Valerie Sperling

Building The Russian State (eBook, PDF)

Institutional Crisis And The Quest For Democratic Governance

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book assesses the crises in Russia's transitional institutions. It focuses on the growth of organized crime, the decay of the military, the precariousness of the Russian Federation, the weakness of the labor movement, and the authoritarianism of the super-presidential political system.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Februar 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429970504
• Artikelnr.: 54038034

Autorenporträt

Valerie Sperling is an assistant professor of government and international relations at Clark University, and she is an Associate at the Davis centre for Russian Studies, Harvard University.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I The Elite: Ruling in Whose Interests?
1 The "Use and Abuse" of Russia's Energy Resources: Implications for State-Society Relations
2 Do the People Rule? The Use of Referenda in Russia
3 The Divided Russian Elite: How Russia's Transition Produced a Counter-Elite
Part II The State: Weak Institutions and Crumbling Capacity
4 Is the Russian State Coping with Organized Crime and Corruption?
5 State Dysfunctionality
Institutional Decay
and the Russian Military
6 Is the Center Too Weak or Too Strong in the Russian Federation?
7 Liberal Transformation: Labor and the Russian State
8 The Executive Deception: Superpresidentialism and the Degradation of Russian Politics
9 Russian Courts: Enforcing the Rule of Law?
10 Stability from Without? International Donors and "Good Governance" Strategies in Russia