This book reconciles the conflicting evidence of simultaneous improvements in the governance of post-Soviet states and the unmistakable signs of growing predation and systemic corruption. To better understand how corruption and statism can coincide with improved governance, Thieves, Opportunists, and Autocrats focuses on the varying ways in which legislatures and bureaucrats have drafted regulatory policy--the state's key economic policy tool in capitalist socieites--and implemented it in Russia and Kazakhstan.
This book reconciles the conflicting evidence of simultaneous improvements in the governance of post-Soviet states and the unmistakable signs of growing predation and systemic corruption. To better understand how corruption and statism can coincide with improved governance, Thieves, Opportunists, and Autocrats focuses on the varying ways in which legislatures and bureaucrats have drafted regulatory policy--the state's key economic policy tool in capitalist socieites--and implemented it in Russia and Kazakhstan.
Dinissa Duvanova is Associate Professor in International Relations at Lehigh University. Her research focuses on the political economy, bureaucratic politics, and technology-enabled forms of political participation in Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia. Her publications appear in British Journal of Political Science, Comparative Politics, Journal of Comparative Economics and World Development and other journals. Her book Building Business in Post-Communist Russia, Eastern Europe and Eurasia: Collective Goods, Selective Incentives, and Predatory States (Cambridge University Press, February 2013) was awarded the Ed A. Hewett Prize for outstanding publication on the political economy of Russia, Eurasia and/or Eastern Europe.
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Introduction Ch. 1 Regulatory State Building and Authoritarian Survival Ch. 2 The Evolution of the Russian Regulatory State Ch. 3 Regulatory Details and Economic Development in Kazakhstan Ch. 4 Discretion and State Capacity in Russian Regions Ch. 5 Institutional Controls and Autocratic Survival Ch. 6 Discretion and Business Climate around the World Ch. 7 Theory of Authoritarian Regulatory State Appendix A Appendix B Appendix C Appendix D Appendix E Bibliography
Introduction Ch. 1 Regulatory State Building and Authoritarian Survival Ch. 2 The Evolution of the Russian Regulatory State Ch. 3 Regulatory Details and Economic Development in Kazakhstan Ch. 4 Discretion and State Capacity in Russian Regions Ch. 5 Institutional Controls and Autocratic Survival Ch. 6 Discretion and Business Climate around the World Ch. 7 Theory of Authoritarian Regulatory State Appendix A Appendix B Appendix C Appendix D Appendix E Bibliography
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