Postcommunist Transformation and the Social Sciences
Cross-Disciplinary Approaches
Postcommunist Transformation and the Social Sciences
Cross-Disciplinary Approaches
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This book is a methodologically self-conscious and intellectually ambitious effort to advance the social science debate on postcommunist transformation beyond the limitations of its first decade. Offering theoretically innovative and empirically current analyses of fundamental economic, cultural, and political problems of systemic change and reform in central and Eastern Europe, the authors broaden and deepen the research agenda by developing a set of interrelated approaches that are cross-disciplinary, sociologically informed, historically comparative, and global.
The book's major substantive themes revolve around problems of postcommunist socioeconomic transformations. Specifically, the book explores postcommunist systemic change, the role of religion and collective identity, the significance of trust and economic culture, patterns of state-economy interactions in enterprise restructuring, the context of EU expansion, the strengths and weaknesses of economic theory and neoliberal doctrine, and the history of ideas in the postcommunist transformation debate. Bringing together leading experts in the field to illustrate the fruitfulness of multidisciplinary analysis in understanding socioeconomic transitions, this work will be valuable for economists, sociologists, and political scientists alike.
Table of Contents
Chapter 2 Transformation as a Subject of Economic Theory
Chapter 3 The Crisis of Transition as a State Crisis
Chapter 4 Trust in Transition
Chapter 5 Networks, Social Capital and Leadership: Methodological Remarks on Approaches to the Study of Postcommunist Transformation
Chapter 6 Comparative Economics and the Study of Russian Transition
Chapter 7 Talking the Talk and Walking the Walk: The Cultural and Institutional Effects of Western Models
Chapter 8 Global, Transnational, and National Change Mechanisms: Bridging International and Comparative Approaches to Postcommunist Transformation
Chapter 9 Economic Transformation, Moral Resources, and the State in Postsocialist Societies: On the Comparative Analysis of Transformation Paths in Central and Eastern Europe
Chapter 10 Transformation Process, Modernization Patterns, and Collective Identities: Democratization, Nationalism, and Religion in Postcommunist Germany, Poland, and Russia
Chapter 11 The Path-Dependence of Transitology
Chapter 12 An Excursion to the Transitology Zoo: Comments on Béla Greskovits
Chapter 13 Commentary on Béla Greskovits, "The Path-Dependence of Transitology"
Product details
| Published | 03 Jun 2002 |
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| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 304 |
| ISBN | 9780742518384 |
| Imprint | Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
| Dimensions | 236 x 159 mm |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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