Overview

This important collection looks at the progress in democratization and economic liberalization of the twenty-seven post-communist countries of Eurasia with some guarded optimism. Belarus, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan are clearly unabashed authoritarian regimes with only sporadic ventures toward political accountability and very limited effort to liberalize economically. Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Russia have made more substantial moves, particularly on the economic side, but the regimes seem to be undergoing political retrenchment. Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovenia, and the three Baltic States clearly have competitive democracies with effective political institutions and processes and functioning market economies. But, as some of the contributors suggest, there remain some very serious challenges and unmet expectations. It is clear that the ""dual transition"" of democratization and economic liberalization has been a challenge for all the regimes that have seriously attempted it.

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Author:   Norman A. Graham ,  Folke Lindahl
Publisher:   Michigan State University Press
Imprint:   Michigan State University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.420kg
ISBN:  

9780870137662

ISBN 10:   0870137662
Pages:   287
Publication Date:   30 May 2006
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"* Too Few or Too Many Parties? The Implications of Electoral Engineering in Post-Communist States, Erik Herron; * Hegel's Institutionalism Liberalism: Political Economy and Civil Society in the ""Philosophy of Right,"" Louis Hunt; * The Dissidents and the Antipolitical Ideology of Civil Society, Folke Lindahl; * Nation-Building in East Central Europe: Civic or Ethnic Majorities, Kathleen Dowley; * The Development of Political Parties: Russia in Perspective, Axel Hadenius; * The Political Elite in Hungary Through Transition, Jiri Lach; * The Negation of Communism in Central Europe? Andras Lanczi; * Why is Romania Different? A Perspective of the Economics Transition, Mircea T. Maniu; * Tradition and Modernity in the Romanian Transition, Marius Jucan."

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Norman A. Graham is Director of the Center for European and Russian/Eurasian Studies and Associate Dean of James Madison College, Michigan State University. Folke Lindahl is Professor of Political Science, James Madison College, Michigan State University.

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