Reforming the State Without Changing the Model of Power?: On Administrative Reform in Post-Socialist Countries

ISBN-13: 9781138997158 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 258 str.

Anton Oleinik;¬Abar;¬Abar

Opis

This book considers administrative reform in post-socialist countries in the context of power and domination, to clarify why reforms failed in Russia and other post-Soviet countries, yet were positive in Baltic States and East European countries. Russia’s reform is compared to that of the Ukraine, Bulgaria, Poland, Germany and North America.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Putting Administrative Reform in a Broader Context of Power  2. Domination, Power and Authority in Russia: Basic Characteristics and Forms  3. Changing Role of the State and State Bureaucracy in the Context of Public Administration Reforms: Russian and Foreign Experience  4. Institutional Framework for Sustainable Development in Eastern Europe  5. Law in Public Administration: How Russia Differs?  6. Rationalizing or Empowering Bureaucrats? Tax-Administration Reform in Post-Communist Poland and Russia  7. New Social Movements in Russia: A Challenge to the Dominant Model of Power Relationships?  8. Time Matters: Adapting to Consequences of Transformation  9. Existing and Potential Constraints Limiting State Servants’ Opportunism: The Russian Case  10. Basis for Regime Legitimacy: study of attitudes toward privatization in Ukraine  11. The Role of the State in Catch-Up Modernization – The post-1789 Reforms in the Germanies and the Russian ‘Great Reforms’ in Comparative Perspective

O autorze

Anton Oleinik is Associate Professor of Sociology at Memorial University of Newfoundland and Senior Research Associate, Institute of Economics, Russian Academy of Sciences.