Building the Russian state  institutional crisis and the quest for democratic governance / 
edited by Valerie Sperling. 
 - Boulder, Colo. :  Westview Press,  (c)2000. 
 - 1 online resource (xiii, 245 pages) 
 - The John M. Olin critical issues series .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>Introduction : the domestic and international obstacles to State-building in Russia /  The "use and abuse" of Russia's energy resources : implications for state-society relations /  Do the people rule? the use of referenda in Russia /  The divided Russian elite : how Russia's transition produced a counter-elite /  Is the Russian State coping with organized crime and corruption? /  State dysfunctionality, institutional decay, and the Russian military /  Is the center too weak or too strong in the Russian Federation? /  Liberal transformation : labor and the Russian State /  The executive deception : superpresidentialism and the degradation of Russian politics /  Russian courts : enforcing the rule of law? Pamela Jordan. --  Stability from without? International donors and "good governance" strategies in Russia /  Valerie Sperling. --  Pauline Jones Luong. --  Mark Clarence Walker. --  Virginia Coulloudon. --  Louise Shelley. --  Eva Busza. --  Steven L. Solnick. --  Stephen Crowley. --  M. Steven Fish. --  Corbin B. Lyday. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780786743315 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Elite (Social sciences)--Russia (Federation)
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>JN6695  / .B855 2000