{"product_id":"resisting-the-state-reform-and-retrenchment-in-post-soviet-russia-hardback-9780521824637","title":"Resisting the State; Reform and Retrenchment in Post-Soviet Russia (Hardback) 9780521824637","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eResisting the State\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eReform and Retrenchment in Post-Soviet Russia\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis book looks at the issue of governance capability by using post-communist Russia as an example.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eKathryn Stoner-Weiss (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521824637, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 19 June 2006\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e182 pages, 15 tables\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.4 cm, 0.44 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'The book is a must-read for scholars of nationalism wishing to broaden their understanding of Russian federalism.'  Ab Imperio\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eWhy do new, democratizing states often find it so difficult to actually govern? Why do they so often fail to provide their beleaguered populations with better access to public goods and services? Using original and unusual data, this book uses post-communist Russia as a case in examining what the author calls this broader 'weak state syndrome' in many developing countries. Through interviews with over 800 Russian bureaucrats in 72 of Russia's 89 provinces, and a highly original database on patterns of regional government non-compliance to federal law and policy, the book demonstrates that resistance to Russian central authority not so much ethnically based (as others have argued) as much as generated by the will of powerful and wealthy regional political and economic actors seeking to protect assets they had acquired through Russia's troubled transition out of communism.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e1. W(h)ither the Russian State?\u003cbr\u003e 2. Apparatchiki into 'Entrepreneurchiki': the sources of Russia's weak central state\u003cbr\u003e 3. Governing Russia: patterns of regional resistance\u003cbr\u003e 4. Inside the Russian State: assessing infrastructural power in the provinces\u003cbr\u003e 5. Retrenchment over reform: obstacles to the central state in the periphery\u003cbr\u003e 6. Weak party system, weak central state\u003cbr\u003e 7. The comparative implications of Russia's weak state syndrome.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Comparative politics [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Comparative politics\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Comparative%20politics%20%5BJPB%5D%22\"\u003eJPB\u003c\/a\u003e], Regional studies [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Regional studies\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Regional%20studies%20%5BGTB%5D%22\"\u003eGTB\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46265179865368,"sku":"9780521824637","price":57.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521824637i.jpg?v=1692020226","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/resisting-the-state-reform-and-retrenchment-in-post-soviet-russia-hardback-9780521824637","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}