State-building
Subtitle: a comparative study of Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, and Russia
By: Verena Fritz.
Publisher: Central European University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Budapest; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9789637326905
Subjects: Democracy -- Former Soviet republics; Post-communism -- Former Soviet republics; Finance, Public -- Former Soviet republics; Former Soviet republics -- Politics and government
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The state and state-building definitions and debates; title: The state and state-building; title: Fiscal perspectives on the state; title: Regimes and states : the missing link in the transition debate; title: Potential contributions of post-Soviet cases to general theories of state-building; title: A framework for assessing states: size, capacity, and quality; title: The three aspects of the state; title: States as problems and solutions under various regimes; title: The size of the state; title: State capacity : decision-making, implementation, and control; title: The dynamic of change : state-building as institution building; title: State-building as institutional change : deterioration and re-building; title: The costs and risks of institutional change; title: Types of institutional change; title: The importance of formal-informal discrepancies; title: A model of post-Soviet state-building trajectories; title: The casual model; title: Individual and casual factors; title: State-building trajectories; title: Summary; title: State-building in the post-Soviet region; title: The Soviet state and its fiscal system; title: Institutional deterioration : perestroika and the break-up of the Soviet Union; title: State-building in the post-Soviet universe; title: Exploring some quantitative relationships : level of development  and political consolidation; title: Summary; title: From Soviet breakdown to disordered independence; title: From Soviet republic to independent Ukraine; title: The great depression : economic crisis after independence; title: The challenge of nation-building; title: Struggles for power and institutional weakness; title: A fiscal system in crisis [confusion in text about 5th subtitle]; title: The first steps of state-building; title: A new trajectory taking shape; title: Economic stabilization and virtualization; title: The bid for presidential consolidation; title: State-society relations  the rise of political-business groups and weak; title: Democratic accountability; title: External factors; title: Stabilizing the fiscal system; title: [see error here on title 4.3]; title: Shaping and distorting the new state; title: The second transition; title: From hybrid regime to unconsolidated democracy; title: Economic recovery and socio-economic policies of the new government; title: The power of civil society and the continuing importance of opaque groups; title: External influences on the rise; title: Fiscal developments : reforms and revelations; title: From Kuchma to Yushenko : re-tooling the state; title: Summary: the state-building process in Ukraine as reflected in the fiscal system; title: Averting institutional change : the case of Belarus; title: Political developments : from liberalization to democracy; title: Economic developments : preserving the command economy; title: Belarus' international situation; title: State-society relations in Belarus; title: Fiscal policies; title: Belarus : the strong state that does not want to be a state; title: Lithuania : moving towards a Western model; title: Political developments : early elite re-configuration and after; title: Economic developments : the great leap from communism to capitalism; title: State-society relations in Lithuania; title: Fiscal and budgetary system; title: State capacity and its determinants in Lithuania; title: The "authoritarianizing" route to recovery : the case of Russian tax reform; title: The stage : political power and oligarchic groups; title: The economic background to reform; title: State-society relations; title: Fiscal crisis and tax reform : surveying explanations; title: From drag to leap : the gestation and eventual success of tax reform; title: From prolonged deterioration to unfinished recovery : the Russian path of state-building; title: Conclusion.