Property Rights in Post-Soviet Russia - Violence, Corruption, and the Demand for Law

This book looks at how top-down efforts to strengthen property rights are unlikely to succeed without demand for law from private firms.

List of contents

1. Violence, corruption, and demand for law; 2. Institutional supply and demand; 3. The evolution of firm strategies; 4. The role of state legal capacity; 5. Demand-side barriers to the use of legal strategies; 6. The effectiveness of illegal strategies; 7. Variation in strategies across firms; 8. Firms, states, and the rule of law in comparative perspective.

About the author

Jordan Gans-Morse is an assistant professor of political science at Northwestern University, Illinois. His articles have appeared in the American Journal of Political Science, American Political Science Review, Comparative Political Studies, Post-Soviet Affairs, Problems of Post-Communism, and Studies in International Comparative Development. His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, and the American Bar Foundation. He holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, Berkeley.

Summary

Rule of law depends not just on the state's creation of effective legal institutions, but also on firms' and individuals' willingness to use law - rather than violence or corruption - to resolve disputes. Yet as this book demonstrates in its scrutiny of post-Soviet Russia, the crucial importance of private sector 'demand' for law is often overlooked.

Product details

• Authors: Jordan Gans-Morse, Jordan (Northwestern University Gans-Morse, Gans-Morse Jordan
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2018
• EAN: 9781316607848
• ISBN: 978-1-316-60784-8
• No. of pages: 310
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Civil law, civil procedural law; Russia, LAW / General, Corporate Governance, Commercial law, Property law: general, Law & society, Law and society, sociology of law, property law