14. For various accounts, see Sergey Aleksashenko, Putin’s Counterrevolution: How Putin’s Autocracy Undercut Russia’s Economy and Chances for Democracy (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2018); Anders Åslund, Russia’s Crony Capitalism: The Path from Market Economy to Kleptocracy (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2019).
15. For classical accounts of the 1960s, see Walt Whitman Rostow, The Stages of Economic Growth: A Non-Communist Manifesto (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1960); Cyril Black, The Dynamics of Modernization: A Study in Comparative History (New York: Harper & Row, 1966); Huntington, Political Order in Changing Societies.
16. See Adam Przeworski, Michael Alvarez, Jose Cheibub, Fernando Limongi, Democracy and Development: Political Institutions and Well-Being in the World, 1950–1990 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000); Ronald Inglehart, Christian Welzel, Modernization, Cultural Changes, and Democracy: A Human Development Sequence (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005).
17. “Neoliberalism” is widely used in present-day social science as a pejorative term. See David Harvey, A Brief History of Neoliberalism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005). For a more balanced perspective in analysis of post-Communist neoliberal policies, see Hilary Appel, Mitchell Orenstein, From Triumph to Crisis: Neoliberal Economic Reform in Postcommunist Countries (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018).
18. See Douglass C. North, John J. Wallis, Barry R. Weingast, Violence and Social Orders: A Conceptual Framework for Interpreting Recorded Human History (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009).
19. See Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson, Why Nations Faiclass="underline" The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (New York: Crown Business, 2012).
20. See Charles Tilly, Coercion, Capital, and European States, AD 990–1992 (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1992); Francis Fukuyama, The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution (New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2011); Francis Fukuyama, Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy (New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2014).
21. For a critical account, see Easterly, The Tyranny of Experts.
22. For an overview, see The Macroeconomics of Populism in Latin America, eds. Rudiger Dornbusch, Sebastian Edwards (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991).
23. See Huntington, Political Order in Changing Societies; Mancur Olson, The Rise and Decline of Nations: Economic Growth, Stagflation, and Social Rigidities (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1982).
24. See Francis Fukuyama, The End of History and the Last Man (New York: Free Press, 1992).
25. See Offe, “Capitalism by Democratic Design?”
26. For the essence of these arguments, see Victor Polterovich, Vladimir Popov, “Democratization, Quality of Institutions and Economic Growth,” TIGER Working Papers, no. 102, 2007, http://www.tiger.edu.pl/publikacje/TWP102.pdf, accessed September 7, 2021; Vladimir Popov, Mixed Fortunes: An Economic History of China, Russia, and the West (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014).
27. See “Zhestkim kursom . . . Analiticheskaya zapiska Leningradskoi assotsiatsii sotsial’no-ekonomicheskikh nauk”; Vek ХХ i mir no. 6 (1990): 15–19.
28. For the full text of this manifesto, see Dmitry Medvedev, “Rossiya, Vpered!,” Gazeta.ru, September 25, 2009, http://www.gazeta.ru/comments/2009/09/10_a_3258568.shtml, accessed September 7, 2021.
29. See Huntington, Political Order in Changing Societies, 32–58.
30. See William Nordhaus, “The Political Business Cycle,” Review of Economic Studies 42, no. 2 (1975): 169–190. On political business cycles in Russia in the 1990s, see Daniel Treisman, Vladimir Gimpelson, “Political Business Cycles and Russian Elections, or The Manipulations of ‘Chudar,’” British Journal of Political Science 31, no. 2 (2001): 225–246.
31. See George Tsebelis, Veto Players: How Political Institutions Work (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2002).
32. See Fritz W. Sharpf, “The Joint-Decision Trap: Lessons from German Federalism and European Integration,” Public Administration 66, no. 3 (1988): 239–278.
33. See Hanna Bäck, Wolfgang C. Muller, Benjamin Nyblade, “Multiparty Government and Economic Policy-Making,” Public Choice 170 (2017): 33–62.
34. See Olson, The Rise and Decline of Nations, especially chapter 3.