Brokers and Bureaucrats

Building Market Institutions in Russia

By Timothy M. Frye

Subjects: Economics, System -- Development, Sociology, European Studies, Eastern European Studies, Political Science, Political Economy
Ebook : 9780472023486, 288 pages, 14 drawings, 38 tables, November 2009
Paperback : 9780472067138, 288 pages, 14 drawings, 39 tables, 6 x 9, April 2000
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Offers a new political explanation for the creation of market institutions as it investigates Russia's transition from a command economy

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Contents List of Figures          viiList of Tables          ixPreface          xiAcknowledgments          xiiiIntroduction: The Problem of Social Order          1 1. Institutions and Social Order: Sociological and Economic Approaches          172. Self-Governance and Social Order: A More Political Approach          333. Benign Neglect: Self-Governance on Currency Futures Markets          564. The Meddlesome Leviathan: Self-Governance on the Commodities Markets          845. Toward a Politics of Social Order: Self-Governance on the Equities Market          1076. What Governs? Organizational Competition and the Weak Russian State          1437. State Policy and Self-Governance: The Political Roots of Social Order          1658. The Bear's Bear: Institutional Developments and the Crash of 1998          193 Conclusion: Social Order and Social Science          215Notes          223References          249Index          263

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A classic problem of social order prompts the central questions of this book: Why are some groups better able to govern themselves than others? Why do state actors sometimes delegate governing power to other bodies? How do different organizations including the state, the business community, and protection rackets come to govern different markets? Scholars have used both sociological and economic approaches to study these questions; here Timothy Frye argues for a different approach. He seeks to extend the theoretical and empirical scope of theories of self-governance beyond groups that exist in isolation from the state and suggests that social order is primarily a political problem.
Drawing on extensive interviews, surveys, and other sources, Frye addresses these question by studying five markets in contemporary Russia, including the currency futures, universal and specialized commodities, and equities markets. Using a model that depicts the effect of state policy on the prospects for self-governance, he tests theories of institutional performance and offers a political explanation for the creation of social capital, the formation of markets, and the source of legal institutions in the postcommunist world. In doing so, Frye makes a major contribution to the study of states and markets.
The book will be important reading for academic political scientists, economists (especially those who study the New Institutional Economics), legal scholars, sociologists, business-people, journalists, and students interested in transitions.
Timothy Frye is Assistant Professor of Political Science, The Ohio State University.

Timothy Frye is Assistant Professor of Political Science, The Ohio State University.

Winner: American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS) 2001 Edward A. Hewett Prize

- AAASS Edward A. Hewett Prize
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