Continuity, Change and Power Relations in Russian Capitalism
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Alexandra Vasileva
University of Amsterdam
Department for Political Science
Boston University, 1 Oct 2014
Continuity, Change and Power Relations in Russian Capitalism
My PhD research
Development of Russia‘s Political Economy compared to other BRICs
Macro-level. How politics interacts with the economy (business)
What was the trajectory? Why this particular trajectory?
1992-2002 2003-….
Continuity and Change in Russian Political Economy
liberalismliberalism
statism statism
patrimonialism patrimonialism
BRICs
Beginning of arrow: 1998End of arrow: 2008
Liberal Embedded(statist + patrimonial) 100 75 25 50
Russia ChinaUSA
Brazil India
W h y ?
• Why this trajectory (why so patrimonial..)?
• Why different than the BRICs?
• Why does the state dominate business (not so in the West..) ?
…Answer from the perspective of power relations
Understanding power relations
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studying the distribution of power resources
Power resources bureuacracy vs firms: Some aspects
• Formal „strenght“ of the Russian state vis-a-vis business– Control of legal system– Physical violence. Raiding..
• It‘s all about informal relations
• Normality !– of personal relations – of solving problems informally – of corruption