| Description |
1 online resource (395 p.) |
| Series |
Studies in Contemporary Russia Ser |
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Studies in Contemporary Russia Ser
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| Contents |
Cover -- Endorsement -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Epigraph -- Table of contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Contributors -- Foreword by Tarja Halonen -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Russian modernization: A new paradigm -- Abstract -- 1.1 Relevance of modernization -- 1.2 Relevance of structuration theory -- 1.3 Going beyond previous paradigms -- 1.4 Russian perspectives on modernization -- 1.5 Multiple modernities approach -- 1.6 Debate on Soviet modernity and neo-traditionalism -- 1.7 Modernization as structuration |
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1.8 Three levels of conceptualization -- 1.9 Interdisciplinary approach -- 2 Modernization of the Russian economy: Fossil fuels, diversification, and the shackles of international political economy -- Abstract -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 The structuration approach: choice for fossil fuels -- 2.2.1 The dimension of resources, technology, and infrastructure -- 2.2.2 The dimension of finance, markets, and business models -- 2.2.3 The institutional dimension -- 2.2.4 The ecological dimension -- 2.3 The structuration approach: diversification in manufacturing |
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2.3.1 Global innovation for local markets -- 2.3.2 Energy/resource-intensive commodities -- 2.3.3 Global technologies/innovators -- 2.3.4 Resources, technology, and infrastructure dimension -- 2.3.5 The finance, markets, and business models dimension -- 2.3.6 Institutional dimension -- 2.3.7 Ecological dimension -- 2.3.8 Diversification in manufacturing: preliminary results -- 2.4 Discussion -- Notes -- 3 Authoritarian modernization in post-Soviet Russia: Structures, agencies, and choices -- Abstract -- 3.1 Introduction: Russia and the challenges of authoritarian modernization |
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3.2 Dilemmas, challenges, and constraints of post-Soviet modernization -- 3.3 Strong state in Russia: material and symbolic demand and supply -- 3.3.1 Glorious state history -- 3.3.2 Russia's position in the world: a Great Power -- 3.3.3 Modernization thwarted -- Case study: What is rent-seeking? -- 3.4 Populism from below and above -- 3.5 Globalized administrative change in Russia -- 3.6 Strategic policy plans of the Russian state: the 'hollow paradigm' perspective -- 3.7 Policy implementation: dilemmas of unpopular reforms |
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3.8 Ideas, institutions, and policies: lessons from the Russian experience -- Notes -- 4 Modernization of the Russian social policy: Social crisis, interventions, and withdrawals -- Abstract -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Poverty and social exclusion in Russia -- 4.3 Russian health in transition -- 4.4 Migrants as an inequality issue -- 4.5 Russian family as the government's top priority -- 4.5.1 Elite priority: the birth rate -- 4.5.2 Family-friendly work environment for working mothers -- 4.5.3 Every child's right to a family -- 4.6 Education reforms and bureaucratic interests -- 4.6.1 Challenges |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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4.6.2 Structure and agency |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Humphreys, Brendan G
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| ISBN |
9781000226843 |
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1000226840 |
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