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While Russias political system has become steadily less democratic in recent years, Molly ONeals impressive Democracy, Civic Culture and Small Business in Russias Regions shows that small business associations have been a key factor working against this trend. Well grounded in hard statistical analysis, the heart of the book is its vivid case studies of four different regions that grow out of the authors research on location. Each case study features personal profiles of small business association leaders and fascinating accounts of their efforts to influence policymaking, efforts ONeal shows also tend to promote political pluralism. The regional accounts also call attention to exceptions, providing a rich sense of the often-overlooked geographic variety that Russian politics features and that this book shows are rooted firmly in history. This study will be of interest to anyone who cares about Russia, democracy, and connections between politics and economics.

Henry Hale
Elliott School of International Affairs,
George Washington University

Impressive excellent original addresses large and profound issues, in a sophisticated way could well have an appeal beyond the Russian studies audience.

Philip Hanson
Chatham House and University of Birmingham

This fascinating study, of Putnam-esque ambition, brings a fresh perspective to the forces shaping Russias trajectory over the past generation. Focusing on the nascent small business community in four different regions, ONeals richly textured analysis highlights post-communisms complex interplay of politics, economics and history.

William Pyle
Frederick C. Dirks Professor of
International Economics
Middlebury College

This substantial work investigates the sources and limits of democratization in Russia during the past two decades. Most previous studies of this subject have concentrated on country-wide Russian political trends; by contrast, this one compares sub-national Russian regions whose levels of democratization vary substantially from one another. The book combines quantitative analysis of a large data set covering all of Russias federal regions with four case studies that examine processes of democratization (and non-democratization) in depth. The result is a well-crafted appraisal of the role of small businesses in regional political development since the breakup of the USSR.

Bruce Parrott
Johns Hopkins University

Democracy, Civic Culture and Small Business in Russias Regions

This book adopts a novel analytical approach to understanding how Russias stalled democratization is related to the incomplete liberalization of the economy. Based on extensive original comparative study of Russias regions, the book explores the precise channels of interaction that create the mutuality of property rights, entrepreneurship, rule of law, norms of citizenship and liberal democracy. It demonstrates that the extent of democratization varies across regions, and that this variation is connected to the extent of liberalization of the economy. Moreover, it argues that the key factor in producing this linkage is the relative prominence of small business owners and their supporters in articulating their interests vis--vis regional and local administrations, especially through the institutionalization of networks and business associations. The book develops its key theses by means of detailed analysis of the experiences of four case study regions. Overall, the book provides a major contribution to understanding the path of democratization in Russia.

Molly ONeal is a Visiting Research Scholar at Johns Hopkins Universitys School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, DC.

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2 Civil-Military Relations in Russia and Eastern Europe

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3 The Extreme Nationalist Threat in Russia

The growing influence of Western Rightist ideas

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4 Economic Development in Tatarstan

Global markets and a Russian region

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5 Adapting to Russias New Labour Market

Gender and employment strategy

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6 Building Democracy and Civil Society East of the Elbe

Essays in honour of Edmund Mokrzycki

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8 The Development of Capitalism in Russia

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9 Russian Television Today

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11 A Russian Factory Enters the Market Economy

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12 Democracy Building and Civil Society in Post-Soviet Armenia

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13 NATO-Russia Relations in the Twenty-First Century

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14 Russian Military Reform

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15 The Multilateral Dimension in Russian Foreign Policy

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16 Russian Nationalism and the National Reassertion of Russia

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17 The Caucasus An Introduction

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18 Radical Islam in the Former Soviet Union

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19 Russias European Agenda and the Baltic States

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