Results 111 to 120 of about 251,538 (329)

Patterns of preservation, restructuring and survival: science and technology policy in Russia in the post Soviet era

, 2002
This paper analyses the role of S&T policy in the adjustment and restructuring of the Russian S&T system in the post-Soviet period. The principal argument is that the adjustment of the S&T system in Russia has been evolving between the 'preservation of S&
Radošević, S.
core  

GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE POST-SOVIET SPACE POLITICAL REGIMES AND FEATURES OF THEIR FORMATION

Вісник Харківського національного університету імені В. Н. Каразіна: Серія "Питання політології"
The main characteristics and features of the political regimes of the post-Soviet Baltic states, Ukraine, Russia and Georgia are considered and determined in the context of their transformation after the collapse of the USSR.
Vladyslav Koshelnyk
doaj   +1 more source

AGRICULTURE IN A SOCIALIST CITY: Towards an Alter‐Urban Political Ecology

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Urban political ecology has developed as a critique of capitalist urbanization. This article develops the concept of alter‐urban political ecology to define urban environments emerging not from capitalist urbanization but from efforts to transform it. Drawing on archival research and ethnographic fieldwork in five urban farms in socialist Cuba,
Gustav Cederlöf
wiley   +1 more source

Different paths of the second transition in the post-Soviet world: a political-economic analysis

The first generation of economic reforms in the post-Soviet countries mostly resulted in formation of sustainable inefficient institutional equilibria, what may be described as the transition from “plan” to “clan”.
Libman, Alexander
core   +1 more source

Would a Second Transition Stage Prolong the Initial Period of Post-socialist Economic Transformation into Market Capitalism? [PDF]

The article attempts to define the relevant yardsticks that can be used to delineate the end of the transition process or, alternatively, a second stage in the post-socialist economic transformation into market capitalism.
Wladimir Andreff
core  

Syndrome of populism and the evolution of post-Soviet regimes

Frontiers in Political Science
The juxtaposition of “us” the people vs. “them” the elites and the demonization of outsiders have been the recurring themes across the post-Soviet space, from opposition party programs to the political rhetoric of chief executives.
Dinissa Duvanova
doaj   +1 more source

THE VIOLENCE OF FULL COST RECOVERY: Financing Water Infrastructure, and the History and Future of Perpetual Crisis in Mombasa

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Foregrounding the role of finance, this article examines the historical production and future trajectory of the urban water crisis in Mombasa. Drawing on archival research and contemporary fieldwork, it traces how principles of full cost recovery—institutionalized during the colonial period and later reworked through postcolonial ...
Joe Williams
wiley   +1 more source

The social life of money for children

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
Abstract Inspired by Nigel Dodd's The Social Life of Money, this article proposes an analysis of entangled economic lives, that is, how meaning, structures and politics jointly shape the flow of monies within households. The past decades have marked a shift from “childrearing expenditures” to “parenting investments” that align with new visions of both ...
Nina Bandelj
wiley   +1 more source

Trade among the Post-Soviet states: evolution and policy issues [PDF]

This paper analyses the causes of the precipitous fall in trade among the twelve CIS countries since 1990; points out the implications for industrial restructuring; and discusses the policy options for regional reintegration. The main finding is that the
Langhammer, Rolf J., Lücke, Matthias
core  

The Coloniality of Data: Police Databases and the Rationalization of Surveillance from Colonial Vietnam to the Modern Carceral State

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
wiley   +1 more source