Russia’s civil service: professional or patrimonial? Executive-level officials in five federal ministries

Stephen Fortescue

Post-Soviet Affairs, 2020, vol. 36, issue 4, 365-388

Abstract: The issue of poor performance of the Russian federal bureaucracy is addressed by linking performance to type of official, through analysis of biographical data on deputy ministers and division (departament) heads in five federal ministries since 2012, supplemented by internet searches on behavior, particularly of a corrupt nature. Education, previous career experience, and recruitment, including its timing relative to superiors and subordinates, are analyzed, in order to determine whether officials behave primarily as members of patrimonial teams, as members of problem-solving organizations, as self-serving individuals, as the instruments of capture by commercial organizations, or as servants of bureaucratic agency interests. The data do not strongly support any one conclusion, but problem-solving officials have the strongest presence.

Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1080/1060586X.2020.1757314

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