TY  - BOOK
AU  - Remington,Thomas F.
TI  - The politics of inequality in Russia
SN  - 9781139078986
AV  - HC340.12.Z9 I5162 2011eb
U1  - 339.2/20947 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Cambridge [England], New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Income
KW  - Russia (Federation)
KW  - Income distribution
KW  - Poverty
KW  - Wealth
KW  - Equality
KW  - Democracy
KW  - Revenu
KW  - Russie
KW  - Répartition
KW  - Pauvreté
KW  - Richesse
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Economic Conditions
KW  - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
KW  - Economics
KW  - Macroeconomics
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; The political sources of income inequality in Russia -- Employment, earnings, and welfare in the Russian transition -- Regime diversity in the Russian regions -- Democracy and inequality in the Russian regions -- Regional regimes and the labor market: evidence from the NOBUS survey -- Helping hands or grabbing hands? Government business relations in the regions -- Accounting for regime differences -- After the crash
N2  - "This book investigates the relationship between the character of political regimes in Russia's subnational regions and the structure of earnings and income. Based on extensive data from Russian official sources and surveys conducted by the World Bank, the book shows that income inequality is higher in more pluralistic regions. It argues that the relationship between firms and government differs between more democratic and more authoritarian regional regimes. In more democratic regions, business firms and government have more cooperative relations, restraining the power of government over business and encouraging business to invest more, pay more, and report more of their wages. Average wages are higher in more democratic regions and poverty is lower, but wage and income inequality are also higher. The book argues that the rising inequality in postcommunist Russia reflects the inability of a weak state to carry out a redistributive social policy"--
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