scholarly journals The revival of property rights in post-Soviet Russia and the problems of their further development

2021 ◽  
pp. 16-26
Author(s):  
M. Semyakin
Keyword(s):  
Property Rights ◽  
Soviet Russia ◽  
Further Development

Russia's Unknown Agriculture

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith Pallot ◽  
Tat'yana Nefedova
Keyword(s):  
Food Production ◽  
Animal Husbandry ◽  
Rural Districts ◽  
Local Officials ◽  
Large Farm ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Soviet Russia ◽  
Livestock Products ◽  
The Right ◽  
Further Development

Basing their findings on four years of research during which they studied rural districts drawn from a variety of contrasting regions of European Russia, the authors discuss the place of rural households in Russia's agri-food production system. They show that far from being solely concerned with 'survival' household plots in contemporary Russia are increasingly used to produce crops and livestock products for the market. In the book they describe the rich variety of forms that small and independent farming takes today from highly localised clusters of cucumber or tomato producers to specialization in crop or animal husbandry at a higher spatial scale or associated with particular ethnic groups. The authors systematically examine the influence on past and present practices of distance and the environment, the state of the large farm sector, local customs, and ethnicity on what households produce and how they produce it often using case studies of people they have met (plot holders, farmers, local officials) to illustrate their point. They criticise the tendency of the household production to be treated as the agricultural 'Other' in post-Soviet Russia and argue with the right incentives it has the potential for further development.

The State, Informal Networks, and Financial Market Regulation in Post-Soviet Russia, 1990–2008

2015 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ilja Viktorov
Keyword(s):  
Financial Markets ◽  
Institutional Development ◽  
State Regulation ◽  
Market Regulation ◽  
Informal Networks ◽  
Financial Market Regulation ◽  
Russian State ◽  
Regulation Policy ◽  
Soviet Russia ◽  
Further Development

The article examines how informal networks inside the Russian state influenced the formation and further development of the country’s financial markets during the 1990s and 2000s. The main argument is that the activities of these networks made it difficult to implement any coherent state regulation policy in the field. At the same time, rivalry between competing informal networks and different organizations contributed to institutional development and some improvements. The result was a dualist institutional structure of the Russian speculative financial markets that reproduced itself throughout the period in question. The study is based on in-depth interviews conducted at Moscow-based financial institutions.

Introduction

Taxation ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Martin O’Neill ◽  
Shepley Orr
Keyword(s):  
Political Philosophy ◽  
Property Rights ◽  
Political Psychology ◽  
Tax Policy ◽  
Global Justice ◽  
Focal Point ◽  
Public Justification ◽  
Theory Of Justice ◽  
State Neutrality ◽  
Further Development

This chapter situates philosophical discussions of taxation with reference to the strongly contrasting approaches to tax, property, and justice embodied in Robert Nozick’s Anarchy, State, and Utopia, and John Rawls’s A Theory of Justice. The twelve chapters of the book are situated against the opposing philosophical poles provided by the libertarian and Rawlsian approaches to tax, and we describe in particular the further development of the Rawlsian view by Liam Murphy and Thomas Nagel in their book The Myth of Ownership: Taxes and Justice, which is a focal point for a number of the following chapters. We explain why and how taxation should be seen as central to political philosophy, given the importance of tax policy for both domestic and global justice, and given the close connections that taxation has to issues of property rights, democracy, public justification, state neutrality, stability, political psychology, and a range of other issues.

The evolution of property rights in Hellenistic Greece and the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (5) ◽  
pp. 827-843 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emmanouil M. L. Economou ◽  
Nicholas C. Kyriazis
Keyword(s):  
Property Rights ◽  
Causal Relationship ◽  
Great Influence ◽  
Ancient Greece ◽  
Economic Institutions ◽  
Hellenistic Period ◽  
State Laws ◽  
Hellenistic World ◽  
Hellenistic Greece ◽  
Further Development

AbstractIn the present paper we trace the development of property rights during the Hellenistic period (3rd–2nd centuriesbce), focusing on Athens, the democratic Hellenistic federations and the Ptolemaic Kingdom in Egypt. Property rights had been already well developed and protected by courts and state laws during the previous Classical period in ancient Greece, but we argue that they further evolved during the Hellenistic period due to the introduction of a series of new political and economic institutions. We found that there was a causal relationship between the evolution of property rights and the further development of economic institutions in Hellenistic Athens and the Hellenistic federations. We finally argue that the development and adoption of market-oriented economic institutions by the Ptolemaic Kingdom should be attributed to the great influence that these institutions had in the entire Hellenistic world, which resulted in their diffusion from the democratic states to kingdoms.

scholarly journals Demand for Law and the Security of Property Rights: The Case of Post-Soviet Russia

2017 ◽  
Vol 111 (2) ◽  
pp. 338-359 ◽  
Author(s):  
JORDAN GANS-MORSE
Keyword(s):  
Property Rights ◽  
Legal Institutions ◽  
Firm Level ◽  
State Institutions ◽  
Rights Protection ◽  
Property Rights Protection ◽  
Soviet Russia ◽  
Original Survey ◽  
Legal Strategies ◽  
Private Actors

Studies of property rights overwhelmingly focus on whether states expropriate or protect property, overlooking the crucial issue of whether private sector actors willusestate institutions. By contrast, I argue that the “supply” of formal legal institutions often fails to ensure firms will rely on the state for property rights protection. Instead, firms frequently avoid formal legal institutions and turn to illegal strategies based on violence or corruption. Whether firms adopt legal strategies depends on: (1) firm-level practices and beliefs that impede the use of law, (2) the effectiveness of illegal strategies, and (3) coordination problems resulting from firms’ expectations about each other’s strategies. Drawing on interviews with firms, lawyers, and private security agencies, as well as an original survey of Russian enterprises, I illustrate how “demand-side” factors led to a surprising increase in Russian firms’ reliance on formal legal institutions over the past two decades. The findings suggest that comprehensive understanding of property rights and the rule of law requires not only attention to state institutions’ effectiveness, but also to private actors’ strategies.

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