TY  - JOUR
TI  - Searching Efficient Owners in the Apartment House
T2  - Economic Sociology
IS  - Economic Sociology
KW  - homeowner
KW  - housing and communal services
KW  - communal property
KW  - collective action
KW  - redistributive economy
KW  - apartment house
KW  - social contract
KW  - homeowners association
AB  - The article demonstrates the results of qualitative and quantitative research devoted to the formation of efficient owners of apartment houses under the housing and communal services reform in Russia. Authors found out that today owners of privatized apartments are insufficiently mature for successful implementation of the housing and communal services reform, introduction of new communal technologies. Most homeowners of apartment houses are passive and disorganized, inclined to state and municipal dependency, inexperienced in collective decision making, and suspicious of neighbors and officials. Free rider problem is also there. Research findings confirm the assumption concerning that the housing and communal services reform is blocked by the vertical pattern of social contract in Russia. Therefore, it seems to be necessary to elaborate an alternative program for housing and communal services reform to develop liberal redestributive (razdatochnaya) economy.
AU  - Anna Ermishina
AU  - Lyudmila Klimenko
UR  - https://ecsoc.hse.ru/en/2010-11-4/26593508.html
PY  - 2010
SP  - 105-136
VL  - 11