Институциональные реформы и гражданская культура

Institutional Reforms and Civic Culture

Victor Polterovich
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Виктор Меерович Полтерович

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Abstract: The influence of civic culture is considered on the effective choice of the reform plan which is defined as a sequence of interim institutions that "connects" the initial institution with final, desirable for reformer. Accounting for prevailing values, characteristics of mass behavior and competencies under designing intermediate institutions contributes to the success of reform, whereas ignoring them leads to high costs and dysfunctions. In addition, interim institutions can influence the cultural shifts, causing further advancement or failure of reforms. The validity of these theses is demonstrated in the analysis of the privatization and democratization processes in various countries. The hypothesis is put forward and discussed that, in developing countries, one of the important causes of reform failures is a cultural gap between the elite of society and the mass of citizens.

Keywords: catching-up development; institutional trajectory; interim institution; trust; postmaterialism; social values; privatization; democratization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A13 B52 D02 O1 P11 P16 P5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016-05-31
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