Federal Bargaining in Russia: Regional Politics in the Urals (original) (raw)

2022, PhD Dissertation in Comparative Politics

This thesis examines how informal institutions operate in federal relations and how they affect the dynamics of federal bargaining in contemporary Russia. In addressing these issues, the research considers how elite groups and networks operating in centre-region relations were bonded together by a complex network of vertical and horizontal ties and interactions. On the one hand informal rules of the game played a complementary role and have been instrumental to the construction and consolidation of a centralized and vertical system of governance, integrating the sub-national level into a bureaucratic hierarchy. On the other hand, however, the overreliance on informal rules and personalistic interaction between central and local elite networks and within the regional polity, played a substitutive role, deeply affecting the capacity of the centre to effectively exercise control over the regions.

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