Capitalism and democracy in Central and Eastern Europe : assessing the legacy of Communist rule
This volume presents a shared effort to apply a general historical-institutionalist approach to the problem of assessing institutional change in the wake of communism's collapse in Europe. It brings together a number of leading senior and junior scholars with outstanding reputations as specialists in postcommunism and comparative politics to address central theoretical and empirical issues involved in the study of postcommunism. The authors address such questions as how historical 'legacies' of the communist regime be defined, how their impact can be measured in methodologically rigorous ways, and how the effects of temporal and spatial context can be taken into account in empirical research on the region. Taken as a whole, the volume makes an important contribution to the growing literature by utilizing the comparative historical method to study key problems of world politics
Print Book, English, 2003
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 2003
Congress
xiii, 375 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780521822954, 9780521529853, 0521822955, 0521529859
51178332
Time, space, and institutional change in central and Eastern Europe / Grzegorz Ekiert and Stephen E. Hanson
Accounting for postcommunist regime diversity: what counts as a good cause? / Herbert Kitschelt
Patterns of postcommunist transformation in central and Eastern Europe / Grzegorz Ekiert
Postcommunist spaces: a political geography approach to explaining postcommunist outcomes / Jeffrery S. Kopstein and David A. Reilly
Redeeming the past: communist successor parties after 1989 / Anna Grzymala-Busse
Leninist legacies and legacies of state socialism in postcommunist central Europe's constitutional development / Allison Stanger
Historical legacies, institutions, and the politics of social policy in Hungary and Poland, 1989-1999 / Tomasz Inglot
Postcommunist unemployment politics: historical legacies and the curious acceptance of job loss / Phineas Baxandall
"Past" dependence or path contingency? Institutional design in postcommunist financial systems / Juliet Johnson
Cultural legacies of state socialism: history making and cultural-political entrepreneurship in postcommunist Poland Russia / Jan Kubik
From area studies to contextualized comparisons / Paul Pierson