Publication

1997 - Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J, New Jersey

Language

English

Word Count

60,000 words, Guess

Page Count

240 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • LibraryThing2911277
  • Goodreads4188843

Classifications

  • DDC351.47
  • LCCJS6117.3.A3 S76 1997

Description

In Local Heroes, Kathryn Stoner-Weiss analyzes a crucial aspect of one of the great dramas of modern times - the reconstitution of the Russian polity and economy after more than seventy years of communist rule. This is the first book to look comprehensively and systematically at Russia's democratic transition at the local level. Its goal is to explain why some of the new political institutions in the Russian provinces weathered the monumental changes of the early 1990s better than others. Using newly available economic, political, and sociological data to test various theories of democratization and institutional performance, Stoner-Weiss finds that traditional theories are unable to explain variations in regional government performance in Russia.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Local heroes: the political economy of Russian regional governancePrinceton University Press1997-01-01

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