State-building : a comparative study of Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, and Russia /
Fritz, Verena.
Budapest ; New York : Central European University Press,
2007.
Includes bibliographical references.
The state and state-building definitions and debates -- The state and state-building -- Fiscal perspectives on the state -- Regimes and states : the missing link in the transition debate -- Potential contributions of post-Soviet cases to general theories of state-building -- A framework for assessing states: size, capacity, and quality -- The three aspects of the state -- States as problems and solutions under various regimes -- The size of the state -- State capacity : decision-making, implementation, and control -- The dynamic of change : state-building as institution building -- State-building as institutional change : deterioration and re-building -- The costs and risks of institutional change -- Types of institutional change -- The importance of formal-informal discrepancies -- A model of post-Soviet state-building trajectories -- The casual model -- Individual and casual factors -- State-building trajectories -- Summary -- State-building in the post-Soviet region -- The Soviet state and its fiscal system -- Institutional deterioration : perestroika and the break-up of the Soviet Union -- State-building in the post-Soviet universe -- Exploring some quantitative relationships : level of development  and political consolidation -- Summary -- From Soviet breakdown to disordered independence -- From Soviet republic to independent Ukraine -- The great depression : economic crisis after independence -- The challenge of nation-building -- Struggles for power and institutional weakness -- A fiscal system in crisis [confusion in text about 5th subtitle] -- The first steps of state-building -- A new trajectory taking shape -- Economic stabilization and virtualization -- The bid for presidential consolidation -- State-society relations  the rise of political-business groups and weak -- Democratic accountability -- External factors -- Stabilizing the fiscal system -- [see error here on title 4.3] -- Shaping and distorting the new state -- The second transition -- From hybrid regime to unconsolidated democracy -- Economic recovery and socio-economic policies of the new government -- The power of civil society and the continuing importance of opaque groups -- External influences on the rise -- Fiscal developments : reforms and revelations -- From Kuchma to Yushenko : re-tooling the state -- Summary: the state-building process in Ukraine as reflected in the fiscal system -- Averting institutional change : the case of Belarus -- Political developments : from liberalization to democracy -- Economic developments : preserving the command economy -- Belarus' international situation -- State-society relations in Belarus -- Fiscal policies -- Belarus : the strong state that does not want to be a state -- Lithuania : moving towards a Western model -- Political developments : early elite re-configuration and after -- Economic developments : the great leap from communism to capitalism -- State-society relations in Lithuania -- Fiscal and budgetary system -- State capacity and its determinants in Lithuania -- The "authoritarianizing" route to recovery : the case of Russian tax reform -- The stage : political power and oligarchic groups -- The economic background to reform -- State-society relations -- Fiscal crisis and tax reform : surveying explanations -- From drag to leap : the gestation and eventual success of tax reform -- From prolonged deterioration to unfinished recovery : the Russian path of state-building -- Conclusion.
Democracy
Post-communism
Finance, Public