State Building in Putin’s Russia
Policing and Coercion after Communism
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- Author: Brian D. Taylor, Syracuse University, New York
- Date Published: March 2011
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This book argues that Putin's strategy for rebuilding the state was fundamentally flawed. Taylor demonstrates that a disregard for the way state officials behave toward citizens - state quality - had a negative impact on what the state could do - state capacity. Focusing on those organizations that control state coercion, what Russians call the 'power ministries', Taylor shows that many of the weaknesses of the Russian state that existed under Boris Yeltsin persisted under Putin. Drawing on extensive field research and interviews, as well as a wide range of comparative data, the book reveals the practices and norms that guide the behavior of Russian power ministry officials (the so-called siloviki), especially law enforcement personnel. By examining siloviki behavior from the Kremlin down to the street level, State Building in Putin's Russia uncovers the who, where and how of Russian state building after communism.
Read more- Only detailed study of Vladimir Putin's efforts to strengthen the Russian state that covers his entire presidency
- First major single-author study on Russian law enforcement after the Soviet collapse
- Makes an important contribution to the comparative politics literature on the state by developing the distinction between state capacity and state quality
- Draws on more than 100 interviews in Russia
Awards
- A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2011
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- Date Published: March 2011
- format: Adobe eBook Reader
- isbn: 9781139005692
- contains: 34 b/w illus. 2 maps 15 tables
- availability: This ISBN is for an eBook version which is distributed on our behalf by a third party.
Table of Contents
1. Bringing the gun back in: coercion and the state
2. The power ministries and the siloviki
3. Coercion and capacity: political order and the central state
4. Coercion and capacity: centralization and federalism
5. Coercion and quality: power ministry practices and personnel
6. Coercion and quality: the state and society
7. Coercion in the North Caucasus
8. State capacity and quality reconsidered.
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