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Protest and the politics of blame : the Russian response to unpaid wages / Debra Javeline.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Javeline, Debra, 1967-
- Series:
- Interests, identities, and institutions in comparative politics.
- Interests, identities, and institutions in comparative politics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Wages--Russia (Federation).
- Wages.
- Blame--Political aspects--Russia (Federation).
- Blame.
- Social psychology--Russia (Federation).
- Social psychology.
- Social surveys--Russia (Federation).
- Social surveys.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 291 p. : ill.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Explains the absence of wide-scale protest over unpaid wages in Russia.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- The crisis
- The reaction
- The puzzle
- The structure of this book
- Why blame attribution matters for protest
- Explanations for protest and passivity in Russia
- Issue difficulty and blame attribution
- Blame attribution and collective action theory
- The importance of blame attribution for human behavior
- What is a "normal" amount of protest?
- How much protest is there in Russia?
- What we can learn from individual-level data
- Conclusion
- Wage arrears in Russia: a difficult issue
- The role of the central authorities
- The role of regional and local authorities
- The role of enterprises and enterprise managers
- The role of the general economic situation and the transition period
- The role of international organizations and foreign governments
- The role of the Russian people
- Other sources of wage arrears
- Specifying blameworthy individuals and institutions
- Blame-avoiding strategies
- Blame-avoiding institutions and circumstances
- Whom Russians blame for wage arrears
- Multicausality and information overload
- Measuring the attribution of blame
- Blame cast widely and inconsistently
- No clear saviors or solutions
- What explains the attribution of blame?
- The politics of blame
- Protesting wage arrears
- Blame attribution and individual responses to wage arrears
- Blame attribution and group responses to wage arrears
- Feedback: protest's influence on blame attribution
- Alternative explanations for the Russian response to wage arrears
- Economic arguments
- Psychological arguments
- Cultural arguments
- Organizational arguments
- Opportunities and constraints
- Other explanations for protest and passivity
- The robust relationship between blame and protest
- Implications
- The study of blame attribution and collective action theory
- Blame and protest in comparative perspective
- The unlikeliness of social unrest in Russia
- Alcoholism, depression, and learned helplessness
- Scapegoating and demagoguery
- Appendix A. how the survey was conducted
- Appendix B. survey questions.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-283) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-44532-4
- 9786612445323
- 0-472-02477-9
- OCLC:
- 654755350
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