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Running to stand still: aggressive immobility and the limits of power in Russia.
- Source :
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Post-Soviet Affairs . Sep2018, Vol. 34 Issue 5, p333-347. 15p. - Publication Year :
- 2018
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Abstract
- The common conception of Russian politics as an elite game of rent-seeking and autocratic management masks a great deal of ‘mundane’ policymaking, and few areas of social and economic activity have escaped at least some degree of reform in recent years. This article takes a closer look at four such reform attempts - involving higher education, welfare, housing and regional policy - in an effort to discern broad patterns governing how and when the state succeeds or fails. The evidence suggests that both masses and mid-level elites actively defend informality - usually interpreted in the literature as an agent-led response to deinstitutionalization and the breakdown of structure - creating a strong brake on state power. More than a quarter century into the post-Soviet period, this pattern of “aggressive immobility” - the purposeful and concerted defense by citizens of a weakly institutionalized state - has in fact become an entrenched, structural element in Russian politics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *HIGHER education
RUSSIAN politics & government, 1991-
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1060586X
- Volume :
- 34
- Issue :
- 5
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Post-Soviet Affairs
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 131660459
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/1060586X.2018.1500095