UID:
almafu_9960119507202883
Format:
1 online resource (xii, 350 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
0-511-88685-3
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0-511-62835-8
Series Statement:
Theories of institutional design
Content:
The authors of this book have developed a new and stimulating approach to the analysis of the transitions of Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Slovakia to democracy and a market economy. They integrate interdisciplinary theoretical work with elaborate empirical data on some of the most challenging events of the twentieth century. Three groups of phenomena and their causal interconnection are explored: the material legacies, constraints, habits and cognitive frameworks inherited from the past; the erratic configuration of new actors, and new spaces for action; and a new institutional order under which agency is institutionalized and the sustainability of institutions is achieved. The book studies the interrelations of national identities, economic interests, and political institutions with the transformation process, concentrating on issues of constitution making, democratic infrastructure, the market economy, and social policy.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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1. Introduction: agenda, agency, and the aims of Central East European transitions -- 2. Mapping Eastern Europe -- 3. Constitutional politics in Eastern Europe -- 4. Building and consolidating democracies -- 5. Building capitalism in Eastern Europe -- 6. Social policy transformation -- 7. Consolidation and the cleavages of ideology and identity -- 8. Conclusion: the unfinished project.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-47931-2
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-47386-1
Language:
English
URL:
Volltext
(lizenzpflichtig)
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511628351
