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      The Socio-Economic Machinery of Dominance in Russia

      Market as a Weapon

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      The Socio-Economic Machinery of Dominance in Russia
      ByAnton Oleinik
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2011
      eBook Published 25 October 2017
      Pub. Location New York
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203786307
      Pages 390
      eBook ISBN 9780203786307
      Subjects Economics, Finance, Business & Industry
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      Oleinik, A. (2011). Market as a Weapon: The Socio-Economic Machinery of Dominance in Russia (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203786307

      ABSTRACT

      Power is all-encompassing in Russia, and mediates most interactions among people, including everyday decisions. Even the recent administrative reforms in the country, which began at the end of the 1990s, have tried to reshape the government institutions and modernize the country through the use of power. Changes were initiated and implemented by people vested with power. Power, convention, and trust can all support coordination. However, in the Russian institutional context power tends not only to supplement the alternative coordination mechanisms but also to substitute them. Power can be used to solve problems related to social action by merging two (or several) centers of decision-making into one. The actor vested with power decides exactly how coordination and adjustment can be achieved. This path-breaking volume shows how power turns into a unique coordination mechanism and what are consequences of such transformation for everyday life and businesses. Market as a Weapon focuses on issues of power and domination using the configuration of power relationships in Russia as a "critical case," but goes far beyond a narrowly defined scope of country-specific studies. Particular emphasis is put on domination by virtue of a constellation interests in the market, since this is a relatively underexplored yet broadly used technique for imposing will in all countries that heavily rely on interventionist policies. Instead of being a liberating force, the market becomes an additional instrument facilitating the continuous reproduction of power, which explains the title of the book. Both qualitative and quantitative data, including more than one hundred in-depth interviews with experts, state servants, and businesspeople in Russia, as well as statistics, are used throughout the text of this major book.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter 1|42 pages

      Introduction: Market Power on the Make

      chapter 2|31 pages

      A Taxonomy of Power Relationships

      chapter 3|25 pages

      Russian Power: Constructing an Ideal Type

      chapter 4|41 pages

      Continuity and Change in the Prevailing Model of Power: On Path-Dependence in Russian History

      chapter 5|34 pages

      Market as a Weapon: Domination by Virtue of a Constellation of Interests

      chapter 6|21 pages

      Minimizing Missed Opportunities: A New Model of Choice?

      chapter 7|37 pages

      Doing Business in a Russian Region: Controlling Access to the Field

      chapter 8|39 pages

      Existing and Potential Constraints Limiting State Servants’ Opportunism

      chapter 9|23 pages

      Conclusion: Impossible Change?

      chapter 10|25 pages

      Methodological Appendix: Mixing Quantitative and Qualitative Content Analysis

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