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Bureaucratic reform and Russian transition: the puzzles of policy-making process

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  • Svetlana Inkina

    (Higher School of Economics
    Higher School of Economics
    University of Toronto)

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During the two decades of post-Soviet transition, Russia has created a complex system of civil service and public administration. This system was first reformed in the early 1990s and then again in the early 2000s. The analysis presented here fills a gap in the existing literature concerning the dynamic of change associated with Russian civil service reform (CSR). It is argued that the process of bureaucratic modernization in Russia is undermined by the ambivalent nature of policy leadership with its financial, administrative, and technical support, and the ongoing bargain among policy advocates and policy implementers. In order to account for the outcomes reached by policy-makers, the paper presents a detailed analysis of expert interviews collected by the author among research community specialists, federal legislators, and other participants in the reform. The discussion highlights the importance of power dynamics, which resolves conflicting views of CSR among policy formulators and policy implementers. The findings, which consist of identifying necessary and sufficient conditions of the change process, have implications for studies of modern Russian politics, states in regime transition, and world-wide modernization.

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  • Svetlana Inkina, 2019. "Bureaucratic reform and Russian transition: the puzzles of policy-making process," Palgrave Communications, Palgrave Macmillan, vol. 5(1), pages 1-15, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palcom:v:5:y:2019:i:1:d:10.1057_s41599-019-0238-5
    DOI: 10.1057/s41599-019-0238-5
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