The Politics of Bad Governance in Contemporary Russia
In this book, Vladimir Gel’man considers bad governance as a distinctive politico-economic order that is based on a set of formal and informal rules, norms, and practices quite different from those of good governance. Some countries are governed badly intentionally because the political leaders of t...
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| description | In this book, Vladimir Gel’man considers bad governance as a distinctive politico-economic order that is based on a set of formal and informal rules, norms, and practices quite different from those of good governance. Some countries are governed badly intentionally because the political leaders of these countries establish and maintain rules, norms, and practices that serve their own self-interests. Gel’man considers bad governance as a primarily agency-driven rather than structure-induced phenomenon. He addresses the issue of causes and mechanisms of bad governance in Russia and beyond from a different scholarly optics, which is based on a more general rationale of state-building, political regime dynamics, and policy-making. He argues that although these days, bad governance is almost universally perceived as an anomaly, at least in developed countries, in fact human history is largely a history of ineffective and corrupt governments, while the rule of law and decent state regulatory quality are relatively recent matters of modern history, when they emerged as side effects of state-building. Indeed, the picture is quite the opposite: bad governance is the norm, while good governance is an exception. The problem is that most rulers, especially if their time horizons are short and the external constraints on their behavior are not especially binding, tend to govern their domains in a predatory way because of the prevalence of short-term over long-term incentives. Contemporary Russia may be considered as a prime example of this phenomenon. Using an analysis of case studies of political and policy changes in Russia after the Soviet collapse, Gel’man discusses the logic of building and maintenance of politico-economic order of bad governance in Russia and paths of its possible transformation in a theoretical and comparative perspective. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-818912025-03-22T20:59:25Z The Politics of Bad Governance in Contemporary Russia Gel’man, Vladimir government, bad governance, politics, policy-making, authoritarianism, rent-seeking, rule of law, corruption, technocracy, modernization, socio-economic development, state-building, predatory state, state regulations, ineffectiveness of government, pockets of efficiency, post-Communism, policy entrepreneurship, agency, elites, political leadership, Russia In this book, Vladimir Gel’man considers bad governance as a distinctive politico-economic order that is based on a set of formal and informal rules, norms, and practices quite different from those of good governance. Some countries are governed badly intentionally because the political leaders of these countries establish and maintain rules, norms, and practices that serve their own self-interests. Gel’man considers bad governance as a primarily agency-driven rather than structure-induced phenomenon. He addresses the issue of causes and mechanisms of bad governance in Russia and beyond from a different scholarly optics, which is based on a more general rationale of state-building, political regime dynamics, and policy-making. He argues that although these days, bad governance is almost universally perceived as an anomaly, at least in developed countries, in fact human history is largely a history of ineffective and corrupt governments, while the rule of law and decent state regulatory quality are relatively recent matters of modern history, when they emerged as side effects of state-building. Indeed, the picture is quite the opposite: bad governance is the norm, while good governance is an exception. The problem is that most rulers, especially if their time horizons are short and the external constraints on their behavior are not especially binding, tend to govern their domains in a predatory way because of the prevalence of short-term over long-term incentives. Contemporary Russia may be considered as a prime example of this phenomenon. Using an analysis of case studies of political and policy changes in Russia after the Soviet collapse, Gel’man discusses the logic of building and maintenance of politico-economic order of bad governance in Russia and paths of its possible transformation in a theoretical and comparative perspective. 2022-05-26T04:03:32Z 2022-05-26T04:03:32Z 2022-05-25T08:16:17Z 2022 book OCN: 1320808075 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/54679 9780472075621 9780472055623 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/81891 eng open access image/png image/png image/png image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/54679/2/9780472902989.epub https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/54679/2/9780472902989.epub https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/54679/2/9780472902989.epub https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/54679/1/9780472902989.pdf University of Michigan Press 10.3998/mpub.11621795 10.3998/mpub.11621795 b7359529-e5f7-4510-a59f-d7dafa1d4d17 9780472075621 9780472055623 Sustainable History Monograph Pilot (SHMP) 312 open access |
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