Developers and Urban Activists of Saint-Petersburg as Interest Groups: Comparative Analysis of the 2010 - 2016 Period

Student: Mitrofanov Vsevolod

Faculty: Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences

Educational Programme: Political Science (Bachelor)

Final Grade: 7

Year of Graduation: 2017

The research explains the current situation in St. Petersburg of the conflict between developers and the city protection community and the reasons for success of these groups in achieving their goals. Relying on the most important theoretical concepts of interaction between politicians, bureaucrats and interest groups, analyzing theories of interest groups, competitive authoritarianism and the model of non-patrimonial practices of interaction between government and society, and also studying 18 cases of interaction between city defenders and developers in St. Petersburg, the author comes to the conclusion that the key factor influencing the group's success in achieving its goals is public opinion and the dependence of the Government of St. Petersburg on it.

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