Performance incentives and economic growth: regional officials in Russia and China

Testosterone and Repression in Non‐Democracies: Evidence from a Sample of Russian Governors

“…If the governors are selected based on other characteristics of the region, which also influence the repressiveness of courts (the third problem listed above), we need to provide further evidence in favor of our argument. Luckily for us, there exists a very rich research on the appointments of regional governors in the regions of Russia (e.g., Reisinger and Moraski ; Reuter and Robertson ; Rochlitz ; Rochlitz et al ). Probably, the most important finding of this literature is that appointments of regional governors in Russia ignore the economic development of the regions.…”

“…also influence the repressiveness of courts (the third problem listed above), we need to provide further evidence in favor of our argument. Luckily for us, there exists a very rich research on the appointments of regional governors in the regions of Russia (e.g., Reisinger and Moraski 2012;Reuter and Robertson 2012;Rochlitz 2013;Rochlitz et al 2015).…”

Business-government cooperation in VET: a Russian experiment with dual education

“…Russian governors are promoted to higher positions only rarely. However, they can be removed by the president for poor performance (Rochlitz et al 2015;Reuter and Robertson 2012).…”

Toward the Comparative Analysis of Transitions from State Socialism: Structure, Agency and Contingency

“…Of course during transition the bureaucracy remains a functional necessity: the rubbish must be collected, roads built, taxes collected, budgets administered, and so much more. Decades after the collapse of the USSR, the Russian bureaucracy remains continuous enough with its Soviet past to permit comparison with its current Chinese counterpart (Rochlitz et al 2016). And while culture is a much more problematic arena for comparative political science, the absence of civil society under decades of Leninist polities that actively rejected the very notion of the autonomy of society from the state seems to have produced lasting effects on the way post-state socialist citizens think about politics, especially in terms of rights and participation.…”