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Carnaghan, Ellen. "Oligarchs and Democrats: Russians Confront Emerging Inequality" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Hilton Chicago and the Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, IL, Sep 02, 2004 <Not Available>. 2009-05-26 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p61402_index.html>

Carnaghan, E. , 2004-09-02 "Oligarchs and Democrats: Russians Confront Emerging Inequality" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Hilton Chicago and the Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, IL Online <.PDF>. 2009-05-26 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p61402_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Review Method: Peer Reviewed Abstract: Public opinion research has shown that many of Russia’s democrats are skeptical about markets. While they may be democrats, they are not liberal democrats. The usual explanation for this tendency is that egalitarian and paternalistic orientations have produced a political culture in Russia that is hostile to economic individualism. This paper builds a different case. Relying on intensive interviews with ordinary Russians, I examine in depth the ideas of Russia’s market skeptical democrats. I conclude that the issue in Russia is not a problematical set of cultural preferences, but problematical markets. Capitalism as it exists in Russia does not have the qualities that help to reconcile tensions between capitalism and democracy. Market mechanisms and hence outcomes seem tilted to the benefit of the few and seem to reward impudence instead of industry. Unlike Russia’s liberal democrats, market skeptical democrats have these particular conditions in mind when they respond to questions about markets. Their suspicion of markets has more to do with how markets function in Russia than with preferences for greater egalitarianism or government control of the economy. Market-doubting democrats in Russia embrace the ideals of liberal economic freedom as readily as do most liberals. They are simply unconvinced that the markets developing in their country provide most people with those freedoms. Russia’s market-skeptical democrats, then, do not oppose the construction of liberal democratic institutions in Russia. They are simply withholding their approval of markets until markets start to function in a way that appears to serve the majority of the population.

Conceptions of Democracy, Economic Success and Social Justice in Discourses on Metropolitan Governance: The Social Constructivist Challenge to the Public Choice School

Social and Political Capital in Latin American Democracies