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Adapting the Repeat Player Concept to RussiaIn his seminal article, Galanter (1974) argued that repeat players (RPs) are particularly well equipped to use law and the legal system to their advantage. His analysis is based on the U.S. experience, both in terms of the nature of the parties and the institutional environment. This article examines whether Galanter's RP concept smoothly crosses borders, helping to decipher the law-related behavior of enterprises in the new Russian market economy. In doing so, the article offers contributions on two levels. First, it is a case study that examines whether theories and concepts developed in one political, institutional, and social Thanks are due to Alla V.In all these analyses, the results confound the predictions that would arise by transplanting Galanter's theories to Russia. Being an RRP does not give rise to the same sorts of behavioral patterns as Galanter found among RPs in the U.S. context. Stopping the analysis at this step, however, would obviously be discomfiting because it might leave the reader wondering what factors can explain law-related behavior in Russia and indeed whether our results on RPs reflect some extreme randomness in either the Russian environment or our data, so that no theories would work. Thus, the empirical analyses presented here go a step beyond the parameters of Galanter's original framework examining additional explanatory variables.For each of the three hypotheses-aggressiveness and innovativeness in interactions, playing for the rules, and intensity of litigation-we examine a series of additional explanatory variables. The choice of variables to examine is driven by common sense and the prevailing assumptions within the scholarly literature. For example, we investigate whether bigger and older enterprises enjoy a comparative advantage in legal matters; whether there is a regional...
