Authoritarian Modernization in Russia (eBook, ePUB)

Ideas, Institutions, and Policies
Redaktion: Gel'Man, Vladimir

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Post-Communist Russia is an instance of the phenomenon of authoritarian modernization project, which is perceived as a set of policies intended to achieve a high level of economic development, while political freedoms remain beyond the current modernization agenda or are postponed to a distant future. This volume encourages further discussions about the logic and mechanisms of the authoritarian modernization project in post-Communist Russia and its effects on Russia's politics, economy, and society.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. August 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317177067
• Artikelnr.: 45682111

Autorenporträt

Vladimir Gel'man is a Professor at the Department of Political Science and Sociology, European University at St.Petersburg, and Finland Distinguished Professor at the Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki. He is an author and editor of more than twenty books in Russian and in English, including The Politics of Sub-National Authoritarianism in Russia (Ashgate, 2010), ). He was also a visiting professor at the University of Texas at Austin, the Central European University, Budapest, and the New Economic School, Moscow, and published numerous book chapters and journal articles in Europe-Asia Studies, Post-Soviet Affairs, International Political Science Review, Democratization and others.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Why Not Authoritarian Modernization in Russia? 2. Fathers
versus Sons: Generation Changes and the Ideational Agenda of Reforms in
Late Twentieth-Century Russia 3. The Dilemma of Perception on Russian
Strong State and Demand for Modernization 4. Framing Modernization in
Russian Newspapers: Words, Not Deeds 5. Authoritarianism and Institutional
Decay in Russia: Disruption of Property Rights and the Rule of Law 6.
Russian People's Front and Hybrid Governance Dilemma 7. Social Network
Sites and Political Governance in Russia 8. Russia's Post-Neoliberal
Development Strategy and High-Technology Considerations 9. How does the
Government Implement Unpopular Reforms? Evidence from Education Policy in
Russia 10. Choosing between Bureaucracy and the Reformers: The Russian
Pension Reform of 2001 as a Compromise Squared 11. Labour Reform in Putin's
Russia: Could Modernization Be Democratic?