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Autocracy and health governance in Russia
The book is the first attempt to investigate how and to what extent authoritarian (personalistic) regimes fail to provide fundamental goods and services. For two decades, Russian authorities spent much effort and money to improve health administration, but most success stories are borderline fake. The failure is by design; because personalistic regimes rely on personalized exchanges and bargains instead of impersonal rules and permanent organizations, all actors put self-interest ahead of patients' needs. It is a severe problem because authoritarian principals proclaim social betterment as their central goal -- and many Russians take such claims at face value -- but incentivize their agents to imitate progress and tolerate slipshod performance. The benefits of this investigation are three-fold. First, the book provides an analytical framework of bad governance rooted in the rational institutionalist tradition and connected to competence-control theory. Second, it gives a general readership interested in how Russia works a sense of the key political players' mindset and the regime-induced constraints under which elites operate. Third, although the book investigates health governance exclusively, its analytical framework is portable to other issue areas and could be applied to explain how and why Russia evolved into an ineffective, coercive, and predatory state under Putin's leadership. Vlad Kravtsov is Associate Professor of Political Science & Law at Spring Hill College, the US...
Ethiopia: from autocracy to revolution
In: Review of African political economy : Occasional publications 1
Bahrain: the modernization of autocracy
In: Westview profiles
In: nations of the contemporary Middle East
World Affairs Online
Autocracy and resistance in the internet age
How do autocratic governments exploit communication technology in their efforts to maintain power? Can prodemocracy activists successfully use that same technology to support the overthrow of autocratic rulers? Rachel Vanderhill addresses these two questions, exploring in detail how social media are both aiding and undermining autocratic regimes in the Middle East, North Africa, and the former Soviet republics.
World Affairs Online
Democracy and autocracy in Eurasia: Georgia in transition
In: Eurasian political economy and public policy studies series
In: Politics
Russian political philosophy: anarchy, authority, autocracy
In: Edinburgh studies in comparative political theory & intellectual history
The Russian autocracy in crisis, 1878 - 1882
In: The Russian series 33