A Political Economy of Russian Nature Conservation Policy: Why Scientists have Taken a Back Seat

David Ostergren and Peter Jacques

Global Environmental Politics, 2002, vol. 2, issue 4, 102-124

Abstract: During the Soviet era, Soviet scientists were well respected and often included in the policy-making process. Under the new set of post-Soviet circumstances, scientists remain influential but their favored position has decreased insofar as they now operate in an expanded pluralist context in which they must join or compete with emergent local, national and international NGOs and other actors for influence. In this article, we explain this change in terms of a shift from a centralized political economy to a liberal one. A liberal political economy has allowed various groups and institutions, and the public in general, to participate in environmental policy-making. This has diminished the influence of Russian scientists. Highlighting this diminishment, we demonstrate that policy-making under a liberal framework does not always result in greater environmental protection. The article explores the implications of this for Russia and, by extension, other parts of the newly liberalizing world. Copyright (c) 2002 Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Date: 2002
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