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Database PROEastE
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Example for a research project in the Data base PROEastE (Social
Science Research PROjects)
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Title
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At the nexus of state-society relations in Russia: conceptualising
institutional changes of local self-government |
| Persons |
staff: Gelman, Vladimir, Dr.;
Belokurova, Elena, Dr.; Ryzhenkov, Sergei, MA
project leader: Luchterhandt, Galina, Dr. |
| Contact |
project leader; phone:
(+49421) 2183257; email: luchterh@osteuropa.uni-bremen.de |
| Research
Institute |
European University at St. Petersburg, Faculty of
Political Science and Sociology (ul. Furmanova 3, 191187 Sankt Petersburg,
Russian Federation); email: sociopol@eu.spb.ru;
URL: http://www.eu.spb.ru/socio/index.htm;
Institute for Humanities and Political Studies (POB 18, 111538 Moscow,
Russian Federation); email: sociopol@glasnet.ru;
URL: http://www.nns.ru/tsentr/igpi.html |
| Duration
Begin |
1999-10 |
| Duration
End |
2001-10 |
| Abstract |
The major issue of the
project is focused on the study of the autonomy of local government in
Russia's cities (regional capitals) in the wake of the reform of the local
government after 1993. Despite the very fact that 1993 the Constitution of
Russia proclaimed autonomy of local government from the state, practices
of the political development across Russia's provinces show a quite
diverse picture. Thus the understanding of causes and consequences of this
diversity is the major "puzzle" of the research. The analysis is
based on the neo-institutional perspective, compares and combined two
research approaches: The structural and procedural. Structural approach
takes into account objective constrains of the development of local
autonomy in Russia's cities while the procedural approach focuses
attention on interaction of federal, regional and local political and
economic actors during the period of the reform. The case selection
represents different outcomes of local reforms based on the " most
different system" method of the comparative case study. The
preliminary analysis will be ready by October 2000, final results - by
late 2001.
Investigated period: 1993 - 2001
Geographical coverage:
four case: cities of Pskov, Saratov, Perm and
Petrozavodsk (Russia) |
| Data
Collection |
open content analysis; open document analysis; participant and non-participant
observation; qualitative interview; secondary analysis of individual data
and secondary analysis of aggregate data; and comparative analysis.
Research design: comparative case-study. |
| Type
of Project |
funded research |
| Funding
Source |
INTAS project (No.: 97-31398); foundation |
| Keywords |
autonomy;
large city; municipal administration; organizational change; reform;
Russia; administration; corporative actor; USSR successor state;
post-socialist country |
| Information
Source |
IZ survey 2000 |
| Registration
Year |
2000 |
| Registration
No. |
20000476 |
| Date
of Release |
2000-12-07 |
© GESIS Service Agency Eastern Europe Berlin 2001, Database PROEastE
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