NGOs and social policy-making in Russia's regions

Problems of Post-Communism

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 28-41

  Cook, Linda J ^a   Vinogradova, Elena ^b  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY HIGHER SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Russian Federation)

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EID: 33750403272     PISSN: 10758216     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2753/PPC1075-8216530503     Document Type: Review

References (49)

1. U.S. Agency for International Development. NGO Sustainability Index for Central and Eastern Europe and Eurasia, 2005 (Washington, DC, 2005) (www.usaid.gov/locations/europe_eurasia/dem_gov/ngoindex/2005/index.htm).
2. Lisa McIntosh Sundstrom, "Women's NGOs in Russia: Struggling from the Margins." Demokratizatsiya 10, no. 2 (spring 2002): 207-29.
3. U.S. Agency for International Development, NGO Sustainability Index for Central and Eastern Europe and Eurasia, 2003 (Washington, DC. 2003) (www.usaid.gov/locations/europe_eurasia/dem_gov/ngoindex/2003/index.htm).
4. "Federal'nii zakon Rossiiskoi Federatsii ot 10 Ianvaria 2006 g. N. 18-FZ 'O vnesenii izmenenii v nekotoryie zakonodatel'nye akty Rossiiskoi Federatsii'" (Federal Law of the Russian Federation of January 10, 2006. N18-FZ "On the Introduction of Amendments in a Number of Legislative Acts of the Russian Federation"), passed by State Duma, December 23, 2005; effective as of April 18, 2006; published January 17, 2006 at www.rg.ru/2006/01/17/nko-poryadok-dok.html.
5. Marc Morjé Howard, The Weakness of Civil Society in Post-Communist Europe (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002);
6. Vladimir Avdonin, "Davlenie sovetskikh traditsii na grazhdanskoe obshchstvo v regione. Sluchai Ryazanskoi oblasti" (The Pressure of Soviet Traditions on Civil Society in a Region: The Case of Ryazan Oblast), in Grazhdanksoe obshchestvo i politicheskie protsessy v regionakh (NGOs and Political Processes in Regions) (Moscow Carnegie Center, working papers, no. 3, 2005): 9-22 (www.carnegie.ru/ru/pubs/workpapers/WP-2005-03-www.pdf).
7. Alfred B. Evans, Jr., "Recent Assessments of Social Organizations in Russia," Demokratizatsiya 10, no. 3 (2002);
8. Alexander N. Domrin, "Ten Years Later: Society, 'Civil Society,' and the Russian State," Russian Review 62, no. 2 (April 2003): 193-211.
9. Marcia A. Weigle, "On the Road to Civic Forum: State and Society from Yeltsin to Putin," Demokratizatsiya 10, no. 2 (2002): 117-46;
10. USAID NGO Sustainability Index for Central and Eastern Europe and Eurasia, 2003; A. Auzan, "Obshchestvennii dogovor i grazhdanskoe obshchestvo" (Social Contract and Civil Society) (2005) (www.polit.ru/event/2005/10/13/auzan_print.html);
11. Elena Belokurova and Natalia Yargomskaya "Do i posle Grazhdanskogo foruma: Grazhdanskoe obshchestvo v regionakh Severo-Zapada" (Before and After Civil Forum: Civil Society in the Northwest Regions), in Grazhdanskoe obshchestvo i politicheskie protsessy v regionakh, 23-38.
12. Sarah Henderson, "Selling Civil Society: Western Aid and the Nongovernmental Sector in Russia," Comparative Political Studies 35, no. 2 (March 2002): 139-67;
13. Valerie Sperling, Organizing Women in Contemporary Russia: Engendering Transition (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999).
14. For example, Evans, "Recent Assessments of Social Organizations in Russia."
15. Classifications of NGOs according to their functional characteristics and analysis of their particularities are provided in A. Sungurov, "Organizatsii-posredniki v structure grazhdanskogo obshchestva. Nekotoye problemy politicheskoi modernizatsii" (Organizations-Intermediaries in the Structure of Civil Society: Some Problems of Political Modernization), in Na Puti k publichnoipolitike: 10 let strategii (On the Way to Public Policy: Ten Years of Strategy) (St. Petersburg: Norma, 2003).
16. A detailed analysis of the activities of resource centers is provided in M.I. Liborakinoi and V.N. Yakimtsa, Grazhdanskie initsiativy i budushchee Rossii (Civil Initiatives and the Future of Russia) (Moscow: Shkola Kul'turnoi politiki, 1997).
17. E. Vermisheva, "Invalidov prosiat ne bespokoit presidenta" (Invalids Are Asked Not to Disturb the President), Gazeta.ru (May 27, 2005) (www.gazeta.ru/2005/05/27/oa_158893.shtml).
18. Interviews 10, 11, 38a.
19. E.g., interviews 10, 11, and 38.
20. Interview 38.
21. Interview 38.
22. Interviews 10, 32, 56, 57, 58, 60.
23. Interviews 2, 3, 11, 32, 33.
24. Interviews 56 and 57.
25. Interview 58.
26. Ibid.
27. Ibid.
28. Interview 10.
29. Interview 60.
30. Interview 27.
31. Interview 30.
32. Interviews 27, 32, and 33.
33. Interview 11.
34. Interviews 5, 28, and 29.
35. The Yabloko party's program had a special ecological section, and some ecological NGOs worked with the party on these issues.
36. Interviews 1 and 34.
37. Interview 37.
38. A study by the Institute for Urban Economics in Moscow concluded that a little more than 10 percent of financing came from abroad. The president of the Center for Development of Democracy and Law also cites research claiming that about 10 percent of financing for Russian NGOs comes from abroad. See I. Mesheriakov and M. Liborakina, Rol nekommercheskogo sektora v ekonomicheskom razvitii Rossii (The Role of the Nonprofit Sector in the Economic Development of Russia) (Fond Institut ekonomiki goroda, 2004) (http://ruc.logincee.org/ lib_upload/2000608_{1BFC148C-A793-4BB3-9020-8137CB88D76C}.doc).
39. Interview 2.
40. Interview 71.
41. Interviews 31 and 61.
42. Interview 2.
43. Interview 34.
44. This type of behavior was more important in the Yeltsin period, when governors were elected and were under pressure to provide for their regions, while the center controlled and manipulated most tax revenues. Because governors did not have adequate financial resources, some used foundations to provide necessary social services and benefits.
45. Interview 8.
46. Interview 36.
47. Interviews 6, 7, and 57.
48. Interview 71.
49. Interview 35.