The State after Communism Governance in the New Russia

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

• ISBN13: 9780742539426
• ISBN10: 0742539423
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-08-11
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

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, regulation of the banks, currency exchange, energy policy, and parliamentary oversight of the bureaucracy.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	vii
List of Tables	ix
1 Introduction: Governance and Postcommunist Politics	1	(20)
Timothy J. Colton
2 Building Fiscal Capacity	21	(32)
Gerald Easter
3 The Transformation of State Statistics	53	(34)
Yoshiko M. Herrera
4 Resistance to the Central State on the Periphery	87	(34)
Kathryn Stoner-Weiss
5 State Capacity and Pension Provision	121	(34)
Linda J. Cook
6 Governing the Banking Sector	155	(32)
Timothy Frye
7 Evaluating Exchange Rate Management	187	(38)
Daniel Treisman
8 The Paradox of Energy Sector Reform	225	(36)
Erika Weinthal and Pauline Jones Luong
9 Democratization, Separation of Powers, and State Capacity	261	(38)
Thomas F. Remington
10 Conclusion: The State of the State in Putin's Russia	299	(12)
Stephen Holmes
Index	311	(10)
About the Contributors	321