TY  - BOOK
AU  - Duvanova,Dinissa
TI  - Thieves, opportunists, and autocrats: building regulatory states in Russia and Kazakhstan 
T2  - Oxford scholarship online
SN  - 9780197697801
AV  - HD3612.R83 D883 2023
U1  - 338.947 23
PY  - 2023///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Trade regulation
KW  - Russia (Federation)
KW  - Post-communism
KW  - Economic aspects
KW  - Political corruption
KW  - Kazakhstan
KW  - Industry
KW  - ukslc
KW  - Industry & industrial studies
KW  - thema
N1  - Also issued in print: 2023; Includes bibliographical references and index; Specialized
N2  - This text reconciles the conflicting evidence of simultaneous improvements in the governance of post-Soviet states and the unmistakable signs of growing predation and systemic corrpution. To better understand how corruption and statism can coincide with improved governance, Thieves, Opportunists, and Autocrats focuses on the varying ways in which legislatures and bureaucrats have drafted regulatory policy-the state's key economic policy tool in capitalist socieites-and implemented it in Russia and Kazakhstan
UR  - https://go.openathens.net/redirector/lords.parliament.uk?url=https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197697764.001.0001
ER  -