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Protest and the Politics of Blame : The Russian Response to Unpaid Wages /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Javeline, Debra, 1967-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2003.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • The crisis
  • The reaction
  • The puzzle
  • The structure of this book
  • Why blame attribution matters for protest
  • Explanations for protest and passivity in Russia
  • Issue difficulty and blame attribution
  • Blame attribution and collective action theory
  • The importance of blame attribution for human behavior
  • What is a "normal" amount of protest?
  • How much protest is there in Russia?
  • What we can learn from individual-level data
  • Conclusion
  • Wage arrears in Russia: a difficult issue
  • The role of the central authorities
  • The role of regional and local authorities
  • The role of enterprises and enterprise managers
  • The role of the general economic situation and the transition period
  • The role of international organizations and foreign governments
  • The role of the Russian people
  • Other sources of wage arrears
  • Specifying blameworthy individuals and institutions
  • Blame-avoiding strategies
  • Blame-avoiding institutions and circumstances
  • Conclusion
  • Whom Russians blame for wage arrears
  • Multicausality and information overload
  • Measuring the attribution of blame
  • Blame cast widely and inconsistently
  • No clear saviors or solutions
  • What explains the attribution of blame?
  • Conclusion
  • The politics of blame
  • Protesting wage arrears
  • Blame attribution and individual responses to wage arrears
  • Blame attribution and group responses to wage arrears
  • Feedback: protest's influence on blame attribution
  • Conclusion
  • Alternative explanations for the Russian response to wage arrears
  • Economic arguments
  • Psychological arguments
  • Cultural arguments
  • Organizational arguments
  • Opportunities and constraints
  • Other explanations for protest and passivity
  • The robust relationship between blame and protest
  • Conclusion
  • Implications
  • The study of blame attribution and collective action theory
  • Blame and protest in comparative perspective
  • The unlikeliness of social unrest in Russia
  • Alcoholism, depression, and learned helplessness
  • Scapegoating and demagoguery
  • Appendix A. how the survey was conducted
  • Appendix B. survey questions.