Resisting the State: Reform and Retrenchment in Post-Soviet Russia - Hardcover

Kathryn Stoner-Weiss

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 052182463X ISBN 13: 9780521824637

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2006

Synopsis

This book looks at the issue of governance capability by using post-communist Russia as an example.

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About the Author

Kathryn Stoner-Weiss is Associate Director and Senior Research Associate at the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law, Stanford University. Previously she taught in the Department of Politics at Princeton University for nine years before coming to Stanford. At Princeton, she was awarded the Ralph O. Glendinning Preceptorship for outstanding junior faculty. She was also a fellow at the Davis Center for Russian Studies at Harvard University and the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies at the Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars. Professor Stoner-Weiss is the co-editor of After the Collapse of Communism: Comparative Lessons of Transition (with Michael McFaul, Cambridge University Press, 2004) and the author of Local Heroes: The Political Economy of Russian Regional Governance (1997), in addition to many articles and book chapters on contemporary Russia.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 052182463X
• ISBN 13: 9780521824637
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 182