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Attitudes, poverty and agency in Russia and Ukraine
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (refereegranskat)abstract
- One of the main ideas behind this book was to trace continuities from the Soviet time to post-Soviet Russia. There are many similarities between Russia and Ukraine, indicating such a continuation. Russia and Ukraine had a lot in common in terms of culture, language and history, partly also because of their common origin. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, however, the two independent countries chose different routes of development. This makes it possible to distinguish between the effects of politics/reforms on the one hand, and the impacts from the Soviet system on the other. After some more or less chaotic development paths in the 1990s, showing clear differences between the two countries, and before the contemporary conflict broke out in Eastern Ukraine (2013), they had once again more similarities in terms of political leadership and policies in general.The chapters in this book focus on Ukraine and on two regions in Russia: Nizhny Novgorod and Archangelsk. Contributors look at attitudes towards poverty and poor people; strategies of the poor; and policies against poverty. This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe.
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- Engstrand, Åsa-Karin, 1971-, et al.
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Collaboration for local economic development : business networks, politics and universities in two Swedish cities
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Ingår i: European Planning Studies. - London : Informa UK Limited. - 0965-4313 .- 1469-5944. ; 16:4, s. 487-505
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- In this article we want to show how conceptions about collaboration for local eocnomic development in Sweden are constructed on national and local levels. We also show how these conceptions have been realized in two different company networks; in the city of Östersund (“Odenskog företagsstaden”) and in the city of Karlskrona (“Telecom City”). In politics and research, local collaboration or cluster formation are viewed as important tools and levers for local economic development. However, we argue that the local labour markets and unemployment rates in our case studies do not differ significantly, despite very different strategies for collaboration. Therefore, we suspect that the political focus on collaboration is a way of legitimizing the change in regional policy rather than a delegation of real power to the local level. If this continues, we fear that the current regional policy is reduced to a discourse of popular concepts rather than a real instrument for local economic development.
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- Khmelnitskaya, Marina, et al.
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Flexible Authoritarian Governance in Russia : The Politics of Ideas on Family Policy
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Ingår i: Demokratizatsiya. - : Johns Hopkins University Press. - 1074-6846 .- 1940-4603. ; 31:3, s. 335-362
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- This article examines governance in Russia using policy ideas as an analytical lens and the case of family policy. Following the definition of the ideational process as a "discourse," Russian governance is viewed as three discursive layers: the president, ministerial bureaucracy, and regional and local levels. This system—represented in our original "nested model of discoursive governance"—involves: intensive communicative discourse from the president as he seeks to legitimize policy in the eyes of the public and provide signals to officials; a vigorous coordinative discourse at the middle level, where officials and experts negotiate their ideas; and a local discourse in which political communication and technical coordination coexist and involve (besides officials and experts) members of the public through the "collaborative" and "protest-induced" routes. The study reveals the mechanism of flexible governance, which is associated with the partial accommodation of different ideational positions.
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Post-Soviet Women : New Challenges and Ways to Empowerment
- 2023
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This volume explores how different post-Soviet countries have reinterpreted and diverged from the Soviet gender roles and values. It synthesizes results from multiple empirical studies that attend to increasingly conservative features of political governance in the region, particularly the authoritarian regime in Russia. The authors consider diverse enactments of ideologies, policies and practices of gender equality and women’s rights in crucial areas, such as legislative institutions, media, and social activism. The volume contributes to understanding post-Soviet societal dynamics relevant to United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 5, which emphasizes gender equality as part of fundamental human rights.
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