Post-Soviet power: state-led development and Russia's marketization
Post-Soviet Power tells the story of the Russian electricity system and examines the politics of its transformation from a ministry to a market. Susanne A. Wengle shifts our focus away from what has been at the center of post-Soviet political economy - corruption and the lack of structural reforms - to draw attention to political struggles to establish a state with the ability to govern the economy. She highlights the importance of hands-on economic planning by authorities - post-Soviet develop…
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- Full title :Post-Soviet power : state-led development and Russia's marketization / Susanne A. Wengle, University of Chicago.
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Post-Soviet Power tells the story of the Russian electricity system and examines the politics of its transformation from a ministry to a market. Susanne A. Wengle shifts our focus away from what has been at the center of post-Soviet political economy - corruption and the lack of structural reforms - to draw attention to political struggles to establish a state with the ability to govern the economy. She highlights the importance of hands-on economic planning by authorities - post-Soviet developmentalism - and details the market mechanisms that have been created. This book argues that these observations urge us to think of economies and political authority as mutually constitutive, in Russia and beyond. Whereas political science often thinks of market arrangements resulting from political institutions, Russia's marketization demonstrates that political status is also produced by the market arrangements that actors create. Taking this reflexivity seriously suggests a view of economies and markets as constructed and contingent entities.
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- Publication Date:2015.
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- Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
- Place of Publication:Cambridge
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2015.
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The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (xiii, 295 pages) : : PDF file(s).
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781139680479, 1139680471, 9781107072480, 1107072484, 9781107420922, 110742092X
- oclc:on1117878677
- LC Classification:HC340.12
- Dewey Decimal:337.47
Table of Contents
Introduction : Russia's Political Marketization -- Power Politics -- Regionally Patterned Pacts and the Political Life of Things -- Privatization : Competing Claims and New Owners -- Liberalization : the Price of Power -- Expertise : Engineers Versus Managers -- Conclusion : Development as Contingent Transformations.
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