State-building: A Comparative Study of Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, and Russia

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Central 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

CHAPTER 8 THE SECOND TRANSITION IN UKRAINE
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81 From hybrid regime to unconsolidated democracy
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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

STATEBUILDING AS INSTITUTIONBUILDING
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32 The costs and risks of institutional change
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33 Types of institutional change
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34 The importance of formalinformal discrepancies
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CHAPTER 4 A MODEL OF POSTSOVIET STATEBUILDING TRAJECTORIES
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42 Individual causal factors
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43 Four statebuilding trajectories
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44 Summary
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CHAPTER 5 STATEBUILDING IN THE POSTSOVIET REGION
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perestroika and the breakup of the Soviet Union
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53 Statebuilding in the postSoviet universe
83
level of development and political consolidation
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55 Summary
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CHAPTER 6 UKRAINEFROM SOVIET BREAKDOWN TO DISORDERED INDEPENDENCE
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61 From Soviet republic to independent Ukraine
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economic crisis after independence
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63 The challenge of nationbuilding
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64 Struggles for power and institutional weakness
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65 A fiscal system in crisis
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66 The first steps of statebuilding
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CHAPTER 7 A NEW TRAJECTORY TAKING SHAPE
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71 Economic stabilization and visualization
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72 The bid for presidential consolidation
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73 Statesociety relationsthe rise of politicalbusiness groups and weak democratic accountability
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74 External factors
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75 Stabilizing the fiscal system
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76 Shaping and distorting the new state
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THE CASE OF BELARUS
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preserving the command economy
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93 Belarus international situation
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94 Statesociety relations in Belarus
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95 Fiscal policies
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the strong state that does not want to be a state
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MOVING TOWARDS WESTERN MODELS
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the great leap from communism to capitalism
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103 Statesociety relations in Lithuania
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104 Fiscal and budgetary system
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105 State capacity and its determinants in Lithuania
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THE CASE OF RUSSIAN TAX REFORM
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112 The economic background to reform
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113 Statesociety relations
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surveying explanations
292
the gestation and eventual success of tax reform
293
the Russian path of statebuilding
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CHAPTER 12 CONCLUSION
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121 States as problems and solutions
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122 Institutional deterioration and the importance of the political regime
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legacies international integration and the level of development
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conceptualizing institutional change regime change and statebuilding
330
APPENDIX
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
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INDEX
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Verena Fritz is a research fellow with the Overseas Development Institute in London. She works and publishes on state-building, governance (including public financial management), and corruption from a comparative perspective – with a special interest in countries of the former Soviet Union.

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