The Politics of Inequality in Russia.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011Copyright date: ©2011Description: 1 online resource (236 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781139081252Subject(s): Democracy -- Russia (Federation) | Equality -- Russia (Federation) | Income -- Russia (Federation) | Income distribution -- Russia (Federation) | Poverty -- Russia (Federation) | Wealth -- Russia (Federation)Genre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Politics of Inequality in RussiaDDC classification: 339.220947 LOC classification: HC340.12.Z9 I5162 2011Online resources: Click to ViewCover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Preface -- 1 The Political Sources of Income Inequality in Russia -- 1.1. Inequality and Globalization -- 1.2. Income Inequality in the United States and Russia: Toward Convergence -- 1.3. Democracy and Inequality -- 1.4. Explaining Inequality in Russia -- 1.5. State Capacity and Regional Diversity -- 1.6. The Argument -- 2 Employment, Earnings, and Welfare in the Russian Transition -- 2.1. The Soviet Social Contract -- 2.2. The 1990s: Informalization and Decentralization of Wages and Welfare -- 2.3. Labor and Social Partnership -- 2.4. Reform and Recovery, 1998-2008 -- The Single Social Tax -- The Labor Code of 2001 -- Monetization of In-Kind Social Benefits -- Pension Reform -- Minimum Wage -- Economic Crisis, 2008-2009 -- 2.5. Conclusion -- 3 Regime Diversity in the Russian Regions -- 3.1. Antireform Regimes: Neopatrimonialism and Autarky -- Primorsk -- Ulyanovsk -- Kaliningrad -- 3.2. Market-Adaptive Regimes: Pluralism and Coordination -- Perm' -- Yaroslavl' -- Samara -- 4 Democracy and Inequality in the Russian Regions -- 4.1. Democracy, Income, and Output -- 4.2. Wages, Social Spending, and Social Dependency -- 4.3. Dynamic Effects -- 4.4. Other Sources of Income and Employment -- 4.5. Conclusion -- 4.6. Variables and Sources -- 5 Regional Regimes and the Labor Market: Evidence from the NOBUS Survey -- 5.1. The NOBUS Survey -- Categories of Benefits -- Adjustments for Prices and Household Size -- 5.2. Predicting Variation in Individual Income -- 5.3. Household Cash Income -- 5.4. Household Level of Analysis (Total Adjusted Wage and Social Income) -- 5.5. Aggregating to the Regional Level -- 5.6. The Distribution of Household Incomes by Region -- 6 Helping Hands or Grabbing Hands? Government-Business Relations in the Regions.
6.1. Models of Enterprise-Government Relations -- 6.2. The BEEPS Data -- 6.3. Regional Regimes and the Business Environment -- 6.4. Validity Checks -- 6.5. Conclusion -- 7 Accounting for Regime Differences -- 7.1. Elite Discretion -- 7.2. Uncertain Sources, Uneven Impact -- 7.3. Organized Pluralism -- 8 After the Crash -- Index.
This book explains why the most nondemocratic regions have the lowest incomes, the lowest inequality and the highest poverty.
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