Local heroes
Subtitle: the political economy of Russian regional governance
By: Kathryn Stoner-Weiss.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
Subjects: Local government -- Russia (Federation); Representative government and representation -- Russia (Federation); Regional planning -- Russia (Federation); Russia (Federation) -- Economic policy -- 1991-
Description: In Local Heroes, Kathryn Stoner-Weiss analyzes a crucial aspect of one of the great dramas of modern times - the reconstitution of the Russian polity and economy after more than seventy years of communist rule. This is the first book to look comprehensively and systematically at Russia's democratic transition at the local level. Its goal is to explain why some of the new political institutions in the Russian provinces weathered the monumental changes of the early 1990s better than others.

Using newly available economic, political, and sociological data to test various theories of democratization and institutional performance, Stoner-Weiss finds that traditional theories are unable to explain variations in regional government performance in Russia.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-233) and index.