Hilary Appel

Former Research Scholar

Professional Affiliation

Associate Professor, Department of Government, Claremont McKenna College

Wilson Center Project

Ideology, Interests and Post-communist Regime Change: Privatization in Russia and the Czech Republic

Project Summary

the transformation of property rights systems through a detailed comparative study of the choices and strategies of economic elites in privatizing large-scale productive property; argues that privatization, like other major structural reforms, was designed and implemented in a particular fashion not only to distribute gains and losses to supporters and opponents, but also to advance a particular vision of the type of political and economic system for the new state

Previous Terms

Short-Term Scholar, Kennan Institute Kennan Institute Expertise: Russia and Eurasia Affiliation: Associate Professor, Department of Government, Claremont McKenna College, Claremont, California Wilson Center Project(s): "The Politics of East European Tax Reform" Term: Jun 01, 2008- Jun 01, 2008. Subjects Eastern Europe,Russia,Ukraine