Assaults on democracy are increasingly coming from the actions of duly elected
governments, rather than coups. Backsliding examines the processes through which elected …

The raging question in the world today is who is the real Vladimir Putin and what are his
intentions. Karen Dawisha's brilliant Putin's Kleptocracy provides an answer, describing how …

Offering a single, coherent framework of the political, economic, and social phenomena that
characterize post-communist regimes, this is the most comprehensive work on the subject to …

Pushing postcolonial studies and constructivist International Relations towards an uneasy
dialogue, this book looks at Russia as a subaltern empire. It demonstrates how the dialectic …

A penetrating look into the extreme plutocracy Vladimir Putin has created and its
implications for Russia's future This insightful study explores how the economic system …

Institutions are the kinds of structures that matter most in the social realm: they make up the
stuff of social life. The increasing acknowledgement of the role of institutions in social life …

What is the interrelationship among formal institutions, social networks, and new venture
growth? Drawing on the theory of institutional polycentrism and social network theory, we …

Family ties are an important conduit of resources for entrepreneurs, but both positive and
negative outcomes can arise. Building upon a family embeddedness perspective, we …

We study the effect of media coverage on corporate governance by focusing on Russia in
the period 1999 to 2002. We find that an investment fund's lobbying increases coverage of …

In this paper we use a comparative perspective to explore the ways in which institutions and
networks have influenced entrepreneurial development in Russia. We utilize Global …