Democracy, Civic Culture and Small Business in Russia's Regions: Social Processes in Comparative Historical Perspective

ISBN-13: 9780815364641 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 258 str.

Jo Molly (School of Advanced International Studies O'Neal

Opis

This book adopts a novel analytical approach to understanding how Russia's stalled democratisation is related to the incomplete liberalisation of the economy. Based on extensive original comparative study of Russia’s regions, the book explores the precise channels of interaction that create the mutuality of property rights, entrepreneurship, rule of law, norms of citizenship and liberal democracy. It demonstrates that the extent of democratisation varies across regions, and that this variation is connected to the extent of liberalisation of the economy.

Spis treści

1. Small Business Owners and Regional Democracy 2. Small Business and Regional Democracy: Quantitative Analysis 3. Elaborated Process Mapping and Case Selection 4. The Samara Region: a Tale of Two Cities 5. The Smolensk Region: Small Business and the Uses of Adversity 6. The Rostov Region: Limits of Patrimonial Exchange 7. Fathers and Sons: Entrepreneurship and Elite Transformation in the Perm Region 8. Concluding Arguments

O autorze

Molly O'Neal, who has had a long career as a United States diplomat and State Department official focusing on the countries of the former Soviet Union, is currently a Visiting Scholar at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, USA