State-building : a comparative study of Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, and Russia / / Verena Fritz

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910821079303321
• Autore: Fritz Verena
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Budapest ; ; New York, : Central European University Press, 2007
• ISBN: 615-5211-12-4; 1-281-37700-7; 9786611377007; 1-4294-7788-1
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiv, 384 p. )
• Classificazione: 327.5
• Disciplina: 320.947
• Soggetti: Democracy - Former Soviet republics; Post-communism - Former Soviet republics; Finance, Public - Former Soviet republics; Former Soviet republics Politics and government
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Fiscal developments : reforms and revelations -- From Kuchma to Yushenko : re-tooling the state -- Summary: the state-building process in Ukraine as reflected in the fiscal system -- Averting institutional change : the case of Belarus -- Political developments : from liberalization to democracy -- Economic developments : preserving the command economy -- Belarus' international situation -- State-society relations in Belarus -- Fiscal policies -- Belarus : the strong state that does not want to be a state -- Lithuania : moving towards a Western model -- Political developments : early elite re-configuration and after -- Economic developments : the great leap from communism to capitalism -- State-society relations in Lithuania -- Fiscal and budgetary system -- State capacity and its determinants in Lithuania -- The "authoritarianizing" route to recovery : the case of Russian tax reform -- The stage : political power and oligarchic groups -- The economic background to reform -- State-society relations -- Fiscal crisis and tax reform : surveying explanations -- From drag to leap : the gestation and eventual success of tax reform -- From ; prolonged deterioration to unfinished recovery : the Russian path of state-building -- Conclusion; The casual model -- Individual and casual factors -- State-building trajectories -- Summary -- State-building in the post-Soviet region -- The Soviet state and its fiscal system -- Institutional deterioration : perestroika and the break-up of the Soviet Union -- State-building in the post-Soviet universe -- Exploring some quantitative relationships : level of development and political consolidation -- Summary -- From Soviet breakdown to disordered independence -- From Soviet republic to independent Ukraine -- The great depression : economic crisis after independence -- The challenge of nation-building -- Struggles for power and institutional weakness -- A fiscal system in crisis [confusion in text about 5th subtitle] -- The first steps of state-building -- A new trajectory taking shape -- Economic stabilization and virtualization -- The bid for presidential consolidation -- State-society relations the rise of political-business groups and weak -- Democratic accountability -- External factors -- Stabilizing the fiscal system -- [see error here on title 4.3] -- Shaping and distorting the new state -- The second transition -- From hybrid regime to unconsolidated democracy -- Economic recovery and socio-economic policies of the new government -- The power of civil society and the continuing importance of opaque groups -- External influences on the rise; The state and state-building definitions and debates -- The state and state-building -- Fiscal perspectives on the state -- Regimes and states : the missing link in the transition debate -- Potential contributions of post-Soviet cases to general theories of state-building -- A framework for assessing states: size, capacity, and quality -- The three aspects of the state -- States as problems and solutions under various regimes -- The size of the state -- State capacity : decision-making, implementation, and control -- The dynamic of change : state-building as institution building -- State-building as institutional change : deterioration and re-building -- The costs and risks of institutional change -- Types of institutional change -- The importance of formal-informal discrepancies -- A model of post-Soviet state-building trajectories
• Sommario/riassunto: Looks at the process of state-building in Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, and Russia from a political economy and institutional perspective. Weak and distorted state capacity has come to be widely recognized as a key obstacle to successful transformation—including economic modernization and growth as well as the consolidation of democracy. However, so far little systematic research has been carried out on state capacity per se and on how to explain its development.The book provides new insights in considering the evolution of Ukraine since 1992, offering an in-depth view of institutional development in crucial areas and thus tracing the process of state-building. It draws comparisons with developments in Belarus, Lithuania, and Russia (based on field research). To capture the process of state-building empirically, focuses on the extraction and expenditure systems which are a central pillar of state capacity and also a central link between citizens and the state. The book also sheds light on how Ukraine’s potential ‘second transition’ currently under way will have an impact on its institutional system.