LEADER 03833nam 22005655 450 001 9910584478603321 005 20230810175324.0 010 $a9783031057892$b(electronic bk.) 010 $z9783031057885 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-05789-2 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC7045493 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL7045493 035 $a(CKB)24266130500041 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-05789-2 035 $a(EXLCZ)9924266130500041 100 $a20220714d2022 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aAutocracy and Health Governance in Russia /$fby Vlad Kravtsov 205 $a1st ed. 2022. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2022. 215 $a1 online resource (267 pages) 311 08$aPrint version: Kravtsov, Vlad Autocracy and Health Governance in Russia Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2022 9783031057885 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aChapter 1. Personalistic regimes and the processes of governance -- Chapter 2. Providing goods: health mandates and authoritarian performance -- Chapter 3. Managing actors: faulty controls and flawed performance -- Chapter 4. Constructing the oversight: organizational atrophy and particularized exchanges -- Chapter 5. Securitizing the epidemic: ideological adaptations and illiberal meanings -- Chapter 6. Conclusions, implications, and dashed hopes. 330 $aThe book is the first attempt to investigate how and to what extent authoritarian (personalistic) regimes fail to provide fundamental goods and services. For two decades, Russian authorities spent much effort and money to improve health administration, but most success stories are borderline fake. The failure is by design; because personalistic regimes rely on personalized exchanges and bargains instead of impersonal rules and permanent organizations, all actors put self-interest ahead of patients' needs. It is a severe problem because authoritarian principals proclaim social betterment as their central goal -- and many Russians take such claims at face value -- but incentivize their agents to imitate progress and tolerate slipshod performance. The benefits of this investigation are three-fold. First, the book provides an analytical framework of bad governance rooted in the rational institutionalist tradition and connected to competence-control theory. Second, it gives a general readership interested in how Russia works a sense of the key political players' mindset and the regime-induced constraints under which elites operate. Third, although the book investigates health governance exclusively, its analytical framework is portable to other issue areas and could be applied to explain how and why Russia evolved into an ineffective, coercive, and predatory state under Putin's leadership. Vlad Kravtsov is Associate Professor of Political Science & Law at Spring Hill College, the US. . 606 $aEurope$xPolitics and government 606 $aRussia$xHistory 606 $aEurope, Eastern$xHistory 606 $aSoviet Union$xHistory 606 $aEuropean Politics 606 $aRussian, Soviet, and East European History 615 0$aEurope$xPolitics and government. 615 0$aRussia$xHistory. 615 0$aEurope, Eastern$xHistory. 615 0$aSoviet Union$xHistory. 615 14$aEuropean Politics. 615 24$aRussian, Soviet, and East European History. 676 $a320.53 676 $a353.60947 700 $aKravtsov$b Vlad$01094330 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 912 $a9910584478603321 996 $aAutocracy and Health Governance in Russia$92901641 997 $aUNINA