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treatment from the police or the courts.” Many Russians certainly are familiar with this
problem, but projects like those described above may help raise the intensity of
citizenship, at least for some.
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One reason rule of law and security sector reform is so difficult is because, as
Stephen Holmes reminds us, “legal reform is a branch of state building.”
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Although
many commentators believe that Vladimir Putin has gone too far in his effort to build a
strong state, there are good reasons to doubt that he has made much long-term progress in
this respect. Absent state accountability, it is still too easy for state officials to use their
position and state resources for their own ends, which ultimately weakens the state.
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Meaningful state accountability is still a long way away in Russia, if it will ever arrive.
But if it is to arrive, it will take multiple modes of state-civil society interaction to
achieve this goal, including the willingness of civil society groups to get down in the
trenches with state officials and try to change their beliefs and practices from the bottom
up and the inside out, one bureaucrat at a time.
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Guillermo O’Donnell, “On the State, Democratization, and Some Conceptual Problems: A Latin
American View with Glances at Some Postcommunist Countries,” World Development, 21 (1993), 1355-1369. Reprinted in Counterpoint: Selected Essays on Authoritarianism and Democratization (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1999), 133-157. See also: Guillermo O’Donnell, “Democracy, Law, and Comparative Politics,” Studies in Comparative International Development, 36 (2001), 7-36; Ungar, Elusive Reform; Juan E. Mendez, Guillermo O’Donnell, and Paulo Sergio Pinheiro, eds, The (Un)Rule of Law and the Underprivileged in Latin America (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1999).
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Holmes, “Can Foreign Aid Promote the Rule of Law?”.
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Holmes, “Can Foreign Aid Promote the Rule of Law?”; Brian D. Taylor, “Putin’s State Building
Project: Issues for the Second Term,” Program on New Approaches to Russian Security Policy Memo Series, Memo No. 323, November 2003; Susan Rose-Ackerman, Corruption and Government: Causes, Consequences, and Reform (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), esp. pp. 113-174, 228-229.
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treatment from the police or the courts.” Many Russians certainly are familiar with this
problem, but projects like those described above may help raise the intensity of
citizenship, at least for some.
82
One reason rule of law and security sector reform is so difficult is because, as
Stephen Holmes reminds us, “legal reform is a branch of state building.”
83
Although
many commentators believe that Vladimir Putin has gone too far in his effort to build a
strong state, there are good reasons to doubt that he has made much long-term progress in
this respect. Absent state accountability, it is still too easy for state officials to use their
position and state resources for their own ends, which ultimately weakens the state.
84
Meaningful state accountability is still a long way away in Russia, if it will ever arrive.
But if it is to arrive, it will take multiple modes of state-civil society interaction to
achieve this goal, including the willingness of civil society groups to get down in the
trenches with state officials and try to change their beliefs and practices from the bottom
up and the inside out, one bureaucrat at a time.
82
Guillermo O’Donnell, “On the State, Democratization, and Some Conceptual Problems: A Latin
American View with Glances at Some Postcommunist Countries,” World Development, 21 (1993), 1355-
1369. Reprinted in Counterpoint: Selected Essays on Authoritarianism and Democratization (Notre Dame:
University of Notre Dame Press, 1999), 133-157. See also: Guillermo O’Donnell, “Democracy, Law, and
Comparative Politics,” Studies in Comparative International Development, 36 (2001), 7-36; Ungar, Elusive
Reform; Juan E. Mendez, Guillermo O’Donnell, and Paulo Sergio Pinheiro, eds, The (Un)Rule of Law and
the Underprivileged in Latin America (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1999).
83
Holmes, “Can Foreign Aid Promote the Rule of Law?”.
84
Holmes, “Can Foreign Aid Promote the Rule of Law?”; Brian D. Taylor, “Putin’s State Building
Project: Issues for the Second Term,” Program on New Approaches to Russian Security Policy Memo
Series, Memo No. 323, November 2003; Susan Rose-Ackerman, Corruption and Government: Causes,
Consequences, and Reform (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), esp. pp. 113-174, 228-229.
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