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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      20 January 2010
      13 March 1998
      ISBN:
      9780511628351
      9780521473866
      9780521479318
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511628351
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.695kg, 364 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.53kg, 364 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Political Theory, Area Studies, Russian and East European Government, Politics and Policy, European Studies, Politics and International Relations
      Series:
      Theories of Institutional Design
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    Subjects:
    Political Theory, Area Studies, Russian and East European Government, Politics and Policy, European Studies, Politics and International Relations
    Series:
    Theories of Institutional Design
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    The authors of this book have developed a new and stimulating approach to the analysis of the transitions of Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Slovakia to democracy and a market economy. They integrate interdisciplinary theoretical work with elaborate empirical data on some of the most challenging events of the twentieth century. Three groups of phenomena and their causal interconnection are explored: the material legacies, constraints, habits and cognitive frameworks inherited from the past; the erratic configuration of new actors, and new spaces for action; and a new institutional order under which agency is institutionalized and the sustainability of institutions is achieved. The book studies the interrelations of national identities, economic interests, and political institutions with the transformation process, concentrating on issues of constitution making, democratic infrastructure, the market economy, and social policy.

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    "...the substantive chapters are well crafted, detailed, and informative about such matters as the writing of constitutions, the working of electoral systems, the privatization of the economy, and the restructuring of the welfare states." Andrew C. Janos, Slavic Review

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