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The protracted fight to reform Russian state service has now entered its fifth round, and it is unclear whether more rounds will follow. The purpose of this chapter is to assess why this process has been so long, tortured, and—to this point—unimpressive in its results. This requires a reassessment of the course of reform from a more comprehensive angle than that adopted by earlier works on this subject, such as the World Bank’s ‘The Transformation of Russian State Service: A History of Reform Efforts from 1992 to 2000’, whose authors offered a detailed description of the events and clash of ideas associated with the reform of Russian officialdom.1
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On this issue, see Eugene Huskey, ‘The Higher Party Schools to Civil Service Academies: The Marketization of Bureaucratic Training in Russia’, Slavic Review, no. 2 (2004): 325–48.
On the French tradition, see Ezra Suleiman, Dismantling Democratic States (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003), 168–9.
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Obolonsky, A. (2009). Why Is It So Difficult to Reform Russian Officialdom?. In: Rowney, D.K., Huskey, E. (eds) Russian Bureaucracy and the State. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230244993_18
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