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oapen-20.500.12657-759722024-03-28T09:42:05Z Federalism and Regional Policy in Contemporary Russia Starodubtsev, Andrey Politics and government How do Russian leaders balance the need to decentralize governance in a socially and politically complex country with the need to guarantee political control of the state? Since the early 2000s Russian federal authorities have arranged a system of political control on regional elites and their leaders, providing a "police control" of special bodies subordinated by the federal center on policy implementation in the regions. Different mechanisms of fiscal federalism and investment policy have been used to ensure regional elites’ loyalty and a politically centralized but administratively decentralized system has been created. Asking clear, direct, and theoretically informed questions about the relationship between federalism, decentralization and authoritarianism, this book explores the political survival of authoritarian leaders, the determinants of policy formulation, and theories of federalism and decentralization, to reach a new understanding of territorial governance in contemporary Russia. As such, it is an important work for students and researchers in Russian studies and regional and federal studies. 2023-08-31T08:43:19Z 2023-08-31T08:43:19Z 2018 book ONIX_20230831_9781317136156_35 9781317136156 9781032095950 9781472461506 9781315582061 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/75972 eng Studies in Contemporary Russia application/pdf n/a 9781317136156.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9781315582061 10.4324/9781315582061 7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bb 86d34f0d-2526-499f-b7e8-40af268cf623 9781317136156 9781032095950 9781472461506 9781315582061 Routledge 188 [...] open access
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How do Russian leaders balance the need to decentralize governance in a socially and politically complex country with the need to guarantee political control of the state? Since the early 2000s Russian federal authorities have arranged a system of political control on regional elites and their leaders, providing a "police control" of special bodies subordinated by the federal center on policy implementation in the regions. Different mechanisms of fiscal federalism and investment policy have been used to ensure regional elites’ loyalty and a politically centralized but administratively decentralized system has been created. Asking clear, direct, and theoretically informed questions about the relationship between federalism, decentralization and authoritarianism, this book explores the political survival of authoritarian leaders, the determinants of policy formulation, and theories of federalism and decentralization, to reach a new understanding of territorial governance in contemporary Russia. As such, it is an important work for students and researchers in Russian studies and regional and federal studies.
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