Este autor profundiza en temas sociales y políticos trascendentales, con un enfoque particular en Rusia y Europa del Este. Su obra examina críticamente la intrincada relación entre la sociedad y el poder, empleando a menudo un enfoque interdisciplinario. Los lectores apreciarán sus agudas análisis y su habilidad para iluminar aspectos clave de los fenómenos geopolíticos y sociales contemporáneos. Sus escritos se basan en una investigación exhaustiva, ofreciendo una perspectiva novedosa sobre la dinámica de la región.
Considers bad governance as a distinctive politico-economic order that is based on a set of formal and informal rules, norms, and practices quite different from those of good governance. Vladimir Gel'man considers bad governance as a primarily agency-driven rather than structure-induced phenomenon.
The politico-economic reforms launched during the late twentieth century in post-Soviet Russia have led to contradictory and ambiguous results. The new economic environment and mode of governance that emerged have been subjected to serious criticism. What were the causes of these developments? Were they unavoidable for Russia due to specific factors grounded in the country’s previous experiences? Or were they an intended result of actions taken by the leaders of the country during the last few decades? The authors of this book share neither a deterministic approach, which implies that Russia is bound to fail because of the nature of its economic and political evolution, nor a voluntarist approach, which implies that these failures were caused only by the incompetence and/or malicious intentions of its leaders. Instead, this study offers a different framework for the analysis of political and economic developments in present-day Russia. It is based on four ‘i’s—ideas, interests, institutions, and illusions.