Format:
1 online resource (189 pages)
ISBN:
9781317136156
,
1317136152
,
9781315582061
,
1315582066
Series Statement:
Studies in Contemporary Russia
Content:
How do Russian leaders balance the need to decentralize governance in a socially and politically complex country with the need to guarantee political control of the state? Since the early 2000s Russian federal authorities have arranged a system of political control on regional elites and their leaders, providing a "police control" of special bodies subordinated by the federal center on policy implementation in the regions. Different mechanisms of fiscal federalism and investment policy have been used to ensure regional elites’ loyalty and a politically centralized but administratively decentralized system has been created. Asking clear, direct, and theoretically informed questions about the relationship between federalism, decentralization and authoritarianism, this book explores the political survival of authoritarian leaders, the determinants of policy formulation, and theories of federalism and decentralization, to reach a new understanding of territorial governance in contemporary Russia. As such, it is an important work for students and researchers in Russian studies and regional and federal studies.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1472461509
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781472461506
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781472461506
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9781315582061
