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The Politics of Bad Governance in Contemporary Russia (Hardcover)
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The Politics of Bad Governance in Contemporary Russia (Hardcover)
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In this book, Vladimir Gel'man considers bad governance as a
distinctive politico-economic order that is based on a set of
formal and informal rules, norms, and practices quite different
from those of good governance. Some countries are governed badly
intentionally because the political leaders of these countries
establish and maintain rules, norms, and practices that serve their
own self-interests. Gel'man considers bad governance as a primarily
agency-driven rather than structure-induced phenomenon. He
addresses the issue of causes and mechanisms of bad governance in
Russia and beyond from a different scholarly optics, which is based
on a more general rationale of state-building, political regime
dynamics, and policy-making. He argues that although these days,
bad governance is almost universally perceived as an anomaly, at
least in developed countries, in fact human history is largely a
history of ineffective and corrupt governments, while the rule of
law and decent state regulatory quality are relatively recent
matters of modern history, when they emerged as side effects of
state-building. Indeed, the picture is quite the opposite: bad
governance is the norm, while good governance is an exception. The
problem is that most rulers, especially if their time horizons are
short and the external constraints on their behavior are not
especially binding, tend to govern their domains in a predatory way
because of the prevalence of short-term over long-term incentives.
Contemporary Russia may be considered as a prime example of this
phenomenon. Using an analysis of case studies of political and
policy changes in Russia after the Soviet collapse, Gel'man
discusses the logic of building and maintaining the
politico-economic order of bad governance in Russia and paths of
its possible transformation in a theoretical and comparative
perspective.
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