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When Public Institutions Fail: Coping with Dysfunctional Government in Post-Soviet Russia

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Theodore P. Gerber

Publication year - 2004

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Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 1537-6052

pISSN - 1536-5042

DOI - 10.1525/ctx.2004.3.1.20

Subject(s) - dysfunctional family , coping (psychology) , government (linguistics) , political economy , political science , social institution , function (biology) , public institution , sociology , public administration , public relations , criminology , law , social science , psychology , linguistics , philosophy , psychiatry , evolutionary biology , biology , psychotherapist

Americans take for granted that public institutions such as schools and courts will function in an effective, predictable fashion. Contemporary Russia shows what happens when they do not. People's lives are thrown into turmoil, and how they cope can become part of the problem.

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