State-building : : A Comparative Study of Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, and Russia /

State-building : : A Comparative Study of Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, and Russia / / Verena Fritz.

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Looks at the process of state-building in Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, and Russia from a political economy and institutional perspective. Weak and distorted state capacity has come to be widely recognized as a key obstacle to successful transformation—including economic modernization and growth as w...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Central European University Press eBook-Package 2013-1998
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Fritz, Verena,
Place / Publishing House:Budapest ;, New York : : Central European University Press, , [2007]
©2007
Year of Publication:2007
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (394 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • Abbrevations
  • List of Tables and graphs
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. State- and institution-building – a framework for analysis
  • Chapter 2. A framework for assessing states: size, capacity, and quality
  • Chapter 3. The dynamic of change: state-building as institution-building
  • Chapter 4. A model of post-Soviet state-building trajectories
  • Chapter 5. State-building in the post-Soviet region
  • Chapter 6. Ukraine—from Soviet breakdown to disordered independence
  • Chapter 7. A new trajectory taking shape
  • Chapter 8. The second transition in Ukraine
  • Chapter 9. Averting institutional change: the case of Belarus
  • Chapter 10. Lithuania: moving towards Western models
  • Chapter 11. The ‘authoritarianizing’ route to recovery: the case of Russian tax reform
  • Chapter 12. Conclusion
  • Appendix
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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