The Ambivalence of Power in the Twenty-First Century Economy

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List of figures vii List of tables ix List of contributors xi Series Editors' Foreword xviii Acknowledgements xix Preface. Ambivalence: practices, patterns and particles of power xx Alena Ledeneva 1 Introduction 1 Zoya Kotelnikova and Vadim Radaev Part I. Interdependency of political power and economic governance: A macro perspective 2 Interrelation between economic freedom and democracy: The case of post-communist countries 14 Marek Dabrowski 3 The pitfalls of rent-seeking: Alternative mechanisms of resource rent collection in Russia and Venezuela 36 Alexei Pobedonostsev 4 Contradictions of centralization: Four models of interaction between Russian rural communities and government and agribusiness 58