Protest and the Politics of Blame: The Russian Response to Unpaid Wages (Interests, Identities & Institutions in Comparative Politics) - Hardcover

Javeline, Debra

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0472113062 ISBN 13: 9780472113064

Verlag: The University of Michigan Press, 2003

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Book by Javeline Debra Lynn

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The wage arrears crisis has been one of the biggest problems facing contemporary Russia. At its peak, it has involved some $10 billion worth of unpaid wages and has affected approximately 70 percent of the workforce. Yet public protest in the country has been rather limited. The relative passivity of most Russians in the face of such desperate circumstances is a puzzle for students of both collective action and Russian politics. In Protest and the Politics of Blame, Debra Javeline shows that to understand the Russian public's reaction to wage delays, one must examine the ease or difficulty of attributing blame for the crisis. Previous studies have tried to explain the Russian response to economic hardship by focusing on the economic, organizational, psychological, cultural, and other obstacles that prevent Russians from acting collectively. Challenging the conventional wisdom by testing these alternative explanations with data from an original nationwide survey, Javeline finds that many of the alternative explanations come up short. Instead, she focuses on the need to specify blame among the dizzying number of culprits and potential problem solvers in the crisis, including Russia's central authorities, local authorities, and enterprise managers. Javeline shows that understanding causal relationships drives human behavior and that specificity in blame attribution for a problem influences whether people address that problem through protest. Debra Javeline is Assistant Professor of Political Science, Rice University.

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Explains the absence of wide-scale protest over unpaid wages in Russia

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• Verlag: The University of Michigan Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0472113062
• ISBN 13: 9780472113064
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 312