The State after Communism Governance in the New Russia |
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| Contribution by:
| Colton, Timothy J.
Cook, Linda J.
Easter, Gerald M.
Frye, Timothy
Herrera, Yoshiko M.
Holmes, Stephen
Luong, Pauline Jones
Remington, Thomas F.
Stoner-Weiss, Kathryn
Treisman, Daniel
Weinthal, Erika |
| ISBN: | 978-0-7425-3941-9 |
| Publication Date: | Aug 2006 |
| Publisher: | Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $136.00USD $136.00 |
Book Description:
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After the fall of communism in Russia, most observers took for granted that the structures of the new democratic state would be effective agents of the popular will. This assumption was overly optimistic. Eleven respected contributors examine governance in post-Soviet Russia in comparative context, investigating the roots, characteristics, and consequences of the crisis as a whole and its manifestations in the specific realms of tax collection, statistics, federalism, social policy,...
More DescriptionAfter the fall of communism in Russia, most observers took for granted that the structures of the new democratic state would be effective agents of the popular will. This assumption was overly optimistic. Eleven respected contributors examine governance in post-Soviet Russia in comparative context, investigating the roots, characteristics, and consequences of the crisis as a whole and its manifestations in the specific realms of tax collection, statistics, federalism, social policy, regulation of the banks, currency exchange, energy policy, and parliamentary oversight of the bureaucracy.