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Opportunities and Constraints of Authoritarian Modernisation: Russian Policy Reforms in the 2000s

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  • Vladimir Gel’man
  • Andrey Starodubtsev

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The essay explores why some socio-economic reforms are successful and others are not and why and how the political regime and its institutions affect policy outcomes and the implementation of a ‘narrow’ programme of authoritarian modernisation, characterised by the achievement of socio-economic growth without full-scale democratisation. It reconsiders the Russian experience of policy reforms in the 2000s as a case of authoritarian modernisation in the context of post-Communist policy changes where less than half of the proposals have been implemented, and only a few have been successful. The essay attempts to explain the factors and mechanisms of the successes and failures of policy reforms, focusing on the one hand, on the impact of electoral authoritarianism and the poor quality of the state on opportunities and constraints for policy changes, and, on the other hand, on the institutional factors which affect the vertical and horizontal fragmentation of the Russian government and the efficiency or inefficiency of its policies.

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  • Vladimir Gel’man & Andrey Starodubtsev, 2016. "Opportunities and Constraints of Authoritarian Modernisation: Russian Policy Reforms in the 2000s," Europe-Asia Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 68(1), pages 97-117, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:ceasxx:v:68:y:2016:i:1:p:97-117
    DOI: 10.1080/09668136.2015.1113232
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    1. Lyubimov, Ivan, 2016. "Are educational reforms necessarily growthenhancing? Weak institutions as the cause of policy failure," BOFIT Policy Briefs 7/2016, Bank of Finland Institute for Emerging Economies (BOFIT).
    2. Carsten Herrmann-Pillath, 2019. "Power, ideas and culture in the ‘longue durée’ of institutional evolution: theory and application on the revolutions of property rights in Russia," Journal of Evolutionary Economics, Springer, vol. 29(5), pages 1483-1506, November.
    3. Elena Minina, 2019. "‘Formalizing The Unformalizable’: Discursive Resistance To Unified State Examination By The Teacher Community," HSE Working papers WP BRP 51/EDU/2019, National Research University Higher School of Economics.
    4. Simola, Heli, 2021. "Long-term challenges to Russian economic policy," BOFIT Policy Briefs 11/2021, Bank of Finland Institute for Emerging Economies (BOFIT).

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