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IMMIGRATION: CHOOSING AN ADAPTATION STRATEGY
Yanovskiy, Konstantin; Shulgin, Sergey - Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy - 2015
Modern approaches to immigration policies in most developed countries make the problems of adaptation for new arrivals more severe. Protracted failure to adapt among immigrants (and even of their descendants) turns into recurrent problems vis-a-vis the law, and even extends into large scale...
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THE CROOKED MIRROR
Yanovskiy, Konstantin; Cherny, Dmitry - Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy - 2013
Can the absence of freedom of speech, a monopolized media market, and a politicized education create obstacles which will stand in the way of economic growth? The answer is an unambiguous Yes, and substantially. Partial, biased, or heteronomous mass media and an education turned into a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010726702
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The Democracy abridged: Factors in Restricting Political Competition
Yanovskiy, Konstantin; Zhavoronkov, Sergey; Zatcovecky, Ilia - Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy - 2013
“Improvements” in the mechanisms of democracy for making decisions about providing taxpayer-financed public goods can lead the economy in the same direction as authoritarianism. Such a by-product may be insignificant, but, even if so, a tradition of abridging democracy, similarly to an...
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US Aid for Israel – A Historical Overview
Yanovskiy, Konstantin - Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy - 2014
Historical data on US aid to Israel illustrates incentives of political leaders and special interests, first and foremost in Israel. As on the early stages of Alliance Israel military capabilities could provide valuable services to USA, undermining USSR influence in the Middle East, the current...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010747668
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Import of Institutions: the Regional Level
Yanovsky, Konstantin; Zhavoronkov, Sergey; Malysheva, Yulia - Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy - 2006
In the frame of the present research we considered a hypothesis on the existence of a trend to a widespreading of standards and practices which expand the horizon of the regional authorities' discretion and possibilities for their discretionary regulation, due to the federal authorities'...
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Closed Democracy Institutions: an Attempt of Contrastive Analysis
Mau, Vladimir; Yanovskiy, Konstantin; Vakhromeev, O. - Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy - 2007
This research is devoted to political and economic aspects of closed democracy institutions afoot. The book describes basic approaches to contrastive analysis in this field, typical problems that cause deviations in democratic institutional system’s development and major conditions and ways to...
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Democracy: a Conflict Extinguisher or a Fuel for Terror?
Yanovsky, Konstantin; Zhavoronkov, Sergey; Zaycovetsky, Ilia - Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy - 2014
Today’s exaggerated, deferent focus on democracy (the ability of voters by means of elections to change the government … holding free elections. The present article studies two instances when attempts were made to entrench free elections in the … conflict free elections may improve the position of the violence perpetrators – the roving bandits – at the cost of worsening …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010791352
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THE ABSENT STATE: FAILURES OF THE JUDICIAL SYSTEM, DEPENDENT AND CORRUPT COURTS, POLICE AND SECURITY SERVICES
Yanovsky, Konstanin; Zhavoronkov, Sergey; Mau, Vladimir - Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy - 2013
In this chapter we are addressing the numerous cases of government failures in countries with transit economies and weak democratic traditions when the state is called upon to provide “pure public goods” (defense, security, and justice). In other words, the subject matter of this chapter...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010678227
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The First Intifada, the Oslo Accords, and the Escalation of Terror: Causalities Revisited
Yanovskiy, Konstantin; Zatcovetsky, Ilia; Rotenberg, Vadim - Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy - 2014
The analysis of events of the First Intifada focused on the question of how well founded the decisions made at the time were to introduce radical changes in the terror-fighting strategy. Most sources treat the process at Oslo as an outgrowth of Israel’s inability to suppress the Arab riots. We...
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Institutional Constraints on Modern Economic Growth
Yanovskiy, Konstantin; Zhavoronkov, Sergey; … - Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy - 2015
How to import modern Western Institutions to suppress economic growth in underdeveloped countries? Russian experience and some warnings for newcoming reformers The monograph «Institutional Constraints on Modern Economic Growth" deals with the most dangerous obstacles standing in the way of long...
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