Authoritarian politics of ideas, interests and policy change : Finance and development in Putin's Russia
Journal: UvA-DARE (University of Amsterdam)
Year: 2019

The thesis employs theories of authoritarian legitimation as well as of ideational and policy change to explain a gradual change in economic ideas and policy in Putin‘s Russia (2000-2018). Using cases of the Stabilization Fund and of industrial policy, it shows how re-industrialization of the Russian economy that was unthinkable in the 1990s and early 2000s becomes doable in the second half of the 2000s and is realized on a grand scale in Putin‘s third term, 2012-2018. The thesis explains this i