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Local heroes : the political economy of Russian regional governance
- Title
- Local heroes : the political economy of Russian regional governance / Kathryn Stoner-Weiss.
- Author
- Stoner, Kathryn, 1965-
- Publication
- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©1997.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | JS6117.3.A3 S76 1997 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xvii, 240 pages : illustrations, map; 24 cm
- Summary
- In Local Heroes, Kathryn Stoner-Weiss analyzes a crucial aspect of one of the great dramas of modern times - the reconstitution of the Russian polity and economy after more than seventy years of communist rule. This is the first book to look comprehensively and systematically at Russia's democratic transition at the local level. Its goal is to explain why some of the new political institutions in the Russian provinces weathered the monumental changes of the early 1990s better than others. Using newly available economic, political, and sociological data to test various theories of democratization and institutional performance, Stoner-Weiss finds that traditional theories are unable to explain variations in regional government performance in Russia.
- Subject
- Since 1991
- Local government > Russia (Federation)
- Representative government and representation > Russia (Federation)
- Regional planning > Russia (Federation)
- Economic policy
- Local government
- Regional planning
- Representative government and representation
- Demokratie
- Regionalismus
- Regionalplanung
- Regionalverwaltung
- Regionalwirtschaft
- Aufsatzsammlung
- Russia (Federation) > Economic policy > 1991-
- Russia (Federation)
- Russland
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-233) and index.
- Contents
- Ch. 1. Introduction -- Ch. 2. The Political Economy of Government Performance -- Ch. 3. Decentralization and Democratization: The Development of Regional Government Institutions -- Ch. 4. Who Governs Russia Well? Measuring Institutional Performance -- Ch. 5. Testing Theories of Performance Variation: Economic, Social-Structural, and Cultural Hypotheses -- Ch. 6. The Political Economy of Government Performance: Testing the Theory -- Ch. 7. Democracy and the Market at Risk? -- App. A. Regional Government Structures -- App. B. Cross-Tabulations of Constituent Satisfaction with Regional Government by Urban and Rural Dwellers and by Levels of Education.
- ISBN
- 0691011958
- 9780691011950
- 0691092818
- 9780691092812
- LCCN
- 97007355
- OCLC
- ocm36477037
- 36477037
- SCSB-348835
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library