| Publication |
2011.
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| Summary/Abstract |
THE EMERGENCE OF LOCAL REGIMES,1
OR RELATIVELY stable patterns of subnational
governance, became an important logical consequence of the
turbulent political and economic changes in Russia's regions and cities during
the periods of the 1990s and the 2000s. We posit that these developments could be
analysed within the theoretical framework of 'urban regimes', which have been
conducted in studies of American and West European urban politics and
governance over the two last decades (Mossberger & Stoker 2001; Ledyaev
2008). Despite the major differences which exist between local regimes in
contemporary Russia and in the West, and their highly divergent political and
institutional environments, the placement of Russian local regimes within a
theoretical and comparative perspective opens new horizons for their analysis. It
also provides us with a better understanding of their general trends as well as some
of their peculiarities
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