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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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Budapest ; New York :
Central European University Press
2007.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7829/j.ctv10tq54d |
Table of Contents:
- 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.