political contestation, and institutional development.
Post-Soviet Power
Post-Soviet Power - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Post-Soviet Power write by Susanne A. Wengle. This book was released on 2015-02-05. Post-Soviet Power available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Post-Soviet Power tells the story of the Russian electricity system and examines the politics of its transformation from a ministry to a market. Susanne A. Wengle shifts our focus away from what has been at the center of post-Soviet political economy - corruption and the lack of structural reforms - to draw attention to political struggles to establish a state with the ability to govern the economy. She highlights the importance of hands-on economic planning by authorities - post-Soviet developmentalism - and details the market mechanisms that have been created. This book argues that these observations urge us to think of economies and political authority as mutually constitutive, in Russia and beyond. Whereas political science often thinks of market arrangements resulting from political institutions, Russia's marketization demonstrates that political status is also produced by the market arrangements that actors create. Taking this reflexivity seriously suggests a view of economies and markets as constructed and contingent entities.
Local Power and Post-Soviet Politics
Local Power and Post-Soviet Politics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Local Power and Post-Soviet Politics write by Theodore H. Friedgut. This book was released on 2016-09-16. Local Power and Post-Soviet Politics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An analysis of local legislative and budgetary politics during the late Soviet and post-Soviet period with case studies of electoral behaviour, distribution processes, political contestation, and institutional development.
Politics and Legitimacy in Post-Soviet Eurasia
Politics and Legitimacy in Post-Soviet Eurasia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Politics and Legitimacy in Post-Soviet Eurasia write by Martin Brusis. This book was released on 2016-01-26. Politics and Legitimacy in Post-Soviet Eurasia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Political legitimacy has become a scarce resource in Russia and other post-Soviet states. Their capacity to deliver prosperity has suffered from economic crisis, war in Ukraine and confrontation with the West. Will nationalism and repression enable political regimes to survive? This book studies the politics of legitimation in Post-Soviet Eurasia.
The Politics of Sub-National Authoritarianism in Russia
The Politics of Sub-National Authoritarianism in Russia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Politics of Sub-National Authoritarianism in Russia write by Cameron Ross. This book was released on 2016-02-24. The Politics of Sub-National Authoritarianism in Russia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. By the end of the 2000s Russia had become an increasingly authoritarian state, which was characterised by the following features: outrageously unfair and fraudulent elections, the existence of weak and impotent political parties, a heavily censored (often self-censored) media, weak rubber-stamping legislatures at the national and sub-national levels, politically subordinated courts, the arbitrary use of the economic powers of the state, and widespread corruption. However, this picture would be incomplete without taking into account the sub-national dimension of these subversive institutions and practices across the regions of the Russian Federation. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, sub-national political developments in Russia became highly diversified and the political map of Russia’s regions became multi-faceted. The period of 2000s demonstrated a drive on the part of the Kremlin to re-centralise politics and governance to the demise of newly-emerging democratic institutions at both the national and sub-national levels. Yet, federalism and regionalism remain key elements of the research agenda in Russian politics, and the overall political map of Russia’s regions is far from being monotonic. Rather, it is similar to a complex multi-piece puzzle, which can only be put together through skilful crafting. The 12 chapters in this collection are oriented towards the generation of more theoretically and empirically solid inferences and provide critical evaluations of the multiple deficiencies in Russia’s sub-national authoritarianism, including: principal-agent problems in the relations between the layers of the ’power vertical’, unresolved issues of regime legitimacy that have resulted from manipulative electoral practices, and the inefficient performance of regional and local governments. The volume brings together a team of international experts on Russian regional politics which includes top scholars from Britain, Canada, Russia and the USA.
