No. 254: Social Issues

Author(s): Marina Khmelnitskaya, Stanislav Klimovich, Ulla Pape
Series Editor(s): Stephen Aris, Matthias Neumann, Robert Orttung, Jeronim Perović, Heiko Pleines, Hans-Henning Schröder, Aglaya Snetkov
Series: Russian Analytical Digest (RAD)
Volume: 254
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS), ETH Zürich; Research Centre for East European Studies (FSO), University of Bremen; Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES), George Washington University; Center for Eastern European Studies (CEES), University of Zurich; German Association for East European Studies (DGO)
Publication Year: 2020

The topic of this issue is Social Issues. Firstly, Marina Khmelnitskaya focuses on policy ideas as explanatory variables for understanding policymaking and governance in Russia. Following Schmidt’s definition of the ideational process as a ‘discourse’ in which actors promote their preferred policy ideas in competition with their opponents, the article argues that in Russia the character of discourses varies between three state levels: The President, ministerial bureaucracy and the regional & local levels. Secondly, Stanislav Klimovich and Ulla Pape state that in Russia’s regions, companies closely collaborate with state administrations in the field of corporate social responsibility (CSR); they posit that business-state collaboration is characterized by interdependence and that for companies, CSR has become an important tool to institutionalize their charity activities and determine their social obligations towards the state.

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