Post-Soviet Power - Wengle Susanne A.
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ENG Post-Soviet Power tells the story of the Russian electricity system and examines the politics of its transformation from a ministry to a market. Susanne A. Wengle shifts our focus away from what has been at the center of post-Soviet political economy - corruption and the lack of structural reforms - to draw attention to political struggles to establish a state with the ability to govern the economy. She highlights the importance of hands-on economic planning by authorities - post-Soviet developmentalism - and details the market mechanisms that have been created. This book argues that these…mehr

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ENG Post-Soviet Power tells the story of the Russian electricity system and examines the politics of its transformation from a ministry to a market. Susanne A. Wengle shifts our focus away from what has been at the center of post-Soviet political economy - corruption and the lack of structural reforms - to draw attention to political struggles to establish a state with the ability to govern the economy. She highlights the importance of hands-on economic planning by authorities - post-Soviet developmentalism - and details the market mechanisms that have been created. This book argues that these observations urge us to think of economies and political authority as mutually constitutive, in Russia and beyond. Whereas political science often thinks of market arrangements resulting from political institutions, Russia's marketization demonstrates that political status is also produced by the market arrangements that actors create. Taking this reflexivity seriously suggests a view of economies and markets as constructed and contingent entities. RUS Книга рассказывает историю российской энергосистемы и исследует политические закономерности ее перестройки с бюрократических рельсов на рыночные. Сюзан Венгле переводит внимание читателя с того, что обычно попадало в фокус постсоветской политэкономии - коррупции и недостаточности структурных реформ —
Autorenporträt
Susanne Wengle is NR Dreux Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame, with a Ph.D. from the from University of California Berkeley. Her research examines Russia's post-Soviet political and economic transformation and engages with questions how we study market creation in this context and beyond. She is the author of Post-Soviet Power: State-led Development and Russia's Marketization (Cambridge University Press, 2015), Black Earth, White Bread; a technopolitical history of Russian Agriculture and Food (University of Wisconsin Press) and the editor of Russian Politics Today: Stability and Fragility (Cambridge University Press), as well as numerous articles on the social, political and economic dynamics of the post-Soviet transformations.