Autocracy and health governance in Russia / Vlad Kravtsov.
2022
RA513
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Title
Autocracy and health governance in Russia / Vlad Kravtsov.
Author
Kravtsov, Vlad, author.
ISBN
9783031057892 (electronic bk.)
3031057899 (electronic bk.)
9783031057885
3031057880
3031057899 (electronic bk.)
9783031057885
3031057880
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations (black and white).
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10.1007/978-3-031-05789-2 doi
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RA513
Dewey Decimal Classification
353.60947
Summary
The book is the first attempt to investigate how and to what extent authoritarian (personalistic) regimes fail to provide fundamental goods and services. For two decades, Russian authorities spent much effort and money to improve health administration, but most success stories are borderline fake. The failure is by design; because personalistic regimes rely on personalized exchanges and bargains instead of impersonal rules and permanent organizations, all actors put self-interest ahead of patients needs. It is a severe problem because authoritarian principals proclaim social betterment as their central goal -- and many Russians take such claims at face value -- but incentivize their agents to imitate progress and tolerate slipshod performance. The benefits of this investigation are three-fold. First, the book provides an analytical framework of bad governance rooted in the rational institutionalist tradition and connected to competence-control theory. Second, it gives a general readership interested in how Russia works a sense of the key political players mindset and the regime-induced constraints under which elites operate. Third, although the book investigates health governance exclusively, its analytical framework is portable to other issue areas and could be applied to explain how and why Russia evolved into an ineffective, coercive, and predatory state under Putins leadership. Vlad Kravtsov is Associate Professor of Political Science & Law at Spring Hill College, the US. .
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Personalistic regimes and the processes of governance
Chapter 2. Providing goods: health mandates and authoritarian performance
Chapter 3. Managing actors: faulty controls and flawed performance
Chapter 4. Constructing the oversight: organizational atrophy and particularized exchanges
Chapter 5. Securitizing the epidemic: ideological adaptations and illiberal meanings
Chapter 6. Conclusions, implications, and dashed hopes.
Chapter 2. Providing goods: health mandates and authoritarian performance
Chapter 3. Managing actors: faulty controls and flawed performance
Chapter 4. Constructing the oversight: organizational atrophy and particularized exchanges
Chapter 5. Securitizing the epidemic: ideological adaptations and illiberal meanings
Chapter 6. Conclusions, implications, and dashed hopes.