QUASIMODERNIZATION AS CHARACTERISTICS OF THE RUSSIAN ECONOMY CURRENT STATE
The article marks out 4 groups of the modernization criteria: economic, political, social and institutional. The crucial criteria are institutional. They include the replacement of informal norms and traditions by the formal rules of law, the enforcement of equal protection of the law, the structuring of society into different groups according to their functions. Modernization in this context is seen as a process of building of institutional system that meets the principles of civil society and the welfare state. We argue that the state of the Russian economy can be described as quasimodernization, since the formal characteristics of the institutional system specific to the developed countries exist; there is a simultaneous expansion of the traditional norms of the society. The level of confidence in existing institutions is low, as evidenced by the value of the Corruption Perceptions Index.