Thieves, opportunists, and autocrats : building regulatory states in Russia and Kazakhstan / Dinissa Duvanova.
Series: Oxford scholarship online: Publisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2023Description: 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)Content type: text | still image Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780197697801Subject(s): Trade regulation -- Russia (Federation) | Post-communism -- Economic aspects -- Russia (Federation) | Political corruption -- Russia (Federation) | Trade regulation -- Kazakhstan | Post-communism -- Economic aspects -- Kazakhstan | Political corruption -- Kazakhstan | Industry | Industry & industrial studiesAdditional Physical Form: Print version : 9780197697764DDC classification: 338.947 LOC classification: HD3612.R83 | D883 2023Online resources: Oxford Academic Summary: This text reconciles the conflicting evidence of simultaneous improvements in the governance of post-Soviet states and the unmistakable signs of growing predation and systemic corrpution. To better understand how corruption and statism can coincide with improved governance, Thieves, Opportunists, and Autocrats focuses on the varying ways in which legislatures and bureaucrats have drafted regulatory policy-the state's key economic policy tool in capitalist socieites-and implemented it in Russia and Kazakhstan.Item type | Current library | Class number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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ebook | House of Lords Library - Palace Online access | 1 | Available |
Also issued in print: 2023.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This text reconciles the conflicting evidence of simultaneous improvements in the governance of post-Soviet states and the unmistakable signs of growing predation and systemic corrpution. To better understand how corruption and statism can coincide with improved governance, Thieves, Opportunists, and Autocrats focuses on the varying ways in which legislatures and bureaucrats have drafted regulatory policy-the state's key economic policy tool in capitalist socieites-and implemented it in Russia and Kazakhstan.
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