The Politics of Local Government in Russia

by Evans, Alfred B., Jr.; Gel'man, Vladimir; Brie, Michael; Matsuzato, Kimitaka; Pearson, Thomas S.; Porter, Thomas; Seregny, Scott; Slider, Darrell; Webb, John; Wollmann, Hellmut; Young, John F.

• ISBN13: 9780742524798
• ISBN10: 0742524795
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-06-03
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

According to the Constitution of the Russian Federation, adopted in 1993, local autonomy is one of the fundamental principles of the constitutional system. The Politics of Local Government in Russia aims to provide a dedicated and comprehensive discussion of the pursuit of local self-government in contemporary Russia where local refers to the third tier of government, beyond federal and regional. Some of the ablest scholars in the field focus on the existing institutional and social climate for municipal and district level government in Russia while placing recent reforms in a comparative and historical perspective.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
Introduction: The Politics of Local Government in Russia: A Framework for Analysis	1	(18)
Vladimir Gel'man
Part I: Historical Roots
1 The Zemstvo Reconsidered	19	(26)
Thomas Earl Porter and Scott Seregny
2 Ministerial Conflict and the Politics of Zemstvo Reform, 1864-1905	45	(23)
Thomas S. Pearson
3 Contemporary Russian Scholars' Changing Views on Local Government in Late Tsarist Russia	68	(17)
Alfred B. Evans Jr.
Part II: Local Government and Post-Soviet Politics
4 Federal Policies toward Local Government in Russia: The Process of Institution Building	85	(19)
Vladimir Gelman
5 Institution Building of Local Self-Government in Russia: Between Legal Design and Power Politics	104	(24)
Hellmut Wollmann
6 Local Budgets and Intergovernmental Finance in the Russian Federation	128	(17)
John F. Young
Part III: Local Government in Russia's Regions
7 Governors versus Mayors: The Regional Dimension of Russian Local Government	145	(24)
Darrell Slider
8 Regional Politics and Municipal Building: The Reshuffling of Local Chief Administrators in Russia, 1990-1996	169	(34)
Kirnitaka Matsuzato
9 The Moscow Political Regime: The Emergence of a New Urban Political Machine	203	(32)
Michael Brie
10 Energy Development and Local Government in Western Siberia	235	(39)
John C. Webb
11 Conclusion: Toward a New Politics of Local Government in Russia	274	(14)
Vladimir Gel'rnan and Alfred B. Evans Jr.
Index	288	(11)
About the Contributors	299