Graduation Year
2017
Date of Submission
5-2017
Document Type
Open Access Senior Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE)
Reader 1
Cameron Shelton
Reader 2
Larissa Rudova
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© 2017 Joshua W Rooney
Abstract
A fundamental question to both historians and development economists is why countries today are able to reach and maintain such starkly different economic outcomes. Popular explanations include geographic and climatological features, short-term policy decisions, and economic institutions. This paper looks at the importance of violence and social pressure in the transformation and conservation of political and economic institutions in Russia. It finds that several major historical legacies including serfdom, Mongol dominance, Orthodoxy, and authoritarianism significantly influence both the past a present institutional setting. Furthermore, such legacies have proven to be major obstructions to the emergence of economic liberalism.
Recommended Citation
Rooney, Joshua W., "Institutional Development: Interpreting the Russian Case" (2017). CMC Senior Theses. 1549.
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1549
