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UNINA9910788467903321 |
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Autore |
Taylor Brian D. <1964-> |
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State building in Putin's Russia : policing and coercion after communism / / Brian D. Taylor [[electronic resource]] |
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Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2011 |
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1-139-01240-1 |
1-107-21657-5 |
1-283-01727-X |
9786613017277 |
1-139-00959-1 |
1-139-00907-9 |
1-139-01012-3 |
1-139-00797-1 |
1-139-00686-X |
0-511-97414-0 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xvii, 373 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Post-communism - Russia (Federation) - History |
Power (Social sciences) - Russia (Federation) - History |
Federal government - Russia (Federation) - History |
Police power - Russia (Federation) - History |
Duress (Law) - Russia (Federation) - History |
State, The - History - 20th century |
State, The - History - 21st century |
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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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Bringing the gun back in : coercion and the state -- The power ministries and the siloviki -- Coercion and capacity : political order and the central state -- Coercion and capacity : centralization and federalism -- Coercion and quality : power ministry practices and personnel -- Coercion and quality : the state and society -- Coercion in |
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the North Caucasus -- State capacity and quality reconsidered -- Appendix A: Publication abbreviations -- Appendix B: Interview index. |
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This book argues that Putin's strategy for rebuilding the state was fundamentally flawed. Taylor demonstrates that a disregard for the way state officials behave toward citizens - state quality - had a negative impact on what the state could do - state capacity. Focusing on those organizations that control state coercion, what Russians call the 'power ministries', Taylor shows that many of the weaknesses of the Russian state that existed under Boris Yeltsin persisted under Putin. Drawing on extensive field research and interviews, as well as a wide range of comparative data, the book reveals the practices and norms that guide the behavior of Russian power ministry officials (the so-called siloviki), especially law enforcement personnel. By examining siloviki behavior from the Kremlin down to the street level, State Building in Putin's Russia uncovers the who, where and how of Russian state building after communism. |
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UNINA9910958158303321 |
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Rethinking ghosts in world religions / / edited by Mu-chou Poo |
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Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2009 |
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1-282-40040-1 |
9786612400407 |
90-474-2484-0 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (360 p.) |
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Numen book series. Studies in the history of religions, , 0169-8834 ; ; v. 123 |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Proceedings of a conference held in Dec. 2005. |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-335) and index. |
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Wind and smoke : giving up the ghost of Enkidu, comprehending |
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Enkidu's ghosts / Jerrold S. Cooper -- Belief and the dead in Pharaonic Egypt / Christopher J. Eyre -- Where have all the ghosts gone? : evolution of a concept in biblical literature / Sze-kar Wan -- Ghosts and responsibility : the Hebrew Bible, Confucius, Plato / Steven Shankman -- The Roman manes : the dead as gods / Charles W. King -- The ghostly troop and the battle over death : William of Auvergne (d. 1249) connects Christian, Old Norse, and Irish views / Alan E. Bernstein -- Ghosts of the European Enlightenment / Fernando Vidal -- Ghost, vampire, and scientific naturalism : observation and evidence in the supernatural fiction of Grant Allen, Bram Stoker and Arthur Conan Doyle / Shang-jen Li -- The cult of Vetala and Tantric fantasy / Po-chi Huang -- The culture of ghosts in the Six Dynasties period (c. 220-589 C.E.) / Mu-chou Poo -- Allegorical narrative in Six Dynasties anomaly tales : ghostly sightings and afterworld vengeance / Yuan-ju Liu -- Chinese ghosts : reconciling psychoanalytic, structuralist, and Marxian perspectives / P. Steven Sangren. |
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The central theme of this volume is to re-examine the received concepts and images of ghosts in various religious cultures ranging from the Ancient Near East and Egypt to the Old Testament, the Classical Era, Early Medieval and Early Modern Europe, Early India, and Medieval China. As a religious phenomenon, the realm of ghosts has been less studied than the realm of the divine. Through a collaborative effort by scholars from different disciplines, this volume proposes a multi-cultural approach to construct a wider and complicated picture of the phenomenon of ghosts and spirits in human societies and to have a grasp of the various problems involved in understanding the phenomenon of ghost. |
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