Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/39662 
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
Frankfurt School - Working Paper Series No. 148
Publisher: 
Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, Frankfurt a. M.
Abstract: 
The paper discusses the relative importance of the 'real' political actions versus the changes of symbolic nature in the bargaining over devolution, studying the case of personnel decentralization in security agencies in Russia in 2000-2007. While in the 1990s under Boris Yeltsin regional branches of federal ministries in Russia were mostly captured by regional governors, allowing them to pass acts directly contradicting federal law, in 2000s the administration of Vladimir Putin gradually replaced the heads of regional branches by new bureaucrats, supposedly without any connections to the region. The results differ for different security agencies; however, the paper finds, surprisingly, that in several cases the appointment decisions were robustly influenced rather by symbolic gestures made by regional governments in the earlier bargaining process than by the actual devolution policies of the regions.
Subjects: 
Devolution
bargaining
transition economies
JEL: 
D78
H77
P26
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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