Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0 Author-Name: Konstantin Yanovsky Author-Name-First: Konstantin Author-Name-Last: Yanovsky Author-Workplace-Name: Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy Author-Name: Sergey Zhavoronkov Author-Name-First: Sergey Author-Name-Last: Zhavoronkov Author-Workplace-Name: Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy Author-Name: Yulia Malysheva Author-Name-First: Yulia Author-Name-Last: Malysheva Author-Workplace-Name: Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy Title: Import of Institutions: the Regional Level Abstract: In the frame of the present research we considered a hypothesis on the existence of a trend to a widespreading of standards and practices which expand the horizon of the regional authorities' discretion and possibilities for their discretionary regulation, due to the federal authorities' failures to maintain the fundamentals of the Rule of Law. The collected data testify in favor of the hypothesis. Length: 24711 words. Creation-Date: 2006 Revision-Date: 2006 File-URL: https://www.iep.ru/files/RePEc/gai/ppaper/4Yanovsky.pdf File-Format: Application/pdf File-Function: Revised version, 2006 Classification-JEL: D72, D73, D78 Keywords: political institutions Handle: RePEc:gai:ppaper:4