Reforming the State Without Changing the Model of Power?: On Administrative Reform in Post-Socialist Countries

by Oleinik; Anton

• ISBN13: 9780415466189
• ISBN10: 0415466180
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781317968382
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-01-15
• Publisher: Routledge
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Summary

This book considers administrative reform in post-socialist countries in the context of power and domination, to clarify why reforms failed in Russia and other post-Soviet countries, yet were positive in Baltic States and East European countries. Russias reform is compared to that of Ukraine, Bulgaria, Poland, Germany and North America.

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors	p. vii
Introduction: Putting Administrative Reform in a Broader Context of Power	p. 1
Domination, Power and Authority in Russia: Basic Characteristics and Forms	p. 18
The Changing Role of the State and State Bureaucracy in the Context of Public Administration Reforms: Russian and Foreign Experience	p. 38
The Institutional Framework for Sustainable Development in Eastern Europe	p. 55
New Social Movements is Russia: A Challenge to the Dominant Model of Power Relationships?	p. 69
Time Matters: Adapting to Transformation	p. 91
Law in Public Administration: How Russia Differs	p. 116
Rationalizing or Empowering Bureaucrats? Tax Administration Reform in Poland and Russia	p. 137
Existing and Potential Constraints Limiting State Servants' Opportunism: The Russian Case	p. 157
Basis for Regime Legitimacy: Study of Attitudes Toward Privatization in Ukraine	p. 191
The Role of the State in Catch-Up Modernization: The post-1789 Reforms in the Germanies and the Russian 'Great Reforms' in Comparative Perspective	p. 215
Index	p. 237
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