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Autocracy and Health Governance in Russia by Vlad Kravtsov is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Autocracy and Health Governance in Russia about?

Preface 5 Contents 7 1 Personalistic Regimes and the Processes of Governance 10 Introduction 10 Russia’s Electoral Authoritarianism Under Personalist Rule: Essential Features 13 Governance in Putin’s Russia: Optimizing Responses and Undesirable Outcomes 21 The President Promises: Providing Public Goods in the Electoral Autocracy 22 Bureaucrats Endure: Maintaining Patronage vs. Improving Performance 25 Intermediaries Retreat: The Weakness of Oversight and Organizational Atrophy 29 Elites Adapt: Over-Compliance and Gaming Strategies 32 Summary: Sustaining the Negative Equilibrium 35 Research Approach 36 Next Steps 40 References 42 2 Providing Goods: Health Mandates and Authoritarian Performance 49 Introduction 49 Personalistic Legitimacy: Plenteous Promises and Faulty Mandates 51 Decommodification of Medicines: Benevolent But Not Efficient 57 Substituting Imports: Far-Flung Changes with Few Benefits 61 Spending Priorities: Resources for Mega-Projects, Austerity for All 68 Benevolent President: Providing Particularized Goods 75 Conclusion 78 References 80 3 Managing Actors: Faulty Controls and Flawed Performance 87 Introduction 87 Faulty Controls: Patronage, Mandates, and Networks 89

Author

Vlad Kravtsov

Language

EN