The Politics of Inequality in Russia

ISBN-13: 9781107096417 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 234 str.

Thomas F. Remington

Opis

This book explains why the most nondemocratic regions have the lowest incomes, the lowest inequality and the highest poverty.

Recenzje

'Thomas Remington has written an ingenious book on the relationship between economic inequality and democracy, and produced what may be the best book on the political economy of Russia that we have.' Political Studies

Spis treści

1. The political sources of income inequality in Russia; 2. Employment, earnings, and welfare in the Russian transition; 3. Regime diversity in the Russian regions; 4. Democracy and inequality in the Russian regions; 5. Regional regimes and the labor market: evidence from the NOBUS survey; 6. Helping hands or grabbing hands?: Government-business relations in the regions; 7. Accounting for regime differences; 8. After the crash.