COMPARATIVE STUDY OF OIL AND GAS POLICIES IN RUSSIA (1991-2018)

Abstract

This article is developed in the fields of Political Science and Public Policy and aims to make a comparative analysis of the Yeltsin and Putin governments as case studies concerning its respective policies for oil and gas. With this in mind there will be made evaluations of the main policies directed to the field in each government, so as to verify if there is a causal relation between the outputs and outcomes, as well as make a description of the process around the cycle of public policy. Results point to higher effectivity in the implementation of policies in the Putin administration, when compared to his predecessor. They indicate, as well, that the international and domestic context exerted a big impact in the different results I the two periods. However, the hypothesis that understands the actual agency of the government, especially each government’s posture regarding economic elites, as a determinant factor to explain the observed disparity, was reinforced.