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Chirikova A.E., Ledyaev V.G. Power in the mono-industrial company town. In: Power and Elites



Chirikova A.E., Ledyaev V.G. Power in the mono-industrial company town. In: Power and Elites / Ed. by A. Duka. Vol. 3. St. Petersburg: Intersotsis, 2016. — 256 р. P. 206-234.
ISSN 2410-9517
DOI 10.31119/pe.2016.3.7

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Abstract

Th e article is based on the outcomes of empirical research conducted in 2011-2015 in fi ve small Russian towns including mono-industrial company town in the Perm region. Th e main corpus of empirical data was obtained by indepth face to face interviews with local politicians, public offi cials, businessmen, local and regional experts. Confi guration of the most infl uential actors in the town substantially diff ers from what we discovered in other local communities where actors representing the local executives dominate. Th e most infl uential actors in the mono-industrial company town are: the head of the town, the leadership of the city-forming enterprise, and the leadership of the district administration; there are signifi cant diff erences between the experts in the evaluation of their powerful potential. Other actors — municipal and regional legislatures, small business, civic organizations — are the actors of the second level of infl uence, while the head of the executive branch in the town whose position in other local communities usually guarantee the leadership of its incumbent, did not have suffi cient personal resources and was in fact dependent on the head of the town.  

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