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Local Heroes

The Political Economy of Russian Regional Governance

By: Kathryn Stoner-Weiss

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Local Heroes

The Political Economy of Russian Regional Governance

By: Kathryn Stoner-Weiss

In Local Heroes, Kathryn Stoner-Weiss analyzes a crucial aspect of one of the great dramas of modern times--the reconstitution of the Russian polity and economy after more than seventy years of communist rule. This is the first book to look comprehensively and systematically at Russia's democratic transition at the local level. Its goal is to explain why some of the new political institutions in the Russian provinces weathered the monumental changes of the early 1990s better than others. Using newly available economic, political, and sociological data to test various theories of democratization and institutional performance, Stoner-Weiss finds that traditional theories are unable to explain variations in regional government performance in Russia. Local Heroes argues that the legacy of the former economic system influenced the operation of new political institutions in important and often unexpected ways. Past institutional structures, specifically the concentration of the regional economy, promoted the formation of political and economic coalitions within a new proto-democratic institutional framework. These coalitions have had positive effects on governmental performance. For democratic theorists, this may be a surprising conclusion. However, it is possible, as Stoner-Weiss suggests, that the needs of democratic development may be different in the short run than in the long run. The "local heroes" of today may be impediments to the further development of democracy tomorrow. This provocative work, solidly grounded in research and theory, will interest anyone concerned with issues of economic and political transition.

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Princeton University Press

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0691228043

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Resisting the State

Reform and Retrenchment in Post-Soviet Russia

By: Kathryn Stoner-Weiss

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Resisting the State

Reform and Retrenchment in Post-Soviet Russia

By: Kathryn Stoner-Weiss

Why do new, democratizing states often find it so difficult to actually govern? Why do they so often fail to provide their beleaguered populations with better access to public goods and services? Using original and unusual data, this book uses post-communist Russia as a case in examining what the author calls this broader 'weak state syndrome' in many developing countries. Through interviews with over 800 Russian bureaucrats in 72 of Russia's 89 provinces, and a highly original database on patterns of regional government non-compliance to federal law and policy, the book demonstrates that resistance to Russian central authority not so much ethnically based (as others have argued) as much as generated by the will of powerful and wealthy regional political and economic actors seeking to protect assets they had acquired through Russia's troubled transition out of communism.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139455710

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Local Heroes

The Political Economy of Russian Regional Governance

By: Kathryn Stoner-Weiss

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The Political Economy of Russian Regional Governance

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Resisting the State

Reform and Retrenchment in Post-Soviet Russia

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Reform and Retrenchment in Post-Soviet Russia

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Looks at the issue of governance capability by using post-communist Russia as an example.

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Reform and Retrenchment in Post-Soviet Russia

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Democratization and Authoritarian Party Survival

Mexico's PRI

By: Joy Kathryn Langston

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Democratization and Authoritarian Party Survival

Mexico's PRI

By: Joy Kathryn Langston

By focusing on political institutions to understand the new power-sharing agreement between the national party headquarters and the party's governors, this work explores why Mexico's hegemonic PRI was able to survive out of power after it was ousted from the executive in 2000.

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Oxford University Press

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0190628529

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Russia Resurrected

Its Power and Purpose in a New Global Order

By: Kathryn E. Stoner

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Russia Resurrected

Its Power and Purpose in a New Global Order

By: Kathryn E. Stoner

This book refutes the idea that Russia plays a weak hand well in international politics. The book argues instead that Russia under Vladimir Putin's regime may not be as weak as is sometimes thought in the West. It takes a multi-dimensional approach in assessing Russian state power in international relations, going beyond metrics of power like relative strength of the economy, human capital, and size of the military, to also include the policy weight or importance of Russian firms and industries, as well as where geographically, Russian influence has spread globally. The book includes fresh empirical data on the Russian economy, demography and human capital, and conventional military and nuclear weaponry capacities in Russia relative to other great powers like China and the United States. The book argues that realpolitik alone does not explain Russian foreign policy choices under Putin. Rather, Putin's patronal autocratic regime and the need for social stability plays an important role in understanding when and why Russian power is projected in the 21st century"--

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0190860715

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Local Heroes

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Democratization and Authoritarian Party Survival

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Russia Resurrected

Russia Resurrected

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