Abstract
The paper uses the latest 2011 round of Business Environment
and Enterprise Performance Survey for the Russian
Federation—for the first time designed to be representative
of Russian regions—to take a closer look at regional-level
factors influencing the business environment in Russia and,
more specifically, conditions that favor the emergence of
symbiotic relations between regional authorities and
regional businesses. Considering the argued significance
of informal rules, norms and agreements for the regional
level business environment in Russia the paper uses proxy
variables such as tenure and origin of regional governors
to identify how these rules are being institutionalized. The
findings reveal that, at least in case of Russia, juxtaposing
the state and business actors as separate and opposed to
each other may overstate the distinction between these two
groups of actors and understate the fact that many localities
in Russia have witnessed the emergence of mutually
beneficial state-business arrangements. Defining whether
these arrangements are beneficial or harmful to regional
development is beyond the scope of this exploratory paper.
and Enterprise Performance Survey for the Russian
Federation—for the first time designed to be representative
of Russian regions—to take a closer look at regional-level
factors influencing the business environment in Russia and,
more specifically, conditions that favor the emergence of
symbiotic relations between regional authorities and
regional businesses. Considering the argued significance
of informal rules, norms and agreements for the regional
level business environment in Russia the paper uses proxy
variables such as tenure and origin of regional governors
to identify how these rules are being institutionalized. The
findings reveal that, at least in case of Russia, juxtaposing
the state and business actors as separate and opposed to
each other may overstate the distinction between these two
groups of actors and understate the fact that many localities
in Russia have witnessed the emergence of mutually
beneficial state-business arrangements. Defining whether
these arrangements are beneficial or harmful to regional
development is beyond the scope of this exploratory paper.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Place of Publication | Washington, DC |
| Publisher | World Bank Group |
| Pages | 1-44 |
| Number of pages | 44 |
| Volume | 1 |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Sept 2014 |
Publication series
| Name | World Bank Policy Research Working Paper |
|---|---|
| Publisher | The World Bank Group |
| No. | WPS7038 |
| Volume | 1 |
Keywords
- state-business relations
- informal institutions
- russia
- political economy
- subnational politics