State-building : a comparative study of Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, and Russia / Verena Fritz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fritz, Verena.

Series:

ACLS Humanities E-Book.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Democracy--Former Soviet republics.

Democracy.

Post-communism--Former Soviet republics.

Post-communism.

Finance, Public--Former Soviet republics.

Finance, Public.

Former Soviet republics--Politics and government.

Former Soviet republics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 384 p. )

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Budapest ; New York : Central European University Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 well as the consolidation of democracy. However, so far little systematic research has been carried out on state capacity per se and on how to explain its development.The book provides new insights in considering the evolution of Ukraine since 1992, offering an in-depth view of institutional development in crucial areas and thus tracing the process of state-building. It draws comparisons with developments in Belarus, Lithuania, and Russia (based on field research). To capture the process of state-building empirically, focuses on the extraction and expenditure systems which are a central pillar of state capacity and also a central link between citizens and the state. The book also sheds light on how Ukraine’s potential ‘second transition’ currently under way will have an impact on its institutional system.

Contents:

Fiscal developments : reforms and revelations

From Kuchma to Yushenko : re-tooling the state

Summary: the state-building process in Ukraine as reflected in the fiscal system

Averting institutional change : the case of Belarus

Political developments : from liberalization to democracy

Economic developments : preserving the command economy

Belarus' international situation

State-society relations in Belarus

Fiscal policies

Belarus : the strong state that does not want to be a state

Lithuania : moving towards a Western model

Political developments : early elite re-configuration and after

Economic developments : the great leap from communism to capitalism

State-society relations in Lithuania

Fiscal and budgetary system

State capacity and its determinants in Lithuania

The "authoritarianizing" route to recovery : the case of Russian tax reform

The stage : political power and oligarchic groups

The economic background to reform

State-society relations

Fiscal crisis and tax reform : surveying explanations

From drag to leap : the gestation and eventual success of tax reform

From prolonged deterioration to unfinished recovery : the Russian path of state-building

Conclusion

The casual model

Individual and casual factors

State-building trajectories

Summary

State-building in the post-Soviet region

The Soviet state and its fiscal system

Institutional deterioration : perestroika and the break-up of the Soviet Union

State-building in the post-Soviet universe

Exploring some quantitative relationships : level of development and political consolidation

From Soviet breakdown to disordered independence

From Soviet republic to independent Ukraine

The great depression : economic crisis after independence

The challenge of nation-building

Struggles for power and institutional weakness

A fiscal system in crisis [confusion in text about 5th subtitle]

The first steps of state-building

A new trajectory taking shape

Economic stabilization and virtualization

The bid for presidential consolidation

State-society relations the rise of political-business groups and weak

Democratic accountability

External factors

Stabilizing the fiscal system

[see error here on title 4.3]

Shaping and distorting the new state

The second transition

From hybrid regime to unconsolidated democracy

Economic recovery and socio-economic policies of the new government

The power of civil society and the continuing importance of opaque groups

External influences on the rise

The state and state-building definitions and debates

The state and state-building

Fiscal perspectives on the state

Regimes and states : the missing link in the transition debate

Potential contributions of post-Soviet cases to general theories of state-building

A framework for assessing states: size, capacity, and quality

The three aspects of the state

States as problems and solutions under various regimes

The size of the state

State capacity : decision-making, implementation, and control

The dynamic of change : state-building as institution building

State-building as institutional change : deterioration and re-building

The costs and risks of institutional change

Types of institutional change

The importance of formal-informal discrepancies

A model of post-Soviet state-building trajectories

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9786611377007

9786155211126

6155211124

9781281377005

1281377007

9781429477888

1429477881

OCLC:

922997909