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Protest and the politics of blame : the Russian response to unpaid wages / Debra Javeline.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Javeline, Debra, 1967-
Contributor:
Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan), publisher.
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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