ABSTRACT

How do residents perceive governance in Russia’s North Caucasus? Using original interviews and household survey data collected over nine months of fieldwork, this article offers a nuanced and empirically driven comparative account of governance in Chechnya, Dagestan, and Ingushetia. Mitigating between accounts of a hegemonic state that has saturated public space or strong non-state actors that consistently organize parallel systems of governance, I demonstrate that residents identify a role for both state and ostensibly non-state authorities in governance. Devoting particular attention to the relationships between state and non-state actors, this paper finds that despite similarities in governance of extraction and coercion across the three cases, there are also important differences in dispute resolution, goods provision, and regulation of symbolic practices. This multidimensional approach to governance reveals the limitations of accounts, both in the region and in general, that fail to attend to variations across governance domains.

摘要

居民如何看待俄罗斯北高加索地区的治理？本文使用在 9 个月的实地调查中收集的原始访谈和住户调查数据，对车臣、达吉斯坦和印古什的治理进行了细致入微且以经验为驱动的比较说明。在公共空间饱和的霸权国家或一贯组织平行治理系统的强大非国家行为者之间进行缓解，我证明居民确定了国家和表面上的非国家当局在治理中的作用。本文特别关注国家和非国家行为者之间的关系，发现尽管三个案例在榨取和胁迫的治理上存在相似之处，但在争议解决、商品供应、和规范符号实践。这种多维治理方法揭示了账户在该地区和一般情况下的局限性，无法解决跨治理领域的差异。