Russia as a Network State: What Works in Russia When State Institutions Do Not?

Discusses the ambiguous nature of the state in Russia, focusing on elite networks and their role in policy processes. This book examines the paradoxical dualism of state institutions and ruling networks, providing answers as to why some decisions are not implemented, and why the state exists despite the systemic inefficiency of its institutions.

STEPHEN WHITE is Professor of International Politics and Senior Research Associate of the School of Central and East European Studies, University of Glasgow, UK OLGA KRYSHTANOVSKAYA is Director of the Institute for Applied Political Science and the Head of the Department for the Study of Hierarchical Elites, Sociology Institute at the Russian Academy of Sciences. ALENA LEDENEVA is Reader in Russian Politics and Society at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London, UK NIKOLAY PETROV is Scholar-in-Residence at Carnegie Moscow Centre, Russia PHILIP HANSON is a consultant on the Russian and Baltic economies for the Economist Intelligence Unit and Oxford Analytica, and an Associate Fellow of the Royal Institute of International Affairs Russia and Eurasia Programme. PAVEL BAEV is Senior Researcher in the International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO), Norway STEFANIE ORTMANN is Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Sussex, UK VADIM KONONENKO is Research Fellow at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs, Finland ARKADY MOSHES is Programme Director of the Russia in the Regional and Global Context Programme of the FIIA, Finland