Development of Professional Associations in Russia: A Research into Institutional Framework, Self-Regulation Activity, and Barriers to Professionalization

Alexandra Moskovskaya, Îleg Oberemko (), Victoria Silaeva (), Irina Popova (), Inna Nazarova (), Olga Peshkova () and Marina Chernysheva ()
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Îleg Oberemko: National Research University Higher School of Economics, Leading Research Fellow CSE
Victoria Silaeva: National Research University Higher School of Economics, Research Fellow CSE
Irina Popova: National Research University Higher School of Economics, Ph.D. Sociology, Leading Research Fellow CSE; Institute of Sociology Russian Academy of Sciences
Inna Nazarova: National Research University Higher School of Economics, Doctor of Economics
Olga Peshkova: National Research University Higher School of Economics, Ph.D. Economics
Marina Chernysheva: National Research University Higher School of Economics, Research Fellow CSE

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Abstract: Professional associations in Russia are to some extent novices in contemporary professional regulation. Only small part of them can play significant role in enforcement of professional control (representing professional community in front of other stakeholders, adopting professional standards, ensuring market closure, protecting of prevalence of professional ethics etc.). Partially that comes from the lack of experience of self-regulation that professions have in the Russian history and sharp invasion of the global market in the 1990-es, partially that follows tradition of state predominance in economy and society. During the last two decades a mass of organizations arose in Russia calling themselves professional associations, guilds, societies and unions. The task to understand who they are, whether they can and they ought to represent professional community and what are their ways of professional self-regulation became now a pressing practical problem and an interesting research task. The object of this research is mapping the field of variety of non-government organizations that claim institutional control as professional associations in order to clarify the following issues: - What are the main forms of professional associations by their qualitative characteristics - What are their actual means and feasible opportunities to achieve professional control in their field of expertise or at least influence it – What are the main limits of professional self-regulation they dispose and whether there are any alternative forms of professional regulation in certain professional areas

Keywords: professional association; professionalization; self-regulation; state; market-oriented professions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D71 Z13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 51 pages
Date: 2013
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Published in WP BRP Series: Sociology / SOC, November 2013, pages 1-51

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