1st Edition
Building The Russian State Institutional Crisis And The Quest For Democratic Governance
By Valerie Sperling
Copyright 2000
260 Pages
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Routledge
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Routledge
288 Pages
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Routledge
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Has the Russian state managed to lay the institutional groundwork for long-term stability and democratic governance? In Building the Russian State , Valerie Sperling assemblies a group of cutting-edge scholars to critically assess the crises in Russia's transitional institutions. Part I of the book shows that Russia's political elites are less focused on serving public interests than on enriching... Read more
Preface -- Introduction: The Domestic and International Obstacles to State-Building in Russia -- The Elite: Ruling in Whose Interests? -- The "Use and Abuse" of Russia's Energy Resources: Implications for State-Society Relations -- Do the People Rule? The Use of Referenda in Russia -- The Divided Russian Elite: How Russia's Transition Produced a Counter-Elite -- The State: Weak Institutions and Crumbling Capacity -- Is the Russian State Coping with Organized Crime and Corruption? -- State Dysfunctionality, Institutional Decay, and the Russian Military -- Is the Center Too Weak or Too Strong in the Russian Federation? -- Liberal Transformation: Labor and the Russian State -- The Executive Deception: Superpresidentialism and the Degradation of Russian Politics -- Russian Courts: Enforcing the Rule of Law? -- Stability from Without? International Donors and “Good Governance” Strategies in Russia*
Biography
Sperling, Valerie
