State-building : A Comparative Study of Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, and Russia /

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Fritz, Verena
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Central European University Press, 2007
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Post-communism
Politics and government
Finance, Public
Democracy
Finance, Public > Former Soviet republics.
Post-communism > Former Soviet republics.
Democracy > Former Soviet republics.
Soviet Union > Former Soviet republics
Former Soviet republics > Politics and government.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The state and state-building definitions and debates
  • The state and state-building
  • Fiscal perspectives on the state
  • Regimes and states : the missing link in the transition debate
  • Potential contributions of post-Soviet cases to general theories of state-building
  • A framework for assessing states: size, capacity, and quality
  • The three aspects of the state
  • States as problems and solutions under various regimes
  • The size of the state
  • State capacity : decision-making, implementation, and control
  • The dynamic of change : state-building as institution building
  • State-building as institutional change : deterioration and re-building
  • The costs and risks of institutional change
  • Types of institutional change
  • The importance of formal-informal discrepancies
  • A model of post-Soviet state-building trajectories
  • The casual model
  • Individual and casual factors
  • State-building trajectories
  • Summary
  • State-building in the post-Soviet region
  • The Soviet state and its fiscal system
  • Institutional deterioration : perestroika and the break-up of the Soviet Union
  • State-building in the post-Soviet universe
  • Exploring some quantitative relationships : level of development and political consolidation
  • Summary
  • From Soviet breakdown to disordered independence
  • From Soviet republic to independent Ukraine
  • The great depression : economic crisis after independence
  • The challenge of nation-building
  • Struggles for power and institutional weakness
  • A fiscal system in crisis [confusion in text about 5th subtitle]
  • The first steps of state-building
  • A new trajectory taking shape
  • Economic stabilization and virtualization
  • The bid for presidential consolidation
  • State-society relations the rise of political-business groups and weak
  • Democratic accountability
  • External factors
  • Stabilizing the fiscal system
  • [see error here on title 4.3]
  • Shaping and distorting the new state
  • The second transition
  • From hybrid regime to unconsolidated democracy
  • Economic recovery and socio-economic policies of the new government
  • The power of civil society and the continuing importance of opaque groups
  • External influences on the rise
  • Fiscal developments : reforms and revelations
  • From Kuchma to Yushenko : re-tooling the state
  • Summary: the state-building process in Ukraine as reflected in the fiscal system
  • Averting institutional change : the case of Belarus
  • Political developments : from liberalization to democracy
  • Economic developments : preserving the command economy
  • Belarus' international situation
  • State-society relations in Belarus
  • Fiscal policies
  • Belarus : the strong state that does not want to be a state
  • Lithuania : moving towards a Western model
  • Political developments : early elite re-configuration and after
  • Economic developments : the great leap from communism to capitalism
  • State-society relations in Lithuania
  • Fiscal and budgetary system
  • State capacity and its determinants in Lithuania
  • The "authoritarianizing" route to recovery : the case of Russian tax reform
  • The stage : political power and oligarchic groups
  • The economic background to reform
  • State-society relations
  • Fiscal crisis and tax reform : surveying explanations
  • From drag to leap : the gestation and eventual success of tax reform
  • From prolonged deterioration to unfinished recovery : the Russian path of state-building
  • Conclusion

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