State building in Putin's Russia policing and coercion after communism /

"Building a strong Russian state was the central goal of Vladimir Putin's presidency. 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 impac...

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Autor principal: Taylor, Brian D., 1964-
Autor Corporativo: ebrary, Inc
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Lenguaje:inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
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Acceso en línea:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.