| Description |
1 online resource (333 p.) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Thieves, Opportunists, and Autocrats: Building Regulatory States in Russia and Kazakhstan -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- List of Frequently Used Abbreviations -- Note on Translation and Transliteration -- Introduction -- Why Russia and Kazakhstan? -- The Regulatory State in Autocratic Regimes: Definitions and the Argument -- Thieves and Autocrats -- The Opportunists -- Data, Methods, and Anecdotes -- The Roadmap -- 1 Regulatory State-Building and Authoritarian Survival -- Separating Regulatory Policy and Its Implementation |
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Bureaucratic Discretion and the Business Climate -- Business Responses -- Politicians' Dilemma -- State Control of Bureaucracy -- Empirical Implications and Hypotheses -- Regulations and Economic Outcomes -- Regulations and Corruption -- Administrative Resources and Economic Outcomes -- Discretionary Power and Political Survival -- Summary -- 2 The Evolution of the Russian Regulatory State: Regulatory Vacuum, Regulatory Maze, and Regulatory Guillotine -- Formal Documents and State Regulatory Functions -- Regulatory Corpus -- Russian Regulatory State |
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Economic Liberalization and the Regulatory Vacuum of the 1990s -- Successes and Failures of Alexey Kudrin's Reforms -- Administrative Reforms -- Continuing Simplification of Regulatory Procedures -- Continuing Regulatory Failures -- The Regulatory Guillotine -- Regional and Municipal Regulations -- Sources of Variation in Regional and Municipal Regulations -- Regulatory Specificity -- Conclusion -- 3 Regulatory Details and Economic Development in Kazakhstan -- Kazakh Regulatory State -- Reforms of Economic Governance -- Administrative and Civil Service Reforms |
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Development of the Regulatory Corpus -- Quantifying Regulatory Change -- Assessing Bureaucratic Discretion -- Testing Economic Effects of Discretion -- Modeling Fixed Capital Investment -- Modeling Small Business Activity and Revenue -- Endogeneity -- Streamlining Government Operations and Business Development -- Conclusion -- 4 Bureaucratic Discretion and State Capacity in Russian Regions -- State Capacity -- Regulatory Burden, Administrative Capacity, and Business Climate -- Economic Outcomes: Capital Investment and the SME Sector -- Regional Variation in Regulatory Institutions |
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Measuring Administrative Capacity -- Statistical Analysis -- Modeling Fixed Capital Investment -- Modeling SME Development -- Modeling Small Business Revenues -- Conclusion -- 5 Institutional Controls and Autocratic Survival -- Russia and Kazakhstan Between Discretion and Constraint -- Kazakhstan -- Russia -- Discretion and Political Survival -- Data and Measurement -- Kazakhstan -- Russia -- Regional Protests in Russia -- Conclusion -- 6 Bureaucratic Discretion and Business Climate around the World -- Macro-level Measures of Discretion, the Business Climate, and Regulations -- Discretion |
| Summary |
This book reconciles the conflicting evidence of simultaneous improvements in the governance of post-Soviet states and the unmistakable signs of growing predation and systemic corruption. To better understand how corruption and statism can coincide with improved governance, Thieves, Opportunists, and Autocrats focuses on the varying ways in which legislatures and bureaucrats have drafted regulatory policy--the state's key economic policy tool in capitalist socieites--and implemented it in Russia and Kazakhstan |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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Business Climate |
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Trade regulation -- Russia (Federation)
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Post-communism -- Economic aspects -- Russia (Federation)
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Political corruption -- Russia (Federation)
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Trade regulation -- Kazakhstan
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Post-communism -- Economic aspects -- Kazakhstan
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Political corruption -- Kazakhstan
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Political corruption.
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Post-communism -- Economic aspects.
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Trade regulation.
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Industry & industrial studies.
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Industry.
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Kazakhstan.
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Russia (Federation)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780197697788 |
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019769778X |
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