- Introduction
- Objectives of This Book
- The Approach
- The Basic Argument
- Outline of the Book
- 1. Control and Collapse: Reformulating Traditional Approaches
- A Framework for Analyzing Institutional and Policy Change
- Power and Control in Soviet Institutions: “Traditional” Theories
- Summary
- 2. Control and Collapse: Neoinstitutional Approaches
- Neoinstitutional Approaches to Hierarchy
- Explaining Institutional Change
- Behavioral Theories: “What’s So Neo about Neoinstitutionalism?”
- Summary
- 3. Testing Theories of Institutional Change: The Soviet Youth Program
- A Strategy for Hypothesis Testing
- Comrades and Sons: Generational Conflict and Soviet Policy
- Summary
- 4. The Communist Youth League
- Background
- Institutional Dynamics within the Komsomol
- Crisis and Collapse of the All-Union Komsomol
- Summary
- 5. Job Assignments for University Graduates
- Background
- Institutional Dynamics of Raspredelenie
- The Collapse of the Job Assignments System
- Summary
- 6. Universal Military Service
- Background
- Institutional Dynamics of Conscription Policy
- Crisis and Breakdown of the Conscription System
- Summary
- 7. The Breakdown of Hierarchy: Comparative Perspectives
- Reviewing the Case Study Evidence
- Additional Manifestations of Soviet Institutional Breakdown
- Chinese Reforms: Successful Decentralization
- 8. Conclusions and Extensions: Control and Collapse in Hierarchies
- Hierarchical Control and Collapse in Non-Communist Environments
- After the Collapse: institutions in the Post-Communist States
- Appendix: Data Sources
- Notes
- Glossary and Abbreviations
- Index
RUSSIAN RESEARCH CENTER STUDIES
Russian Research Center Studies 89
Stealing the State
Control and Collapse in Soviet Institutions
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Publication Date: 01/07/1998
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