Report at the conference "Development of Russian Law-IX: Russian Law and Globalization" at Univ. of Helsinki, Finland.

1. Development of Russian Law-IX:
Russian Law and Globalization
Changing (inter-)faces of Russian human rights
ombudsman
Konstantin P. Kokarev
Liberal Arts College,
Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration
October 6, 2016

2. There is a problem.

3. «Ваши вопросы однобокие, вы интересуетесь
только голубыми и политзаключенными, а это
очень узкий сектор государственно-общественных
отношений. Почему вы не спрашиваете про
зарплаты военных, про то, что многие стоят в
очереди на жилье и не получают его — вот что
интересует граждан России…»
Т. Москалькова

4. In last years we see a major shift to conservative
political values in Russia. New appointments of
commissioners in 2016 could be seen as a part of this
tendency.

5. Major part of public sees it as a decline of the institute
of ombudsman. But if the administrative circumstances
will be good enough we could see a new step in
institutionalization of this institutes in Russian political
system.

6. It is often said that Russia and many post-Soviet states
“lack” institutionalized political institutions.

7. “More recently it seemed that in this state “bouillon
like” political environment there is only one stable
institution, where everything is permanent: the
institution of the presidency. But the elections of 2008
have established a new power structure called
“tandemocracy”. It has demonstrated that even this
belief was an illusion.” [Рябов 2011: 88]

8. All institutions seem to be very complex and fuzzy.
But we see that some habitualization and reciprocal
typification happens.

9. The import of institutions is a complicated issue and
the study of human rights institutions (HRI) import
proves to be particularly challenging, because it shows
the value of proper institutional fields to get good
results.
Two main questions here is the state of organizational
fields and the qualities of imported institutions and
their performance.

10. Several concepts.

11. ● Goals are generally ill-defined, complex, changing, and
contradictory;
● Means-ends connections are not clear - that is, there is no
obvious connection between the technology or the way work
is done and the outcome;
● More than one technology or strategy produces the same
outcome in the organized anarchies;
● There is little or no feedback from the output to the input, and
little feed-forward from inputs to outputs, so the casual
connections between the two are not testable [Cameron 1980:
66-67].
Organized anarchies

12. There is a basic understanding of institutionalization
by Berger and Luckman [1966] that underlies
sociological neo-institutional approach:
habitualization, reciprocal typification of habitualized
actions, and legitimation. This process has different
components: emotional, cognitive, behavioral. In some
cases different components grow congruent, in some
cases not.
Institutionalization

13. people can not perceive the institution without the
association with the person holding the position;
strong demand to the person in position: professional,
ethical and so forth;
possibility of the head of the organization to determine
not only the priority areas of work, but to some point
the structure of the organization itself.
Highly personalized institutions

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17. Литература
Рябов А. В. Без институтов // 20 лет без
Берлинской стены. Прорыв к свободе /
Под ред. Н. Бубновой. М.: РОССПЭН,
2011. С. 83–92.
Cameron K. Critical questions in assessing
organizational effectiveness //
Organizational dynamics. 1980. Vol. 9. №
2. P. 66–80.
Berger, P.L., Luckmann T. The social
construction of reality: A treatise in the
sociology of knowledge. L.: Penguin
Books, 1991. [1st ed. 1966].
Еще литература

18. Thank you.
Konstantin Kokarev
konstantin.kokarev@gmail.com