State-building : a comparative study of Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, and Russia /

Looks at the process of state-building in Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, and Russia from a political economy and institutional perspective. Explains state weakness and distortions that are widely recognized key obstacles to economic success and democratic consolidation. Focuses on the extraction and e...

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Hlavní autor: Fritz, Verena
Médium: Licensed eBooks
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Budapest ; New York : Central European University Press 2007.
On-line přístup:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7829/j.ctv10tq54d
Obsah:
  • The state and state-building : a framework for analysis
  • A framework for assessing states : size, capacity, and quality
  • The dynamic of change : state-building as institution building
  • A model of post-Soviet state-building trajectories
  • State-building in the post-Soviet region
  • Ukraine : from Soviet breakdown to disordered independence
  • A new trajectory taking shape
  • The second transition in Ukraine
  • Averting institutional change : the case of Belarus
  • Lithuania : moving towards Western models
  • The "authoritarianizing" route to recovery : the case of Russian tax reform
  • Conclusion.