This article examines the impact of natural resource wealth on Russian political life. Viewed fro... more This article examines the impact of natural resource wealth on Russian political life. Viewed from a political perspective, what is striking is not how well Russia conforms to the stereotype of a resource-based political economy but how well it has (so far) resisted many of the institutional and political pathologies associated with the “resource curse”. There is little reason to think that Russia’s policy would be much healthier if it had less resource wealth. Nevertheless, it seems that Russia’s resource wealth does pose dangers to its political development. The crucial issue is not the nature of the resources themselves but the location of those resources in an institutional environment that is ill-equipped to cope with the pressures and problems that such wealth can create.
Page 1. Page 2. Page 3. Page 4. THE STRUGGLE OVER FACTORIES, FARMS, AND POWER ANDREW BARNES Dunng... more Page 1. Page 2. Page 3. Page 4. THE STRUGGLE OVER FACTORIES, FARMS, AND POWER ANDREW BARNES Dunng and after the breakdown of the Soviet Union, a wide range of competitors fought to build new political and ...
... socialist superpower, Khrushchev peppered his speeches with reminiscences, stories from hisyo... more ... socialist superpower, Khrushchev peppered his speeches with reminiscences, stories from hisyouth and peasant ... political views were born of life experience rather than of any real grasp of ... 10 Khrushchev: A Political Life many different movements and groups, and it was difficult ...
PRODU CT MARKE T LABOU MARKE PENSIO NS LAB OUR M ARKET PRODU C LABOU R MARKE T PENSIO NS REFOR M ... more PRODU CT MARKE T LABOU MARKE PENSIO NS LAB OUR M ARKET PRODU C LABOU R MARKE T PENSIO NS REFOR M PRODU CT MARKE T LABOU R MARK ET PRO DUCT M ARKET REFOR M PENS IONS LA BOUR M AR PENSIO NS REFOR M PRODU CT MARKE T LABOU MARKE PENSIO NS REFOR M PRODU CTT PRODU CT MAR KET RE FORM P ENSION S LABO UR MAR KET PR ODUCT MARKE T REFO RM PEN SIONS REFOR M PRODU CT MARKE T LABOU MARKE PENSIO NS REFOR M PRODU CT MARKE T LABOU MARKE PENSIO NS REFOR M PRODU C REFOR M PENS IONS LA BOUR M ARKET PRODU CT MAR KET RE FORM P ENSION S LABO UR MAR KET PR ODUCT MARKE T PRODU CT MARKE T LABOU MARKE PENSIO NS REFOR M PRODU CT MARKE T LABOU MARKE PENSIO NS REFOR M PRODU CT MARKE T LABOU MARKE PENSIO NS REFO PENSIO NS LAB OUR M ARKET PRODU CT MAR KET RE FORM P ENSION S LABO UR MAR KET PR ODUCT MARKE T REFO RM PEN SI LABOU R MARKE T PENSIO NS REFOR M PRODU CT MARKE T LABOU MARKE PENSIO NS REFOR M PRODU CT MARKE T LABOU MARKE PENSIO NS REFOR M PRODU CT MAR LABOU R MARK ET PRO DUCT M ARKET REFOR M PENS IONS LA B...
The Ukraine to which Khrushchev returned lay in ruins. Industry was devastated, and agriculture f... more The Ukraine to which Khrushchev returned lay in ruins. Industry was devastated, and agriculture faced shortages of seed, labour and machinery. There was insufficient housing for the population that remained, and millions of people were flooding into the republic — evacuees from the Urals, demobilised soldiers, former POWs and gastarbeiten who had been taken to Germany as labourers during the occupation. In 1945 Ukrainian industry reached only a quarter of its pre-war output, and grain procurement was worse than in the previous year, despite the fact that not all of the republic had been liberated in time for the 1944 harvest.
ticular the sharp decline in the number of "wasted" votes for party lists) run counter ... more ticular the sharp decline in the number of "wasted" votes for party lists) run counter to trends Moser identifies. He discusses the 1999 results in a brief epilogue, but Unexpected Outcomes would have made a greater contribution to the field had it come out a year later with in-depth analysis of a third election under the rules adopted in 1993. In addition, although Moser provides a thorough review of the literature on electoral systems and cites many English-language works on post-Soviet Russian politics, he quotes only one article published in a Russian scholarly journal. That said, Unexpected Outcomes contains many convincing arguments about electoral system effects in Russia. It is well wordi reading for those studying elections and political party development in the postcommunist world. Scholars with an interest in electoral engineering, institutional design, and the impact of electoral systems generally will also find Moser's book extremely useful.
This article examines the impact of natural resource wealth on Russian political life. Viewed fro... more This article examines the impact of natural resource wealth on Russian political life. Viewed from a political perspective, what is striking is not how well Russia conforms to the stereotype of a resource-based political economy but how well it has (so far) resisted many of the institutional and political pathologies associated with the “resource curse”. There is little reason to think that Russia’s policy would be much healthier if it had less resource wealth. Nevertheless, it seems that Russia’s resource wealth does pose dangers to its political development. The crucial issue is not the nature of the resources themselves but the location of those resources in an institutional environment that is ill-equipped to cope with the pressures and problems that such wealth can create.
Page 1. Page 2. Page 3. Page 4. THE STRUGGLE OVER FACTORIES, FARMS, AND POWER ANDREW BARNES Dunng... more Page 1. Page 2. Page 3. Page 4. THE STRUGGLE OVER FACTORIES, FARMS, AND POWER ANDREW BARNES Dunng and after the breakdown of the Soviet Union, a wide range of competitors fought to build new political and ...
... socialist superpower, Khrushchev peppered his speeches with reminiscences, stories from hisyo... more ... socialist superpower, Khrushchev peppered his speeches with reminiscences, stories from hisyouth and peasant ... political views were born of life experience rather than of any real grasp of ... 10 Khrushchev: A Political Life many different movements and groups, and it was difficult ...
PRODU CT MARKE T LABOU MARKE PENSIO NS LAB OUR M ARKET PRODU C LABOU R MARKE T PENSIO NS REFOR M ... more PRODU CT MARKE T LABOU MARKE PENSIO NS LAB OUR M ARKET PRODU C LABOU R MARKE T PENSIO NS REFOR M PRODU CT MARKE T LABOU R MARK ET PRO DUCT M ARKET REFOR M PENS IONS LA BOUR M AR PENSIO NS REFOR M PRODU CT MARKE T LABOU MARKE PENSIO NS REFOR M PRODU CTT PRODU CT MAR KET RE FORM P ENSION S LABO UR MAR KET PR ODUCT MARKE T REFO RM PEN SIONS REFOR M PRODU CT MARKE T LABOU MARKE PENSIO NS REFOR M PRODU CT MARKE T LABOU MARKE PENSIO NS REFOR M PRODU C REFOR M PENS IONS LA BOUR M ARKET PRODU CT MAR KET RE FORM P ENSION S LABO UR MAR KET PR ODUCT MARKE T PRODU CT MARKE T LABOU MARKE PENSIO NS REFOR M PRODU CT MARKE T LABOU MARKE PENSIO NS REFOR M PRODU CT MARKE T LABOU MARKE PENSIO NS REFO PENSIO NS LAB OUR M ARKET PRODU CT MAR KET RE FORM P ENSION S LABO UR MAR KET PR ODUCT MARKE T REFO RM PEN SI LABOU R MARKE T PENSIO NS REFOR M PRODU CT MARKE T LABOU MARKE PENSIO NS REFOR M PRODU CT MARKE T LABOU MARKE PENSIO NS REFOR M PRODU CT MAR LABOU R MARK ET PRO DUCT M ARKET REFOR M PENS IONS LA B...
The Ukraine to which Khrushchev returned lay in ruins. Industry was devastated, and agriculture f... more The Ukraine to which Khrushchev returned lay in ruins. Industry was devastated, and agriculture faced shortages of seed, labour and machinery. There was insufficient housing for the population that remained, and millions of people were flooding into the republic — evacuees from the Urals, demobilised soldiers, former POWs and gastarbeiten who had been taken to Germany as labourers during the occupation. In 1945 Ukrainian industry reached only a quarter of its pre-war output, and grain procurement was worse than in the previous year, despite the fact that not all of the republic had been liberated in time for the 1944 harvest.
ticular the sharp decline in the number of "wasted" votes for party lists) run counter ... more ticular the sharp decline in the number of "wasted" votes for party lists) run counter to trends Moser identifies. He discusses the 1999 results in a brief epilogue, but Unexpected Outcomes would have made a greater contribution to the field had it come out a year later with in-depth analysis of a third election under the rules adopted in 1993. In addition, although Moser provides a thorough review of the literature on electoral systems and cites many English-language works on post-Soviet Russian politics, he quotes only one article published in a Russian scholarly journal. That said, Unexpected Outcomes contains many convincing arguments about electoral system effects in Russia. It is well wordi reading for those studying elections and political party development in the postcommunist world. Scholars with an interest in electoral engineering, institutional design, and the impact of electoral systems generally will also find Moser's book extremely useful.
Uploads
Papers by William Tompson