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UNINA9910465634003321 |
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Volkov Vadim <1965-> |
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Violent entrepreneurs : the use of force in the making of Russian capitalism / / Vadim Volkov |
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Ithaca, New York ; ; London, [England] : , : Cornell University Press, , 2002 |
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©2002 |
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1-5017-0328-5 |
1-5017-0329-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (220 p.) |
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Organized crime - Russia (Federation) |
Capitalism - Russia (Federation) |
Law enforcement - Russia (Federation) |
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Russia (Federation) Social conditions 1991- |
Russia (Federation) Politics and government 1991- |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Veblen's warning -- Violent entrepreneurship -- The violence-managing agency -- Bandits and capitalists -- The privatization of the power ministries -- The politics of state formation. |
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Entering the shady world of what he calls "violent entrepreneurship," Vadim Volkov explores the economic uses of violence and coercion in Russia in the 1990s. Violence has played, he shows, a crucial role in creating the institutions of a new market economy. The core of his work is competition among so-called violence-managing agencies-criminal groups, private security services, private protection companies, and informal protective agencies associated with the state-which multiplied with the liberal reforms of the early 1990s. This competition provides an unusual window on the dynamics of state formation. Violent Entrepreneurs is remarkable for its research. Volkov conducted numerous interviews with members of criminal groups, heads of protection companies, law enforcement employees, and |
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businesspeople. He bases his findings on journalistic and anecdotal evidence as well as on his own personal observation. Volkov investigates the making of violence-prone groups in sports clubs (particularly martial arts clubs), associations for veterans of the Soviet-Afghan war, ethnic gangs, and regionally based social groups, and he traces the changes in their activities across the decade. Some groups wore state uniforms and others did not, but all of their members spoke and acted essentially the same and were engaged in the same activities: intimidation, protection, information gathering, dispute management, contract enforcement, and taxation. Each group controlled the same resource-organized violence. |
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UNINA9910495961203321 |
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Autore |
Danielson Michael N. |
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New York : The Politics of Urban Regional Development / / Michael N. Danielson, Jameson W. Doig |
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Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [1982] |
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©1982 |
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9786612355189 |
0-520-90689-6 |
1-282-35518-X |
0-585-33127-8 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (401 p.) |
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Lane Studies in Regional Government ; ; 4 |
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Regional planning - New York (State) |
City planning - New York (State) - New York |
Urban renewal - New York (State) - New York |
New York Region Politics and government |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Front matter -- Contents -- Tables -- Maps -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Terms of Office -- 1. |
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Government and Urban Development -- 2. Development in the New York Region -- 3. Maximizing Internal Benefits -- 4. Minimizing Outside Intervention -- 5. Political Actors of Regional Scope -- 6. Concentrating Resources on Highway Development -- 7. Mass Transportation and the Limited Capabilities of Government -- 8. Concentrating Resources in the Older Cities -- 9. Urban Renewal: Political Skill and Constituency Pressures -- 10. Patterns of Government Action -- Index |
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This volume is the fourth in the Franklin K. Lane series on the governance of major metropolitan regions. The series is sponsored by the Institute of Governmental Studies and the Institute of International Studies, University of California in Berkeley. Readers of these volumes and other relevant literature will no doubt agree with the authors of this book that similar patterns are found in New York, London, Toronto, Stockholm, and indeed in ";every other major metropolitan region in the United States and in other advanced industrial societies."; The presence of such common factors and trends, although they assume different configurations in various metropolitan regions, has been demonstrated by the work of many scholars, including Peter Hall, Brian Berry, Marion Clawson, Jean Gottmann, Larry Bourne and William Robson, as well as by the authors of the other Franklin K. Lane books-Donald Foley, Albert Rose and Thomas Anton. In the present volume Michael Danielson and Jameson Doig have described and analyzed the cultural, economic, political and other social forces shaping development in the New York region. They present a picture of a region singular in its attractions, problems, geographic scope, magnitude of development, and complexity of the network of organizations involved in its governance. |
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