Federalism and Regional Policy in Contemporary Russia

ISBN-13: 9781472461506 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 188 str.

Andrey Starodubtsev

Opis

How do Russian leaders balance the need to decentralize governance in a socially and politically complex country with the need to guarantee political control of the state? Since the early 2000 s Russian federal authorities have arranged a system of political control on regional elites and their leaders providing a police control of special bodies subordinated by the federal centre on policy implementation in the regions. Different mechanisms of fiscal federalism and investment policy were used to ensure regional elites loyalty and this competitive authoritarianism created a politically centralized but administratively decentralized system. Asking clear, direct and theoretically informed questions about the relationship between federalism, decentralisation and authoritarianism, Andrey Stardubtsev explores the political survival of authoritarian leaders, the determinants of policy formulation and theories of federalism and decentralization to construct new frameworks for studying territorial governance across a range of authoritarian political systems."

Spis treści

Preface. Introduction. Chapter 1. Tertius gaudens: what is wrong with Russian federalism? Chapter 2. Why has regional development in Russia failed? Chapter 3. Who, how, when and how much? Factors of Redistribution of Intergovernmental Transfers in Russia. Chapter 4. Decentralize but not federalize: coordination, subordination and control in Russian territorial governance. Conclusion.

O autorze

Andrey Starodubtsev is a postdoctoral researcher at the Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland. He collaborates with the Center for Modernization Studies, European University at St Petersburg and the Department of Political Science, National Research University Higher School of Economics - St Petersburg, Russia. His expertise covers the issues of federalism and regional policy as well as the problems of governance and modernization in contemporary Russia.