Empiracal Investigations of Institutional Reform and Development: Transformation of the Russian State Statistical Insitutions (Research Brief)

The central question of this project is: How are state institutions transformed and what is the role of international assistance in institutional reform? In other words, how does the process of organizational restructuring actually work and what types of actors (domestic elites, international organizations, etc.) and constraints (formal or informal rules, resources, technology, etc.) are most important to the process of building state institutions?

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Yoshiko M. Herrera, of Harvard University, was a 2002-03 Short-Term Travel Grants fellow.