No. 199: Making Social Policy in Contemporary Russia

Author(s): Marina Khmelnitskaya, Irina Olimpieva
Editor(s): Stephen Aris, Matthias Neumann, Robert Orttung, Jeronim Perović, Heiko Pleines, Hans-Henning Schröder, Aglaya Snetkov
Series: Russian Analytical Digest (RAD)
Issue: 199
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zurich; Research Centre for East European Studies, University of Bremen; Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies, George Washington University
Publication Year: 2017

This edition asks how is social policy made in Russia? Firstly, Marina Khmelnitskaya examines the role of policy experts in shaping housing policy, assessing the degree to which they influence the process. Secondly, Irina Olimpieva analyses how trade unions seek to influence policy-making, arguing that their informal practices of direct political participation have been underestimated.

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