Gerald M Easter
Biographic Data
| ID | 369093 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gerald M Easter |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gerald M |
| FAMILY NAME | Easter |
| SIGNATURE | EASTER G M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Boston College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 150 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Policing Protest in Russia
As Russia’s post-communist regime descends deeper into authoritarianism, protest politics has become a regular feature of the political landscape. As such, President Putin increasingly faces the “dictator’s dilemma”: How much coercion to deploy against protesters without incurring a social backlash against the regime? That question more generally is now part of analytical consideration in comparative scholarship on social movements and contentiou…
Eglė Rindzevičiūte. The Power of Systems: How Policy Sciences Opened Up the Cold War World
Eglė Rindzevičiūte’s The Power of Systems: How Policy Sciences Opened Up the Cold War World explores how Soviet and U.S. scientists cooperated during the Cold War in a major research endeavor to uncover the inner logic of complex systems of nature and society in order to facilitate more efficient human management of such forces with more enhanced technological capability and rational policymaking. It is a study of both the sociology of science at…
Response to Aaron Schneider's review of Capital, Coercion, and Postcommunist States
This dialogue might strike some readers as more amicable than critical, as the two books concur on core assumptions about the comparative politics of taxation and state building. They both prefer a macrosocial analytical framework to explain political institutional outcomes, focus on elite motives and actions as the main causal factor, and provide a historically grounded analysis. Also, both books advance recent scholarship on a neofiscal sociolo…
Constructing Grievances: Ethnic Nationalism in Russia's Republics by Elise Giuliano
Havens in a Storm: The Struggle for Global Tax Regulation – By J. C. Sharman
Havens in a Storm: The Struggle for Global Tax Regulation . J. C. Sharman . Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press , 2006 . 224 pp. $39.95 (cloth) . The relative economic autonomy enjoyed by sovereign states for much of the twentieth century is now under siege from an onslaught of interconnected international forces—institutional, ideological, and financial. And while the age in which we live is clearly not your Keynesian political economy anymore…
The Russian State in the Time of Putin
As Putin's second term ends, the tone of Western opinion toward the president has turned increasingly rancorous. Those who feel embittered by the emergence of semi-authoritarianism and crony capitalism out of the communist collapse might consider blaming the theory as well as the man. This article characterizes the post-communist Russian state and Putin's legacy as state builder. Drawing on the Russian studies literature, the article looks at the…
Divide and Pacify: Strategic Social Policies and Political Protests in Post-Communist Democracies by Pieter Vanhuysse
Journal Article Divide and Pacify: Strategic Social Policies and Political Protests in Post-Communist Democracies by Pieter Vanhuysse Get access Divide and Pacify: Strategic Social Policies and Political Protests in Post-Communist Democraciesby Pieter Vanhuysse. Budapest, CEU Press, 2006. 200pp. $41.95. Gerald M. Easter Gerald M. Easter Boston College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quart…
The State Is Dead, Long Live the State
Privatizing the State, by Béatrice Hibou, consists of a series of essays by French academics on the international political economy. The theoretical focus of the book concerns the “decline of the state” thesis, that is, the assertion that the modern state is withering away as a result of private agents of the global economy. The relentless introduction by Hibou and smart conclusion by Yves Chevrier effectively lay out the case against the thesis …
Defining Russian Federalism
Defining Russian Federalism. By Elizabeth Pascal. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2003. 224p. $74.95. The rise of Russia's regions became one of the big stories that followed the collapse of Soviet communism. After decades of submission in a highly centralized and authoritarian system, resurgent regions emerged as autonomous actors, threatening the territorial integrity and political stability of the newly independent Russian state. With the notable excep…
The Russian Tax Police
A specialist on the role of political institutions and social networks in state-building examines the development of the Russian tax police force in the post-communist period. Drawing on tax-police publications, contemporary press reports, and interviews and memoirs of key agency personnel, the author examines the Russian state's reassertion of its authority over society in the areas of economic security and resource extraction
Politics of Revenue Extraction in Post-Communist States: Poland and Russia Compared
Since the late 1990s, a consensus has emerged among scholars of the post-communist transitions that an enfeebled state is not an asset but a liability to a transition economy. Moreover, it is now accepted that underdeveloped fiscal capacity is a leading cause of state weakness in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. This article compares the alternative revenue extraction strategies developed by state leaders in post-communist Poland and R…
Roman Szporluk, Russia, Ukraine and the Breakup of the Soviet Union. Stanford: Hoover Institution Press, 2000, 440 pp
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Redefining centre‐regional relations in the Russian federation: Sverdlovsk oblast
(1997). Redefining centre‐regional relations in the Russian federation: Sverdlovsk oblast'. Europe-Asia Studies: Vol. 49, No. 4, pp. 617-635
Ideology and the Collapse of the Soviet System: A Critical History of Soviet Ideological Discourse
Contents: Preface 1. Bringing Ideology Back In: The Party and the Soviet Model of Politics 2. The Origins of Soviet Ideology and the Power of the Party 3. Ideology after Stalin: Khrushcev, Breshnev and the Revival of Communist Construction and the Resurrection of Party Power 4. Breaking the Ice: From Uskorenie to Perestroika. Gorbachevism, 1985-1987 5. The Second Phase of Perestroika: Socialist pluralism of opinions, the Socialist law-based state…
Preference for Presidentialism: Postcommunist Regime Change in Russia and the NIS
The recent wave of democratic transitions has stimulated scholarly interest in a previously undeveloped area of study: comparative presidentialism. Comparative presidentialism seeks to define variant types of presidentialism that have emerged from transition processes, to identify the conditions that shape institutional choice and to understand more clearly the causal relationship between institutional choice and democratic regime outcomes. Using…
Personal Networks and Postrevolutionary State Building: Soviet Russia Reexamined
The article contends that personal networks may facilitate state-building efforts under postrevolutionary conditions. With the breakdown of formal political structures, personal networks provide an informal social structure along which information may be exchanged, resources may be allocated, and collaborative activities may be planned. To demonstrate this argument, the article returns to the case of Soviet Russia. Using newly available archival …
Preference for Presidentialism: Postcommunist Regime Change in Russia and the NIS
The recent wave of democratic transitions has stimulated scholarly interest in a previously undeveloped area of study: comparative presidentialism. Comparative presidentialism seeks to define variant types of presidentialism that have emerged from transition processes, to identify the conditions that shape institutional choice and to understand more clearly the causal relationship between institutional choice and democratic regime outcomes. Using…
Politics of Revenue Extraction in Post-Communist States: Poland and Russia Compared
Since the late 1990s, a consensus has emerged among scholars of the post-communist transitions that an enfeebled state is not an asset but a liability to a transition economy. Moreover, it is now accepted that underdeveloped fiscal capacity is a leading cause of state weakness in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. This article compares the alternative revenue extraction strategies developed by state leaders in post-communist Poland and R…
Personal Networks and Postrevolutionary State Building: Soviet Russia Reexamined
The article contends that personal networks may facilitate state-building efforts under postrevolutionary conditions. With the breakdown of formal political structures, personal networks provide an informal social structure along which information may be exchanged, resources may be allocated, and collaborative activities may be planned. To demonstrate this argument, the article returns to the case of Soviet Russia. Using newly available archival …
The Russian State in the Time of Putin
As Putin's second term ends, the tone of Western opinion toward the president has turned increasingly rancorous. Those who feel embittered by the emergence of semi-authoritarianism and crony capitalism out of the communist collapse might consider blaming the theory as well as the man. This article characterizes the post-communist Russian state and Putin's legacy as state builder. Drawing on the Russian studies literature, the article looks at the…
Redefining centre‐regional relations in the Russian federation: Sverdlovsk oblast
(1997). Redefining centre‐regional relations in the Russian federation: Sverdlovsk oblast'. Europe-Asia Studies: Vol. 49, No. 4, pp. 617-635
The Russian Tax Police
A specialist on the role of political institutions and social networks in state-building examines the development of the Russian tax police force in the post-communist period. Drawing on tax-police publications, contemporary press reports, and interviews and memoirs of key agency personnel, the author examines the Russian state's reassertion of its authority over society in the areas of economic security and resource extraction
Ideology and the Collapse of the Soviet System: A Critical History of Soviet Ideological Discourse
Contents: Preface 1. Bringing Ideology Back In: The Party and the Soviet Model of Politics 2. The Origins of Soviet Ideology and the Power of the Party 3. Ideology after Stalin: Khrushcev, Breshnev and the Revival of Communist Construction and the Resurrection of Party Power 4. Breaking the Ice: From Uskorenie to Perestroika. Gorbachevism, 1985-1987 5. The Second Phase of Perestroika: Socialist pluralism of opinions, the Socialist law-based state…
Policing Protest in Russia
As Russia’s post-communist regime descends deeper into authoritarianism, protest politics has become a regular feature of the political landscape. As such, President Putin increasingly faces the “dictator’s dilemma”: How much coercion to deploy against protesters without incurring a social backlash against the regime? That question more generally is now part of analytical consideration in comparative scholarship on social movements and contentiou…
The State Is Dead, Long Live the State
Privatizing the State, by Béatrice Hibou, consists of a series of essays by French academics on the international political economy. The theoretical focus of the book concerns the “decline of the state” thesis, that is, the assertion that the modern state is withering away as a result of private agents of the global economy. The relentless introduction by Hibou and smart conclusion by Yves Chevrier effectively lay out the case against the thesis …
Personal Networks and Postrevolutionary State Building: Soviet Russia Reexamined
The article contends that personal networks may facilitate state-building efforts under postrevolutionary conditions. With the breakdown of formal political structures, personal networks provide an informal social structure along which information may be exchanged, resources may be allocated, and collaborative activities may be planned. To demonstrate this argument, the article returns to the case of Soviet Russia. Using newly available archival …
Redefining centre‐regional relations in the Russian federation: Sverdlovsk oblast
(1997). Redefining centre‐regional relations in the Russian federation: Sverdlovsk oblast'. Europe-Asia Studies: Vol. 49, No. 4, pp. 617-635
Ideology and the Collapse of the Soviet System: A Critical History of Soviet Ideological Discourse
Contents: Preface 1. Bringing Ideology Back In: The Party and the Soviet Model of Politics 2. The Origins of Soviet Ideology and the Power of the Party 3. Ideology after Stalin: Khrushcev, Breshnev and the Revival of Communist Construction and the Resurrection of Party Power 4. Breaking the Ice: From Uskorenie to Perestroika. Gorbachevism, 1985-1987 5. The Second Phase of Perestroika: Socialist pluralism of opinions, the Socialist law-based state…
Preference for Presidentialism: Postcommunist Regime Change in Russia and the NIS
The recent wave of democratic transitions has stimulated scholarly interest in a previously undeveloped area of study: comparative presidentialism. Comparative presidentialism seeks to define variant types of presidentialism that have emerged from transition processes, to identify the conditions that shape institutional choice and to understand more clearly the causal relationship between institutional choice and democratic regime outcomes. Using…
Roman Szporluk, Russia, Ukraine and the Breakup of the Soviet Union. Stanford: Hoover Institution Press, 2000, 440 pp
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Russian Tax Police
A specialist on the role of political institutions and social networks in state-building examines the development of the Russian tax police force in the post-communist period. Drawing on tax-police publications, contemporary press reports, and interviews and memoirs of key agency personnel, the author examines the Russian state's reassertion of its authority over society in the areas of economic security and resource extraction
Politics of Revenue Extraction in Post-Communist States: Poland and Russia Compared
Since the late 1990s, a consensus has emerged among scholars of the post-communist transitions that an enfeebled state is not an asset but a liability to a transition economy. Moreover, it is now accepted that underdeveloped fiscal capacity is a leading cause of state weakness in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. This article compares the alternative revenue extraction strategies developed by state leaders in post-communist Poland and R…
Defining Russian Federalism
Defining Russian Federalism. By Elizabeth Pascal. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2003. 224p. $74.95. The rise of Russia's regions became one of the big stories that followed the collapse of Soviet communism. After decades of submission in a highly centralized and authoritarian system, resurgent regions emerged as autonomous actors, threatening the territorial integrity and political stability of the newly independent Russian state. With the notable excep…
The State Is Dead, Long Live the State
Privatizing the State, by Béatrice Hibou, consists of a series of essays by French academics on the international political economy. The theoretical focus of the book concerns the “decline of the state” thesis, that is, the assertion that the modern state is withering away as a result of private agents of the global economy. The relentless introduction by Hibou and smart conclusion by Yves Chevrier effectively lay out the case against the thesis …
Divide and Pacify: Strategic Social Policies and Political Protests in Post-Communist Democracies by Pieter Vanhuysse
Journal Article Divide and Pacify: Strategic Social Policies and Political Protests in Post-Communist Democracies by Pieter Vanhuysse Get access Divide and Pacify: Strategic Social Policies and Political Protests in Post-Communist Democraciesby Pieter Vanhuysse. Budapest, CEU Press, 2006. 200pp. $41.95. Gerald M. Easter Gerald M. Easter Boston College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quart…
Havens in a Storm: The Struggle for Global Tax Regulation – By J. C. Sharman
Havens in a Storm: The Struggle for Global Tax Regulation . J. C. Sharman . Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press , 2006 . 224 pp. $39.95 (cloth) . The relative economic autonomy enjoyed by sovereign states for much of the twentieth century is now under siege from an onslaught of interconnected international forces—institutional, ideological, and financial. And while the age in which we live is clearly not your Keynesian political economy anymore…
The Russian State in the Time of Putin
As Putin's second term ends, the tone of Western opinion toward the president has turned increasingly rancorous. Those who feel embittered by the emergence of semi-authoritarianism and crony capitalism out of the communist collapse might consider blaming the theory as well as the man. This article characterizes the post-communist Russian state and Putin's legacy as state builder. Drawing on the Russian studies literature, the article looks at the…
Constructing Grievances: Ethnic Nationalism in Russia's Republics by Elise Giuliano
Response to Aaron Schneider's review of Capital, Coercion, and Postcommunist States
This dialogue might strike some readers as more amicable than critical, as the two books concur on core assumptions about the comparative politics of taxation and state building. They both prefer a macrosocial analytical framework to explain political institutional outcomes, focus on elite motives and actions as the main causal factor, and provide a historically grounded analysis. Also, both books advance recent scholarship on a neofiscal sociolo…
Eglė Rindzevičiūte. The Power of Systems: How Policy Sciences Opened Up the Cold War World
Eglė Rindzevičiūte’s The Power of Systems: How Policy Sciences Opened Up the Cold War World explores how Soviet and U.S. scientists cooperated during the Cold War in a major research endeavor to uncover the inner logic of complex systems of nature and society in order to facilitate more efficient human management of such forces with more enhanced technological capability and rational policymaking. It is a study of both the sociology of science at…
Policing Protest in Russia
As Russia’s post-communist regime descends deeper into authoritarianism, protest politics has become a regular feature of the political landscape. As such, President Putin increasingly faces the “dictator’s dilemma”: How much coercion to deploy against protesters without incurring a social backlash against the regime? That question more generally is now part of analytical consideration in comparative scholarship on social movements and contentiou…
Political science (16 works) · Law (14 works) · Politics (14 works) · Law (13 works) · Political economy (13 works) · Sociology (10 works) · State (computer science (7 works) · Economics (6 works) · Russia and Soviet political economy (6 works) · Communism (5 works)