CEU's John Earle On Russian Bureaucracy : Bigger Can Be Better

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's plan to slash the government's bureaucracy may not cure the country's economic woes, says CEU economics professor John Earle. In a new piece in The Moscow Times co-authored with University of Wisconsin-Madison's Scott Gehlbach, Earle says "cutting Russia’s bureaucracy is a misguided solution to the wrong problem. The country’s problem is not that its bureaucracy is too large. It’s that the bureaucrats it does have aren’t responsive to the people they serve. There are no easy solutions to that problem, but concentrating power in the hands of a few state officials runs the risk of making the situation worse, not better." 

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