The paper is devoted to the problems of electronic voting and possibilities of its implementation in Russian political system. The term "electronic voting" (e-voting) was created in the 1960s, when voting using paper ballots was spread throughout the world. The new concept implied that the...

The paper discusses how the Russian labor market has been evolving over two decades of the transition. It starts with tracing key labor market indicators such as employment, unemployment, labor force participation, working hours, and real wages. Their dynamics indicate that the labor market...

Why are some lobby groups less benign in their external effects than others? Nearly three decades ago, Mancur Olson (1982) proposed that less-encompassing lobby groups with their constituents collectively representing a narrow range of sectors are more apt to seek the types of subsidies,...