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9783830519751
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&b&Hauptbeschreibung&/b&&br/&On 9 November 1989, the Berlin Wall was opened, signalling the beginning of the end of the communist regimes in Central and Eastern Europe. By 1990, free elections had been held in most countries in the region. Forty - in some cases fifty - years of communism had come to an end. However, the 'revolutions' of 1989 were not uniform processes: the starting points were different, the trajectories were different - and outside Central Europe even the outcomes of the transitions from communism were different. The fall of communism also caused the Soviet empire to crumble
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Contents; Foreword; List of Tables, Figures and Maps; Introduction: The 1989 'Revolutions'and their Effects 20 Years down the Road -Elisabeth Bakke and Ingo Peters; The 'triple transition' and the German Sonderfall; Outline of the book; References; The Politics and Economics of Post-Socialist Capitalismin Central East Europe -Claus Offe; The emergence of Post-Socialist Capitalismand its distinctive features; Economic performance of Post-Socialist Capitalism countries
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How (dis)satisfi ed are people with the results of economic andpolitical transformations that have taken place in their countries?Current trends, developments, and outcomes; References; Part 1 Transitions from Communism: Different Pathways - Different End Stations?; Regime Transition and Varieties of Post-Communism -Øyvind Østerud; Regime transition as modernization; Transition, structure and action; Transition from communism; Varieties of velvet revolutions; Imperial breakup and transitions from communism; Colour revolutions; The variety of post-communism; References
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Plausible Theory, Unexpected Result: The Rapid Democratic Consolidation in Central and Eastern Europe - Wolfgang MerkelThe Multilevel Model of Democratic Consolidation; Degrees of Consolidation in Eastern Europe; Level 1: Constitutional Consolidation; Level 2: Representative Consolidation; Level 3: Behavioural Consolidation and Veto Actors; Level 4: Democratic Consolidation of the Political Culture; Conclusion; The Democratic Quality of the Political Regimes in Eastern Europe; The Poverty of Theory; Modernity; Governance; External Actors; References
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Democratic Consolidation - A Matter of Shared Values. The Case of Bulgaria - Karin Hilmer Pedersen and Lars JohannsenInstitutional design and prospects for democratic consolidation; The formative years of Bulgaria's transition from Communism; Bulgarian democracy and its consolidation - judging the facts; The EU to the rescue?; Conclusions; References; Patterns of Stability and Performancein Post-Communist Hybrid Regimes -Jonas Linde and Joakim Ekman; The recent trend of hybridization; Transitions to democracy and autocracy; The crucial issue of stability; Post-communist regime traject
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Regime stability and performanceConcluding remarks; References; Part 2The Break-Up and Unifi cation of Statesin the Wake of the 1989 'Revolutions'; Germany: Revolution and Unification -Andreas Rödder; Causes of the German Revolution; Democratization: The Fall of the SED Dictatorship; Re-unifi cation: The national turning point of the German revolution; Alternatives to rapid re-unifi cation?; References; The Dissolution of the Soviet Union:Agency, Performance or Legitimacy? -Hermann Smith-Sivertsen; Historical backdrop; Legitimacy; Performance; Agency; Conclusions; References
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The 'Velvet Divorce' of Czechoslovakia, 1989-1992 -Jan Rychlík
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9783830527022
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Print version 20 Years since the Fall of the Berlin Wall : Transitions, State Break-Up and Democratic Politics in Central Europe and Germany
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