Postsocialist Pathways: Transforming Politics and Property in East Central Europe
Is there a distinctly East European capitalism? This volume analyzes democratization and economic change in the postsocialist societies of East Central Europe. It demonstrates that the collapse of communism was not the same across the region and that the differences in how the pieces fell shaped the building blocks used for reconstructing political systems and restructuring economies in the region. Among the key concepts are the importance of social networks in the economies and of deliberative institutions in the polity that include the interests of subordinate groups in policymaking.
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Postsocialist Pathways: Transforming Politics and Property in East Central Europe
Is there a distinctly East European capitalism? This volume analyzes democratization and economic change in the postsocialist societies of East Central Europe. It demonstrates that the collapse of communism was not the same across the region and that the differences in how the pieces fell shaped the building blocks used for reconstructing political systems and restructuring economies in the region. Among the key concepts are the importance of social networks in the economies and of deliberative institutions in the polity that include the interests of subordinate groups in policymaking.
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Postsocialist Pathways: Transforming Politics and Property in East Central Europe

Postsocialist Pathways: Transforming Politics and Property in East Central Europe

Postsocialist Pathways: Transforming Politics and Property in East Central Europe

Postsocialist Pathways: Transforming Politics and Property in East Central Europe

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Is there a distinctly East European capitalism? This volume analyzes democratization and economic change in the postsocialist societies of East Central Europe. It demonstrates that the collapse of communism was not the same across the region and that the differences in how the pieces fell shaped the building blocks used for reconstructing political systems and restructuring economies in the region. Among the key concepts are the importance of social networks in the economies and of deliberative institutions in the polity that include the interests of subordinate groups in policymaking.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780521589741
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 02/28/1998
Series: Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 300
Product dimensions: 5.98(w) x 9.06(h) x 1.02(d)

Table of Contents

Part I. Extrication: 1. Remaking the political field: strategic interactions and contingent choices; Part II. Transformations: 2. The privatization debate: from plan to market or from plan to clan?; 3. Path dependence and privatization strategies; Part III. Deliberative Association: 4. Markets, states, and deliberative associations; 5. Restructuring networks in East European capitalism; 6. Enabling constraints: institutional sources of policy coherence; 7. Extended accountability; Bibliography.

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Janos Kornai

Originality, intellectual innovation, inspiration derived from sharp observation, and courageous theoretical generalizations—these are rare qualities in transition economics, and characteristic of Stark and Bruszt's book. Some of their propositions are certainly controversial, but that also helps to make Postsocialist Pathways exciting and thought-provoking reading.

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