Soviet Power and the Countryside

Policy Innovation and Institutional Decay

N. Melvin (Autor)

Online Resource

XVI, 279 Seiten

2003
Palgrave Macmillan UK (Hersteller)
978-0-230-59852-2 (ISBN)

Infos

Drawing upon extensive archival and other original sources, Soviet Power and the Countryside offers a new approach to understanding the political dynamics that led to the collapse of the Soviet order. A detailed analysis of the design, implementation and collapse of Soviet policy toward the countryside is used to explore the implications of a broadening of participation in the policy process from the 1960s. Neil J. Melvin argues that the new knowledge about rural society created as a result of this process provided the basis for a fundamental change in the nature of power relations in the Soviet order, leading to the decay and eventual collapse of policy making institutions.

Inhalt

List of Tables Preface and Acknowledgements A Note on Transliteration and Terms List of Abbreviations Glossary of Terms PART I: THE SETTING Introduction Political Change in the Soviet Union PART II: AGENDA SETTING IN SOVIET POLITICS The Establishment of Official Rural Policy Radical Urbanism Becomes Orthodoxy The Onset of Rural Transformation PART III: POLICY ACTORS, INSTITUTIONS AND IDEAS The Formation of the Policy Community: Rural Architects The Expansion of Participation: Geographers, Sociologists and Writers The Disintegration of Policy Making Capacity PART IV: POWER IN SOVIET POLITICS Power and Decay in the Soviet State Sources Consulted

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 4.11.2003
• Reihe/Serie: St Antony's Series
• Zusatzinfo: XVI, 279 p.
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Russian and Post-Soviet Politics
• ISBN-10: 0-230-59852-8 / 0230598528
• ISBN-13: 978-0-230-59852-2 / 9780230598522
• Zustand: Neuware