1st Edition
State-building A Comparative Study of Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, and Russia
By Verena Fritz
Copyright 2007
394 Pages
by
Central European University Press
394 Pages
by
Central European University Press
Looks at the process of state-building in Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, and Russia from a political economy and institutional perspective. Weak and distorted state capacity has come to be widely recognized as a key obstacle to successful transformation—including economic modernization and growth as well as the consolidation of democracy. However, so far little systematic research has been carried... Read more
Abbreviations, List of Tables and graphs, Acknowledgements, Introduction, Chapter 1 State- and institution-building – a framework for analysis, Chapter 3 The dynamic of change: state-building as institution-building, Chapter 4 A model of post-Soviet state-building trajectories, Chapter 5 State-building in the post-Soviet region, Chapter 6 Ukraine—from Soviet breakdown to disordered independence, Chapter 7 A new trajectory taking shape, Chapter 8 The second transition in Ukraine, Chapter 9 Averting institutional change: the case of Belarus, Chapter 10 Lithuania: moving towards Western models, Chapter 11 The ‘authoritarianizing’ route to recovery: the case of Russian tax reform, Chapter 12 Conclusion, Appendix, Bibliography, Index
Biography
Verena Fritz is a research fellow with the Overseas Development Institute in London. She works and publishes on state-building, governance (including public financial management), and corruption from a comparative perspective – with a special interest in countries of the former Soviet Union.
