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Local heroes the political economy of Russian regional governance /

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 democra...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Stoner, Kathryn, 1965- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. ; Chichester : Princeton University Press, 2002.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Tables and Figures
  • Preface
  • Note on Transliteration
  • Local Heroes
  • CHAPTER 1 Introduction
  • CHAPTER 2 The Political Economy of Government Performance
  • CHAPTER 3 Decentralization and Democratization: The Development of Regional Government Institutions
  • CHAPTER 4 Who Governs Russia Well ? Measuring Institutional Performance
  • CHAPTER 5 Testing Theories of Performance Variation: Economic, Social-Structural, and Cultural Hypotheses
  • CHAPTER 6 The Political Economy of Government Performance: Testing the Theory
  • CHAPTER 7 Democracy and the Market at Risk
  • APPENDIX A Regional Government Structures
  • APPENDIX B Cross-Tabulations of Constituent Satisfaction with Regional Government by Urban and Rural Dwellers and by Levels of Education
  • Bibliography
  • Index