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Communism and society. --- Russia (Federation) --- Russia (Federation) --- Politics and government --- Social conditions

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This paper reviews the literature that explores the drivers and effects of financial secrecy on emerging economies. It shows that most of the research on financial secrecy has been focused on issues of tax avoidance, neglecting the problems of institutional arbitrage that go beyond taxation issues. The paper discusses the limits of the institutionalist paradigm that treats businesses solely as rule-takers and calls for more attention to business agency and responsibility. Discussions about corporate social responsibility in emerging economies should incorporate thinking about the potential role that businesses, and especially big corporations, could play in promoting more effective institutions at home. Further research is needed to understand the political and institutional effects of global financial secrecy at the domestic level. The paper suggests some promising avenues for future research as well as new items to be included on the policy-making agenda in relation to financial secrecy.

Corporate Social Responsibility --- E-Finance and E-Security --- Emerging Market Economies --- Finance and Financial Sector Development --- Financial Flows --- Financial Regulation --- Financial Regulation and Supervision --- Financial Secrecy --- Financial Technology --- Information and Communication Technologies --- Information Security and Privacy --- Macroeconomics and Economic Growth --- Public Sector Economics --- Tax Evasion --- Taxation and Subsidies

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This study takes advantage of a publicly salient policy sphere - road quality - in the Russian Federation's capital city to explore the use of digital technologies as means of aggregating information and demonstrating government capacity and effectiveness. It focuses on the potential linkage between road quality based on citizens' complaints and electoral outcomes in two rounds of Moscow mayoral elections in 2013 and 2018. The data on more than 200,000 online potholes' complaints were collected and combined with local election data. The causal relationship between these two processes is established, making use of an arguably exogenous variation in the differences across local weather conditions during the heating season that differentially affects pothole creation but is uncorrelated with electoral outcomes. The results indicate that greater use of digital technologies (measured by pothole complaints) results in an increased number of votes and a higher margin of victory for the incumbent. They highlight digital technologies' role as a tool to create participatory governance mechanisms and convey to the public an image of a transparent, responsive, and capable government.

Digital Infrastructure --- E-Government --- Elections --- Government Capacity --- Participatory Governance --- Politics and Government --- Pothole Managment --- Public Sector Development --- Responsiveness --- Roads --- Roads and Highways --- Stakeholder Engagement --- Transparency --- Transport --- Urban Development --- Urban Governance and Management