, 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 …

to examining the extent to which Russia – by far the largest, whether measured by geography, population, economy, or … House as surrogate measures of the extent of democracy over the past two decades, it suggests that with one notable … powerful state can deploy to influence a neighbor, the paper considers the extent to which, if at all, Russia may have made use …

. This Study attempts to provide a balanced view of the topic and suggests that since Russia has never been a democracy, its … for Russia, most existing studies assign a negative role to the economy-elites in the country's economic and political … development. The weakness of the middle class in Russia during the period under discussion in this study created a vacuum in the …