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Local Heroes: The Political Economy Of Russian Regional Governance,Used
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In Local Heroes, Kathryn StonerWeiss analyzes a crucial aspect of one of the great dramas of modern timesthe reconstitution of the Russian polity and economy after more than seventy years of communist rule. This is the first book to look comprehensively and systematically at Russia's democratic transition at the local level. Its goal is to explain why some of the new political institutions in the Russian provinces weathered the monumental changes of the early 1990s better than others. Using newly available economic, political, and sociological data to test various theories of democratization and institutional performance, StonerWeiss finds that traditional theories are unable to explain variations in regional government performance in Russia.Local Heroes argues that the legacy of the former economic system influenced the operation of new political institutions in important and often unexpected ways. Past institutional structures, specifically the concentration of the regional economy, promoted the formation of political and economic coalitions within a new protodemocratic institutional framework. These coalitions have had positive effects on governmental performance. For democratic theorists, this may be a surprising conclusion. However, it is possible, as StonerWeiss suggests, that the needs of democratic development may be different in the short run than in the long run. The 'local heroes' of today may be impediments to the further development of democracy tomorrow. This provocative work, solidly grounded in research and theory, will interest anyone concerned with issues of economic and political transition.
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