PEOPLE AND THINGS DURING POLITICAL TRANSFORMATION: BY THE EXAMPLE OF ZHKH IN CHEREPOVETS
Today, the notion of «right» institutions (ones that are democratic and pro-market-oriented) prevails in conventional studies of democracy in post-communist countries. The focus is on the articulation or non-articulation of citizens' interests and their ability to influence the state and its decisions. While studying the city infrastructure and its post-Soviet transformations in current Russia, most analysts profess that changes in ownership or management style of the housing maintenance and utility companies would result in the empowerment of citizens. Many studies were developed to explore constraints that inhibit such progress. While this view captures many of the central problems of democracy building in Russia today, this study claims that such an approach should be corrected through examination of the role of objects or things.Employing the «actor-network» approach, we will argue that things do matter in the analysis of democratic policy-making and explore the case of reforms in the housing and utility sector.
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