The paper looks into convergence of Russian institutions with those of other democratic, free-market-oriented states …

restructuring, ownership,competition, budget constraints and, particularly, institutions in Russian industry, covering theperiod … assessment of formal andinformal institutions respectively, and largely the same ruling networks as before the start of … budget constraints do not.The substitution, to some extent, of informal for formal institutions may have prevented even …

economies (or, in the case of China, its continued rise), the core institutions of communist rule and their evolution, and other …