期刊全称 | Autocracy and Health Governance in Russia | 影响因子2023 | Vlad Kravtsov | 视频video | | 发行地址 | Links autocratic regimes’ foundational features to health governance’s underlying mechanisms in Russia.Attempts to investigate how and to what extent authoritarian regimes fail to provide health goods | 图书封面 |  | 影响因子 | .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 governanc | Pindex | Book 2022 |
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