State-building: A Comparative Study of Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, and RussiaCentral European University Press, 2007 M01 1 - 384 pages An analysis of post-Soviet state-building and of post-communist transition in Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus and Russia. |
Contents
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CHAPTER 8 THE SECOND TRANSITION IN UKRAINE | 173 |
81 From hybrid regime to unconsolidated democracy | 174 |
and socioeconomic policies of the new government | 183 |
83 The power of civil society and the continuing importance of opaque groups | 185 |
84 External influences on the rise | 186 |
reforms and revelations | 188 |
Retooling the state | 198 |
the statebuilding process in Ukraine as reflected in the fiscal sphere | 200 |
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34 The importance of formalinformal discrepancies | 49 |
CHAPTER 4 A MODEL OF POSTSOVIET STATEBUILDING TRAJECTORIES | 53 |
42 Individual causal factors | 56 |
43 Four statebuilding trajectories | 67 |
44 Summary | 71 |
CHAPTER 5 STATEBUILDING IN THE POSTSOVIET REGION | 77 |
perestroika and the breakup of the Soviet Union | 81 |
53 Statebuilding in the postSoviet universe | 83 |
level of development and political consolidation | 91 |
55 Summary | 102 |
CHAPTER 6 UKRAINEFROM SOVIET BREAKDOWN TO DISORDERED INDEPENDENCE | 107 |
61 From Soviet republic to independent Ukraine | 109 |
economic crisis after independence | 110 |
63 The challenge of nationbuilding | 112 |
64 Struggles for power and institutional weakness | 113 |
65 A fiscal system in crisis | 125 |
66 The first steps of statebuilding | 130 |
CHAPTER 7 A NEW TRAJECTORY TAKING SHAPE | 135 |
71 Economic stabilization and visualization | 136 |
72 The bid for presidential consolidation | 137 |
73 Statesociety relationsthe rise of politicalbusiness groups and weak democratic accountability | 139 |
74 External factors | 146 |
75 Stabilizing the fiscal system | 147 |
76 Shaping and distorting the new state | 165 |
THE CASE OF BELARUS | 209 |
preserving the command economy | 213 |
93 Belarus international situation | 217 |
94 Statesociety relations in Belarus | 218 |
95 Fiscal policies | 222 |
the strong state that does not want to be a state | 230 |
MOVING TOWARDS WESTERN MODELS | 241 |
the great leap from communism to capitalism | 248 |
103 Statesociety relations in Lithuania | 251 |
104 Fiscal and budgetary system | 257 |
105 State capacity and its determinants in Lithuania | 272 |
THE CASE OF RUSSIAN TAX REFORM | 283 |
112 The economic background to reform | 287 |
113 Statesociety relations | 290 |
surveying explanations | 292 |
the gestation and eventual success of tax reform | 293 |
the Russian path of statebuilding | 305 |
CHAPTER 12 CONCLUSION | 313 |
121 States as problems and solutions | 314 |
122 Institutional deterioration and the importance of the political regime | 319 |
legacies international integration and the level of development | 326 |
conceptualizing institutional change regime change and statebuilding | 330 |
APPENDIX | 339 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 353 |
INDEX | 373 |
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