Defending business interests in Russia: collective action and social investments as bargaining chips

IF 2.2 3区经济学 Q2 ECONOMICS

Post-Communist Economies Pub Date : 2022-08-17 DOI:10.1080/14631377.2022.2104505

Stanislav Klimovich, Sabine Kropp, U. Pape

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ABSTRACT The collective organization of business interests in Russia is commonly considered weak. In some cases, however, business associations have succeeded in representing interests vis-à-vis the state. This article analyses an illustrative case of state–business negotiations regarding an extra profit tax for several chemical and metallurgical companies, proposed by the presidential administration in August 2018. Based on a case study involving media and interview data, the study examines the role of collective action under the auspices of the ‘Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs’ (RUIE) in defending business interests. It identifies the necessary conditions under which collective action was effective in this specific case, and critically discusses the possible contingency of the given constellation in light of inherently asymmetrical relations between state and business actors. Furthermore, the article develops an analytical framework with which business associations and their lobbying activities under authoritarian capitalism can be analysed beyond the Russian case.

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捍卫俄罗斯的商业利益:集体行动和社会投资作为谈判筹码

摘要俄罗斯商业利益的集体组织通常被认为是软弱的。然而，在某些情况下，商业协会成功地代表了国家的利益。本文分析了2018年8月总统政府提出的关于为几家化工和冶金公司征收额外利润税的州与企业谈判的一个例证。基于一项涉及媒体和采访数据的案例研究，该研究考察了在“俄罗斯实业家和企业家联盟”（RUIE）主持下的集体行动在捍卫商业利益方面的作用。它确定了在这种特定情况下集体行动有效的必要条件，并根据国家和商业行为者之间固有的不对称关系，批判性地讨论了特定群体的可能偶然性。此外，本文还建立了一个分析框架，可以在俄罗斯的案例之外分析威权资本主义下的商业协会及其游说活动。

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期刊介绍： Post-Communist Economies publishes key research and policy articles in the analysis of post-communist economies. The basic transformation in the past two decades through stabilisation, liberalisation and privatisation has been completed in virtually all of the former communist countries, but despite the dramatic changes that have taken place, the post-communist economies still form a clearly identifiable group, distinguished by the impact of the years of communist rule. Post-communist economies still present distinctive problems that make them a particular focus of research.