Why do new, democratizing states often find it so difficult to
actually govern? Why do they so often fail to provide their
beleaguered populations with better access to public goods and
services? Using original and unusual data, this book uses
post-communist Russia as a case in examining what the author calls
this broader 'weak state syndrome' in many developing countries.
Through interviews with over 800 Russian bureaucrats in 72 of
Russia's 89 provinces, and a highly original database on patterns
of regional government non-compliance to federal law and policy,
the book demonstrates that resistance to Russian central authority
not so much ethnically based (as others have argued) as much as
generated by the will of powerful and wealthy regional political
and economic actors seeking to protect assets they had acquired
through Russia's troubled transition out of communism.
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