Overview

This study makes a methodological effort to advance the social science debate on post-communist transformation beyond the limitations of its first decade. Offering theoretical and empirical analyses of fundamental economic, cultural and political problems of systemic change and reform in Central and Eastern Europe, the authors seek to broaden and deepen the research agenda by developing a set of interrelated approaches that are cross-disciplinary, sociologically informed, historically comparative, and global. The work's major substantive themes revolve around problems of post-communist socio-economic transformations. Specifically, it explores post-communist systemic change, the role of religion and collective identity, the significance of trust and economic culture, patterns of state-economy interactions in enterprise restructuring, the context of EU expansion, the strengths and weaknesses of economic theory and neo-liberal doctrine, and the history of ideas in the post-communist transformation debate.

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Author:   Frank Bönker ,  Klaus Müller ,  Andreas Pickel ,  Valerie Bunce
Publisher:   Rowman & Littlefield
Imprint:   Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.40cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9780742518391

ISBN 10:   0742518396
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   05 August 2003
Audience:   General/trade ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Chapter 1 Cross-Disciplinary Approaches to Postcommunist Transformation: Context and Agenda Chapter 2 Transformation as a Subject of Economic Theory Chapter 3 The Crisis of Transition as a State Crisis Chapter 4 Trust in Transition Chapter 5 Networks, Social Capital and Leadership: Methodological Remarks on Approaches to the Study of Postcommunist Transformation Chapter 6 Comparative Economics and the Study of Russian Transition Chapter 7 Talking the Talk and Walking the Walk: The Cultural and Institutional Effects of Western Models Chapter 8 Global, Transnational, and National Change Mechanisms: Bridging International and Comparative Approaches to Postcommunist Transformation Chapter 9 Economic Transformation, Moral Resources, and the State in Postsocialist Societies: On the Comparative Analysis of Transformation Paths in Central and Eastern Europe Chapter 10 Transformation Process, Modernization Patterns, and Collective Identities: Democratization, Nationalism, and Religion in Postcommunist Germany, Poland, and Russia Chapter 11 The Path-Dependence of Transitology Chapter 12 An Excursion to the Transitology Zoo: Comments on Béla Greskovits Chapter 13 Commentary on Béla Greskovits, ""The Path-Dependence of Transitology"""

Reviews

Taken as a whole, the volume represents an important contribution to the transition agenda, for the individual contributions offer corrections to that agenda. Slavic Review A meaty, original, comparative study of socioeconomic change in the former Soviet system. The scholarship is uniformly excellent. An exciting work! -- Edward A. Tiryakian, Duke University

A meaty, original, comparative study of socioeconomic change in the former Soviet system. The scholarship is uniformly excellent. An exciting work!--Tiryakian, Edward A.

Taken as a whole, the volume represents an important contribution to the transition agenda, for the individual contributions offer corrections to that agenda. * Slavic Review * A meaty, original, comparative study of socioeconomic change in the former Soviet system. The scholarship is uniformly excellent. An exciting work! -- Edward A. Tiryakian, Duke University

Author Information

Frank Bsnker is lecturer at the Department of Economics at European University Viadrina, Frankfurt. Klaus MYller is assistant professor of sociology at Friedrich Schiller UniversitSt, Jena. Andreas Pickel is associate professor of political science at Trent University, Ontario.

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