Politics for Profit: Business, Elections, and Policymaking in Russia

by David Szakonyi

Book Overview

Businesspeople run for and win elected office around the world, with roughly one-third of members of parliament and numerous heads of states coming directly from the private sector. Yet we know little about why these politicians choose to leave the private sector and what they actually do while in government. In Politics for Profit, David Szakonyi brings to bear sweeping quantitative and qualitative evidence from Putin-era Russia to shed light on...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108491634
• ISBN13: 9781108491631
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 350 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.6" x 9.1"