{"title":"A Survey of Democracy in Russia's Regions","authors":"Kelly M. McMann, N. Petrov","doi":"10.1080/10889388.2000.10641137","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10889388.2000.10641137","url":null,"abstract":"An American political scientist and a Russian geographer, specialists in postCommunist political reform and Russian regional politics, respectively, adopt a subnational approach to democratization, measuring democracy in a standard fashion across 57 regions of Russia. They rate levels of democracy in Russia's oblasts, krays, and federal cities based on the results of a survey they administered to experts on Russian provincial politics. The article presents the ranking of the regions, evaluates the survey as a means of measuring provincial democracy, and examines five possible explanations for subnational variation in democracy. Journal of Economic Literature, Classification Numbers: H11, H77, P16, P26. 3 figures, 4 tables, 79 references, 2 appendices.","PeriodicalId":85332,"journal":{"name":"Post-Soviet geography and economics","volume":"41 1","pages":"155 - 182"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10889388.2000.10641137","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59652757","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Planning for Change in Central St. Petersburg","authors":"J. Bater, J. Staples","doi":"10.1080/10889388.2000.10641134","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10889388.2000.10641134","url":null,"abstract":"Two Canadian scholars, the former a specialist on St. Petersburg's evolution and urban fabric, explore linkages between population change, housing availability, and business development in central-city St. Petersburg during the late 1990s. These phenomena are viewed within the context of the St. Petersburg Strategic Plan, adopted in late 1997 as a guide to the city's post-Soviet development, and in light of the findings of a sample survey of central St. Petersburg's citizens designed to elicit information on social class structure and quality-of-life concerns. Results of the latter are compared with those from a similar survey in central Moscow. Journal of Economic Literature, Classification Numbers: 131, R14, R21. 3 figures, 5 tables, 15 references.","PeriodicalId":85332,"journal":{"name":"Post-Soviet geography and economics","volume":"41 1","pages":"77 - 97"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10889388.2000.10641134","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59652672","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Offshore Mineral Development in the Russian Barents Sea","authors":"A. Moe, Anne-Kristin Jørgensen","doi":"10.1080/10889388.2000.10641135","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10889388.2000.10641135","url":null,"abstract":"Two Norwegian researchers examine the forces alternatively driving and hindering offshore hydrocarbon development in the Russian sector of the Barents Sea. The paper describes exploration activities beginning during the Soviet period and extending to the present, the status of the major development projects financed in part with foreign capital, and conflicting regional and central government interests involved in such development. Coverage includes the emergence of Rosshelf, an oil/gas conglomerate formed to facilitate defense conversion activities of major naval shipyards. Critical to analysis of the projects' potential is assessment of alternative gas supplies and energy development strategies. Journal of Economic Literature, Classification Numbers: O13, Q40, R10. 3 figures, 1 table, 63 references.","PeriodicalId":85332,"journal":{"name":"Post-Soviet geography and economics","volume":"41 1","pages":"133 - 98"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10889388.2000.10641135","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59652682","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Direct Inflation Targeting in Central Europe","authors":"Lucjan T. Orłowski","doi":"10.1080/10889388.2000.10641136","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10889388.2000.10641136","url":null,"abstract":"This paper discusses perceived benefits and disadvantages of direct inflation targeting for economies in transition in Central Europe. It examines the experience of net inflation targeting in the Czech Republic and of CPI forecast targeting regimes in Poland, providing specific suggestions for enhancing transparency of monetary policy. Inflation targeting is compared with exchange-rate pegging and is viewed as a superior solution for facilitating the monetary convergence of central European EU candidates to the inflation level prevailing in the eurozone. Other benefits of inflation targeting for central banks in transition economies are described as well. Journal of Economic Literature, Classification Numbers: E31, E52, P33. 5 figures, 2 tables, 22 references.","PeriodicalId":85332,"journal":{"name":"Post-Soviet geography and economics","volume":"41 1","pages":"134 - 154"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10889388.2000.10641136","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59652687","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Financing of Environmental Protection in Russia: The Role of Charges","authors":"S. Kjeldsen","doi":"10.1080/10889388.2000.10641132","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10889388.2000.10641132","url":null,"abstract":"A Danish political scientist, relying upon extensive field work and familiarity with national and regional-level legislation, examines the practice of assessing monetary charges against those negatively affecting the environment in the Russian Federation and surveys the system of ecological funds based on the revenues thus derived. Particular attention is devoted to constraints on the effectiveness of the funds, including nonpayments problems, inflationary pressures reducing real values of the charges, consolidation of funds into budgets, and delays in transfers among different levels of government. Discussion of trends at the national level is supplemented with detailed examples from Yaroslavl' Oblast. Journal of Economic Literature, Classification Numbers: H20, Q28, Q38. 3 tables, 28 references.","PeriodicalId":85332,"journal":{"name":"Post-Soviet geography and economics","volume":"41 1","pages":"48 - 62"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10889388.2000.10641132","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59653090","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Contingent Government Liabilities: Fiscal Threat to the Czech Republic?","authors":"H. Brixi","doi":"10.1080/10889388.2000.10641133","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10889388.2000.10641133","url":null,"abstract":"A World Bank specialist on the effects of contingent liabilities on the fiscal position of transition and emerging-market economies examines the current situation in the Czech Republic, where the deliberate use of guarantees and other forms of off-budget support by the government has led to the accumulation of hidden liabilities. The paper first discusses how to identify, measure, and classify contingent liabilities and then outlines conceptual and measurement issues involved in assessing their impacts. The paper projects potential nearterm claims on budget resources stemming from defaults by borrowers covered by extant state guarantees. Journal of Economic Literature, Classification Numbers: E62, H50, H63. 1 figure, 10 tables, 13 references, appendix.","PeriodicalId":85332,"journal":{"name":"Post-Soviet geography and economics","volume":"41 1","pages":"63 - 76"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10889388.2000.10641133","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59653097","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Regional Patterns of Political Preference in Russia: The December 1999 Duma Elections","authors":"R. Clem, P. Craumer","doi":"10.1080/10889388.2000.10641130","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10889388.2000.10641130","url":null,"abstract":"Two specialists on the electoral geography of post-Soviet Russia analyze the spatial voting patterns of the December 1999 national parliamentary election (national party-list vote) in that country. Among the issues investigated are spatial variations in voter turnout, the geographic concentration/dispersion of voter support by party, and correlations between that support and selected demographic and socioeconomic variables. Particular attention is focused on the extent to which voting patterns mirrored those of previous electoral contests and were affected by the appearance of such new electoral coalitions as Fatherland–All Russia, Unity, and the Union of Right Forces. Journal of Economic Literature, Classification Numbers: H10, O50, Z10. 13 figures, 5 tables, 27 references.","PeriodicalId":85332,"journal":{"name":"Post-Soviet geography and economics","volume":"41 1","pages":"1 - 29"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10889388.2000.10641130","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59652497","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Stabilization Policy in Post-Soviet Armenia","authors":"D. Bartlett","doi":"10.1080/10889388.2000.10641131","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10889388.2000.10641131","url":null,"abstract":"The paper provides an assessment of Armenian stabilization policy in the 1990s, drawing upon time series and comparative statistics. The analysis focuses on: (1) political and economic circumstances that led Armenia to launch an orthodox stabilization program in the mid-1990s; (2) policy mechanisms Armenian authorities used to execute that program; and (3) the impact of stabilization policy on key macroeconomic performance indicators (growth, inflation, currency stability, personal income, investment, and balance of payments). The paper evaluates Armenia's economic performance relative to that of other Soviet successor states and implications of its stabilization strategy for the country's developmental trajectory. Journal of Economic Literature, Classification Numbers: O10, O40, O50. 6 tables, 33 references.","PeriodicalId":85332,"journal":{"name":"Post-Soviet geography and economics","volume":"41 1","pages":"30 - 47"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10889388.2000.10641131","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59652508","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Foreign Investment in Kazakhstan's Minerals Industries","authors":"A. E. Peck","doi":"10.1080/10889388.1999.10641126","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10889388.1999.10641126","url":null,"abstract":"An American commodity market specialist assesses the post-Soviet history of foreign investment in the minerals industries of Kazakhstan, drawing upon a variety of sources, including in-country interviews and contacts, industry and U.S. government publications, Internet postings, and Kazakh newspapers. She focuses on the means by which foreign firms obtained shares in Kazakh enterprises, the effects to date of foreign ownership on enterprise performance and activities, obstacles confronting foreign firms seeking to invest in Kazakhstan?s minerals industries, and shifts in opinion in Kazakhstan regarding the efficacy of such investments in promoting economic development.","PeriodicalId":85332,"journal":{"name":"Post-Soviet geography and economics","volume":"40 1","pages":"471-518"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10889388.1999.10641126","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59652398","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Transition in Regional Capitals along the Volga","authors":"Martha de Melo, G. Ofer, Plamen Yossifov","doi":"10.1080/10889388.1999.10641128","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10889388.1999.10641128","url":null,"abstract":"A group of researchers led by two prominent Western economists examines the experience of 10 regional capitals along the Volga River following the disintegration of the USSR, during a period of significant transition in the municipal (government) and economic functions exercised by Russian cities. The authors survey general similarities in these cities? fiscal functions, privatization, and economic development, as well as place-specific differ-ences (e.g., unique resources, strong/weak government) contributing to divergence of eco-nomic conditions among them during the post-Soviet period. The study combines official data on economic performance, employment, and municipal budgets with fieldwork-based case studies, interviews, and survey research.","PeriodicalId":85332,"journal":{"name":"Post-Soviet geography and economics","volume":"40 1","pages":"553-616"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1999-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10889388.1999.10641128","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59652445","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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