The monetisation of<i>l'goty</i>: Changing patterns of welfare politics and provision in Russia

Wengle, Susanne A.; Rasell, Michael

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“…The Putin regime backtracked on the monetisation of benefits in 2005, largely in response to public protest (Wengle & Rasell 2008). Following the 2008-2009 global financial crisis, China increased its investments in education and training for migrant workers and in affordable housing (De Haan 2010, pp.…”

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Predictors of Support for State Social Welfare Provision in Russia and China

Munro

2017

Europe-Asia Studies

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Predictors of Support for State Social Welfare Provision in Russia and China

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2017

Europe-Asia Studies

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“…Vladimir Putin's time as President is generally seen as 'something of a breakthrough in welfare state liberalization' due to the radical welfare proposals made by his early governments (Cook 2007: 145). However, actual changes have been more moderate than initially mooted (Cook 2007;Wengle and Rasell 2008). This means that it is inaccurate to describe the Russian welfare state as neoliberal, although recent reforms have certainly had a neoliberal flavor.…”

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Neoliberalism in the North: the transformation of social policy in Russia's northern periphery

Rasell

2009

Polar Geography

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Social policy is a vital dimension of well-being in the harsh conditions of the Russian Far North. This article examines how longstanding welfare provision in the region has been restructured within the context of nationwide social reforms under Vladimir Putin. It starts with an analysis of Soviet-era policies for northern inhabitants and their evolution during the socio-economic crisis of the 1990s. I then look at how recent changes to budgetary and federal relations in the country have affected the delivery of social assistance in the North. Ultimately, the neoliberal undertones exhibited in federal social policy may be inappropriate in the region, where markets and individuals cannot be expected to sustain well-being

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“…Even though this article is not concerned with the neoliberalization of Russian society per se, Russia can be said to exhibit many features consistent with the neoliberal ideology and the neoliberal governmentality common to advanced liberal regimes. The reforms of the social sphere demonstrate transition from structured dependency to policies premised on the primacy of individual choices handled responsibly, efficiently and cost effectively (Wengle and Rasell 2008;Hemment 2009). In higher education, too, the government has shifted its approach away from welfare toward the underlying neoliberal postulates, such as 'market mechanisms', 'consumer and market demands', 'cost reduction', 'per capita funding', 'capital' and many others.…”

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Elastic numbers: national examinations data as a technology of government

Piattoeva

2014

Journal of Education Policy

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This article is motivated by interest in the deployment of massive numerical information produced by national examinations in the practices of control and steering. It examines how data generated in the compulsory school graduation examination in the Russian Federation connect together different actors within the education system and beyond, and the nature of the relationships so formed. These questions take as their unit of analysis the relations and relationships created and/or re-ordered through numbers, and they unmask who utilizes the numerical data, and for what purpose. The article brings together two major arguments in the existing literature on quantification, and develops them further into a coherent research framework which is then applied to capture and interpret the circulation and application of the examinations data. The first argument suggests that governance by numbers, characteristic of contemporary regulation practices, relies on and promotes the parallel existence of soft and hard regimes of regulation. The second addresses the increasingly public nature of social statistics, that is, its circulation on both official and popular levels. The article illustrates that it is by means of analysing the overlappings and interdependencies between the soft and hard regimes, and the two levels of data entry, that we can best understand how numbers exercise power and how they become rooted and gain more power in the process.

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The monetisation ofl'goty: Changing patterns of welfare politics and provision in Russia

Cited by 60 publications

References 23 publications

Predictors of Support for State Social Welfare Provision in Russia and China

Predictors of Support for State Social Welfare Provision in Russia and China

Neoliberalism in the North: the transformation of social policy in Russia's northern periphery

Elastic numbers: national examinations data as a technology of government

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