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The Russian Federative Relations, Regional Policy, and Deformed Economic Space
The paper considers how notions and criteria of federalism correlate with decentralization of powers and resources, as well as how quality of federative institutions correlates with regional policies. Our analysis of the recent regulatory documents concerning problems of the Russian federalism and regional policy shows that practical solutions proved to be inconsistent with the diagnosed regional problems. Moreover, decentralization of resources under these conditions will enhance the role the federal authorities play in making decisions rather than will bring higher effectiveness of the regional policies.
Klistorin V. I. klistorin@mail.ru
Keywords: federalism unitary state federalism regional policy unitary state decentralization of powers
Federate relations in the period of economic turbulence
The paper analyses the impact of institutions of federalism on the economic development in the crisis, and the effectiveness of anti-recessionary programs. We put forward the hypothesis that federations proved to be less sensitive to the negative impacts of a crisis. The fact that in Russia, the crisis had much more negative impacts than in other countries, could be explained by the nature of Russian institutional system and, especially, by deterioration of Russian institutions of federalism.
Klistorin V. I. klistorin@mail.ru
Keywords: federation unitary state crisis monopolization crisis stability
