The Arseniy Yatsenyuk Open Ukraine Foundation invites you to attend the meeting within the Discussion Club «Open World» on the topic «Ukraine Governance in Transformation: Taxes and Trust in Comparison to Poland and Russia».
The meeting will take place on Thursday, June 29 at 19:00, at Bohdan Khmelnytsky str. 8/16, «Ukrinform».
The guest of the event is Senior Lecturer at King’s Russia Institute, King’s College, London, Dr. Marc P. Berenson.
Dr. Marc P. Berenson will present a portion of his forthcoming book, Taxes and Trust: From Coercion to Compliance in Poland, Russia and Ukraine (Cambridge University Press, November 2017.) Taxes and Trust is the first book on taxes to focus on trust and the first work of social science to concentrate on how tax policy actually gets implemented on the ground in Poland, Russia, and Ukraine. It highlights the nuances of the transitional Ukraine case and explains precisely how and why that ‘borderland’ country differs from the ideal types of coercive Russia and compliance-oriented Poland. Through nine bespoke taxpayer surveys (the Ukraine surveys conducted in cooperation with the Razumkov Center for Economic and Political Studies), an unprecedented bureaucratic survey and more than fifteen years of qualitative research, the book emphasizes the building and accumulation of trust in the transition from a coercive tax state to a compliant one.
The registration for the event is required at the following link https://goo.gl/forms/yrl3LAQCDtbOPW0X2.
The working language of the meeting is English.
For your information:
Discussion Club «Open World» is an educational project of the «Open Ukraine» Foundation for socially active young people. Its goal is to raise a new generation of responsible leaders. Every month the Foundation holds lectures with renowned experts, politicians and public figures, during which they discuss ways of effective solutions to social problems in Ukraine and in the world.
Dr. Marc P. Berenson is Senior Lecturer at King’s Russia Institute, King’s College, London. He has undertaken consultancy work for the World Bank in Russia and the OECD’s Tax and Development Programme. After receiving his BA from Harvard University, he founded and directed the ‘Law in Action’ programme for Freedom House in Ukraine before receiving his Ph.D. in Political Science from Princeton University in 2006.
