Informal public-private partnership as an initiative from below: Rural cases

Неформальное государственно-частное партнерство как инициатива снизу: сельские кейсы

Fadeeva, Olga (Фадеева, Ольга) () and Nefedkin, Vladimir (Нефёдкин, Владимир) ()
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Fadeeva, Olga (Фадеева, Ольга): Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Nefedkin, Vladimir (Нефёдкин, Владимир): Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Russian Peasant Studies, 2020, vol. 5, 131-145

Abstract: Local self-government in Russia has seriously degraded in the last decades. The strengthening power vertical and the centralized budgetary policy minimized the ability of rural administrations to finance the construction of social infrastructure facilities. The existing mechanisms and practices of public-private and municipal-private partnerships aim at implementing large projects rather than at contributing to the rural development. The data from the 2018 field research show that the weakening of local self-government is partially restrained by the increased activity of rural residents. For instance, local entrepreneurs spend their money on building schools with the support of local authorities. Based on the regional and ethnic differences in the stories from the Tatar village in the Volga Region and the Russian village in Siberia, the authors identify some common features of projects from below and analyze both their reasons and motives of entrepreneurs in different regions. Such cases of public-private partnerships ‘not by the rules’ should not be considered charity: they have various motives hidden in the relations between the authorities, business and rural population, and they are a result of informal agreements, in which mutual obligations of the participants are not legally set but are demonstrative manifestations of the local identity and of the intention to keep the traditional order.

Keywords: self-government; public-private partnership; rural entrepreneurs; self- organization; Volga Region; Siberia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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