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  • Public Administration in Post-Communist Countries

    Former Soviet Union, Central and Eastern Europe, and Mongolia

    Series series Public Administration and Public Policy
    Although it has been more than 20 years since Communism crumbled in Central and Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, many scholars and politicians still wonder what the lifting of the Iron Curtain has really meant for these former Communist countries. And, because these countries were largely closed off to the world for so long, there has yet to be an all-inclusive study on their administrative ... Read more

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  • Handbook of Human Resource Management in Government

    Edited by Stephen E. Condrey ...
    Series Book 40 - Essential Texts for Nonprofit and Public Leadership and Management
    HANDBOOK OF HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT IN GOVERNMENT, THIRD EDITIONThe practice of public human resource management has evolved significantly in recent years due to increased outsourcing, privatization, and the diminution of public employee rights. This thoroughly revised and updated edition of the classic reference Handbook of Human Resource Management in Government offers authoritative, state-of ... Read more

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    Markets, Aid, and Reform

    In the mid-1990s, as many as one million North Koreans died in one of the worst famines of the twentieth century. The socialist food distribution system collapsed primarily because of a misguided push for self-reliance, but was compounded by the regime's failure to formulate a quick response-including the blocking of desperately needed humanitarian relief.As households, enterprises, local party ... Read more

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  • How Capitalism Was Built

    The Transformation of Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, the Caucasus, and Central Asia

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  • Tax Politics in Eastern Europe

    Globalization, Regional Integration, and the Democratic Compromise

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  • Institutional Reform in Central Asia

    Politico-Economic Challenges

    Series series Central Asian Studies
    The countries of Central Asia are increasingly the focus of intense international attention due to their geopolitical and economic importance as well as their unsettled transition processes. The region faced enormous challenges when the Soviet Union disintegrated, and this book focuses on the reforms of the institutional environment that have been largely neglected.Through an interdisciplinary ... Read more

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  • Russia's Changing Economic and Political Regimes

    The Putin Years and Afterwards

    Series series Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy
    The book reveals the interconnection between social, cultural and political protest movements and social and economic changes in a post-communist country like Russia still dominated by bureaucratic rulers and "oligarchs" controlling all basic industries and mining activities. Those interests are also dominating Russia’s foreign policy and explain why Russia did not succeed in becoming an integral ... Read more

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  • The State as Investment Market

    Kyrgyzstan in Comparative Perspective

    by Johan Engvall ...
    Series Book 24 - Central Eurasia in Context
    Based on a detailed examination of Kyrgyzstan, Johan Engvall goes well beyond the case of this single country to elaborate a broad theory of economic corruption in developing post-Soviet states regionally—as a rational form of investment market for political elites. He reveals how would-be officials invest in offices to obtain access to income streams associated with those offices. Drawing on ... Read more

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  • Russia's Response to Sanctions

    How Western Economic Statecraft is Reshaping Political Economy in Russia

    In the first in-depth analysis of the effects of sanctions on the Russian political economy, Richard Connolly details the Western sanctions targeting the energy, defense and financial sectors, and the Russian response. He explores how the Western sanctions have caused Russian officials to formulate rapid policy responses to enable the country to adapt to the new circumstances. The sanctions and ... Read more

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  • Postcommunist Welfare States

    Reform Politics in Russia and Eastern Europe

    by Linda J. Cook ...
    In the early 1990s, the countries of the former Soviet Bloc faced an urgent need to reform the systems by which they delivered broad, basic social welfare to their citizens. Inherited systems were inefficient and financially unsustainable. Linda J. Cook here explores the politics and policy of social welfare from 1990 to 2004 in the Russian Federation, Poland, Hungary, Belarus, and Kazakhstan. ... Read more

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  • Hard Target

    Sanctions, Inducements, and the Case of North Korea

    Series series Studies in Asian Security
    Because authoritarian regimes like North Korea can impose the costs of sanctions on their citizens, these regimes constitute "hard targets." Yet authoritarian regimes may also be immune—and even hostile—to economic inducements if such inducements imply reform and opening. This book captures the effects of sanctions and inducements on North Korea and provides a detailed reconstruction of the role ... Read more

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  • Oil Is Not a Curse

    Ownership Structure and Institutions in Soviet Successor States

    Series series Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
    This 2010 book makes two central claims: first, that mineral-rich states are cursed not by their wealth but, rather, by the ownership structure they choose to manage their mineral wealth and second, that weak institutions are not inevitable in mineral-rich states. Each represents a significant departure from the conventional resource curse literature, which has treated ownership structure as a ... Read more

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