State building in Putin's Russia policing and coercion after communism
This book argues that Putin's strategy for rebuilding the state was fundamentally flawed. Taylor demonstrates that a disregard for the way state officials behave toward citizens - state quality - had a negative impact on what the state could do - state capacity. Focusing on those organizations...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge
Cambridge University Press
2011
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| Collection: | Cambridge Books Online - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Bringing the gun back in : coercion and the state
- The power ministries and the siloviki
- Coercion and capacity : political order and the central state
- Coercion and capacity : centralization and federalism
- Coercion and quality : power ministry practices and personnel
- Coercion and quality : the state and society
- Coercion in the North Caucasus
- State capacity and quality reconsidered
- Appendix A: Publication abbreviations
- Appendix B: Interview index