- Author
- Title
- Authoritarian politics of ideas, interests and policy change
- Subtitle
- Finance and development in Putin's Russia
- Supervisors
- Award date
- 25 September 2019
- Number of pages
- 299
- Document type
- PhD thesis
- Faculty
- Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences (FMG)
- Institute
- Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR)
- Abstract
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The thesis employs theories of authoritarian legitimation as well as of ideational and policy change to explain a gradual change in economic ideas and policy in Putin‘s Russia (2000-2018). Using cases of the Stabilization Fund and of industrial policy, it shows how re-industrialization of the Russian economy that was unthinkable in the 1990s and early 2000s becomes doable in the second half of the 2000s and is realized on a grand scale in Putin‘s third term, 2012-2018. The thesis explains this ideational and policy change by pointing to an initial tension between political ideas serving to legitimate Putin‘s regime and liberal economic ideas promoted by technocrats in ministries and think-tanks. In the course of Putin’s rule national conservative elites supporting Putin‘s regime in principle grow increasingly dissatisfied with its economic rationale and enforce a change towards state-led development. The thesis formulates several theoretical claims concerning the relevance of ideology in the policy process, the sort of ideas that constitute an ideational approach to economic policy, the effectiveness of elite versus popular pressure for policy change, the role of crisis in ideational and policy change and the role of institutions in the policy process.
- Persistent Identifier
- https://hdl.handle.net/11245.1/b5c12546-ce19-4284-80e5-d09db154e369
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Thesis (complete)
Front matter
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Ideas, interests and the dynamics of economic policy in authoritarian regimes
Chapter 3: Ideational and institutional legacies of the “tumultuous 1990s” in Russian politics and economy
Chapter 4: Ideational construction of Putin's rule and economic policy in his first term
Chapter 5: Ideas, interests and dynamics of economic policy in Putin's second term
Chapter 6: Medvedev's rule, the global financial crisis and liberal industrial policy
Chapter 7: Putin's conservative backlash, post-crisis and a nationalist-developmental turn in economic policy
Chapter 8: Conclusion
References; Summary; Samenvatting
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