Perceptions of governance

State and non-state governance in the North Caucasus

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ID6357879
AuthorsSasha Klyachkina (0000-0001-9114-3880, Independent researcher, corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume37
Issue4
Pages336-361
Publication date2021-07-04
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenuePost-Soviet Affairs (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1060-586X • E-ISSN: 1938-2855
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/1060586x.2021.1954809
OpenAlexW3192480431
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited56

How do residents perceive governance in Russia’s North Caucasus? Using original interviews and household survey data collected over nine months of fieldwork, this article offers a nuanced and empirically driven comparative account of governance in Chechnya, Dagestan, and Ingushetia. Mitigating between accounts of a hegemonic state that has saturated public space or strong non-state actors that consistently organize parallel systems of governance, I demonstrate that residents identify a role for both state and ostensibly non-state authorities in governance. Devoting particular attention to the relationships between state and non-state actors, this paper finds that despite similarities in governance of extraction and coercion across the three cases, there are also important differences in dispute resolution, goods provision, and regulation of symbolic practices. This multidimensional approach to governance reveals the limitations of accounts, both in the region and in general, that fail to attend to variations across governance domains

Autonomy · Business · Coercion (linguistics · Corporate governance · Hegemony · Political science · Politics · State (computer science · Gender, Security, and Conflict · Law · Political Conflict and Governance · Soviet and Russian History

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