The Dorian Gray effect: winners as state breakers in postcommunism |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Neuroscience and Neurosurgery, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, MO, USA;2. Department of Biomedical Engineering, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, MO, USA;3. Washington University Pain Center, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, MO, USA;1. School of Management, Shanghai University, Shanghai, China;2. University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, MA, USA;3. Donlinks School of Economics & Management, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, China;4. School of Reliability and Systems Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, China;1. Department of Counseling, Educational Psychology and Research, University of Memphis, 100 Ball Hall, Memphis, TN 38152, USA;2. Center for Research in Educational Policy, University of Memphis, 318 Browning Hall, Memphis, TN 38152, USA |
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| Abstract: | This paper examines the relations between postcommunist states and the powerful economic groups that dominated the early stages of postcommunist economic restructuring. The main argument is that the strategic actions of “winners” systematically undermine the capacity of state institutions and the organizational coherence of administrative agencies. Against the background of a detailed study of one particular story of “postcommunist success”, the rise of Multigroup in Bulgaria, I explore the concrete manifestations of “state weakness” in postcommunism, the nature of redistributive conflicts the former socialist societies, and the historical specificity of the processes undermining the organizational bases of governance in the former Soviet world. |
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