The political is personal: Corruption, clientelism, patronage, informal practices and the dynamics of post-communism

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Notes

¹For example, did Shevardnadze's earlier career as regional party boss and his actions against corruption in the republic fragment Soviet era corruption networks in Georgia more than was the case in Armenia, especially as they helped provoke some ethnic tension? It would be ironic given subsequent events if this was the case.

²See Kim (2003) for the case for seeing Russia as a rentier state and Estrada and Arilla (2005) for a more sceptical view.