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Capitalism and Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe

Capitalism and Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe

Capitalism and Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe

Assessing the Legacy of Communist Rule
Editors:
Grzegorz Ekiert, Harvard University, Massachusetts
Stephen E. Hanson, University of Washington
Grzegorz Ekiert, Stephen E. Hanson, Herbert Kitschelt, Jeffrey S. Kopstein, David A. Reilly, Anna Grzymala-Busse, Allison Stanger, Tomasz Inglot, Phineas Baxandall, Juliet Johnson, Jan Kubik, Paul Pierson
Published:
September 2003
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Paperback
ISBN:
9780521529853

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    Including essays by several leading contemporary specialists, this volume addresses the extent to which postcommunist societies have successfully institutionalized democratic politics and capitalist market economies over a decade after the collapse of the Soviet bloc. As the first volume to apply a systematic "comparative historical" approach to the subject matter, it reveals the precise social, cultural, and geographical constraints and opportunities facing postcommunist reformers.

    • Original works by leading contemporary specialists in East European politics, as well as well-known comparative-historical theorists
    • Covers political/economic change in both East-Central Europe and Russia; others only on either Eastern Europe or former Soviet Union
    • Utilizes a consistent theoretical approach

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    September 2003
    Hardback
    9780521822954
    390 pages
    236 × 159 × 30 mm
    0.74kg
    6 b/w illus. 2 maps 24 tables
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    Table of Contents

    • About the contributors
    • Acknowledgments
    • Introduction Grzegorz Ekiert and Stephen E. Hanson
    • Part I. Postcommunist Transformations and the Role of Historical Legacies:
    • 1. Time, space and institutional change in central and eastern Europe Grzegorz Ekiert and Stephen E. Hanson
    • 2. Accounting for postcommunist regime diversity: what counts as a good cause? Herbert Kitschelt
    • Part II. Postcommunist Europe: Continuity and Change in Regional Patterns:
    • 3. Patterns of postcommunist transformation in central and eastern Europe Grzegorz Ekiert
    • 4. Postcommunist spaces: a political geography approach to explaining postcommunist outcomes Jeffrey S. Kopstein and David A. Reilly
    • Part III. Institutional Redesign and Historical Legacies: Case Studies:
    • 5. Redeeming the past: communist successor parties after 1989 Anna Grzymala-Busse
    • 6. Leninist legacies and legacies of state socialism in postcommunist central Europe's constitutional development Allison Stanger
    • 7. Historical legacies, institutions and the politics of social policy in Hungary and Poland, 1989–99 Tomasz Inglot
    • 8. Postcommunist unemployment politics: historical legacies and the curious acceptance of job loss Phineas Baxandall
    • 9. 'Past' dependence or path contingency? Institutional design in postcommunist financial systems Juliet Johnson
    • 10. Cultural legacies of state socialism: history making and cultural-political entrepreneurship in postcommunist Poland and Russia Jan Kubik
    • Epilogue: from area studies to contextualized comparisons Paul Pierson
    • Index.
      Contributors
    • Grzegorz Ekiert, Stephen E. Hanson, Herbert Kitschelt, Jeffrey S. Kopstein, David A. Reilly, Anna Grzymala-Busse, Allison Stanger, Tomasz Inglot, Phineas Baxandall, Juliet Johnson, Jan Kubik, Paul Pierson

    • Editors
    • Grzegorz Ekiert , Harvard University, Massachusetts
    • Stephen E. Hanson , University of Washington