Consumer Cooperatives and Liberal Idea In Russia

Rinat Menyashev ()
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Rinat Menyashev: Higher School of Economics (Moscow, Russia). Laboratory for Applied Studies of Institutions and Social Capital. Researcher;

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Abstract: A popular view in Russian studies argues that underdevelopment of Russian civil society is partly responsible for the failure of liberal idea in Russia. The fragmented society may see no alternative to massive government regulation, which is why support for a strong state is so high. If this logic is true, the di erences in civicness across urban societies should show up in di erent levels of liberal parties' support. The paper estimates this e ect. It was found that the transition from the most passive urban society to the most active in the sample increases the vote for liberal parties by a third. A unit increase in the number of consumer cooperatives per 1000 of citizens leads to a 3.5% drop in Communist Party results in 1995 and a 4% drop in United Russia votes in 2007. To demonstrate the causality we instrument the development of civil society by the number of years since the foundation of the rst university in each city

Keywords: social capital; political accountability; regulation; Russia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D70 R10 Z10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 24 pages
Date: 2011
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Published in WP BRP Series: Economics / EC, December 2011, pages 1-24

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