to teleological schemes of the transition to democracy. The process of regime transition, regardless of the regime type … of Russia’s regions as case studies of regime transition, the paper aims at understanding scenarios of outcomes of … institutionalization of the new regime, it still remains fragile. Democracy is not emerging from regime transition by default. Only if …

, increasing level of democracy has negative consequences for regions with substantial resources. Finally, this paper studies the … conditional resource curse. -- subnational variation ; conditional resource curse ; democracy ; economic institutions ; transition …