This book examines the problems and issues facing formerly communist states as they seek to develop a new democratic political order and a market economy. Studies of Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia provide detailed empirical data concerning constitution making, the shaping of democratic institutions, marketization of the economy, and social policy. This new research is then linked to innovative theoretical material to offer a unique assessment of the difficulties of creating a new political order in the region.
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This book examines the problems and issues facing formerly communist states as they seek to develop a new democratic political order and a market economy. Studies of Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia provide detailed empirical data concerning constitution making, the shaping of democratic institutions, marketization of the economy, and social policy. This new research is then linked to innovative theoretical material to offer a unique assessment of the difficulties of creating a new political order in the region.
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The breakdown of the European regimes of state socialism and the subsequent efforts to establish a new social order in its former domain are arguably the most consequential, as well as most fascinating, historical events in the authors' adult lifetime. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
massive labor shedding, retreat from the economy, unrepresented voters, categorical conflicts, external minorities, transformative interests, reform constituency, extrication process, mental residues, electoral formula, fraternal help, constructive vote, founding elections, polarized pluralism, standard retirement age, wage taxation, social protection systems, electoral market, voucher privatization, living minimum, monetary overhang, budgetary subsidies, internal minorities, internal minority Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
National Assembly, East European, Eastern Europe, Civic Forum, Federal Assembly, World War, National Council, Soviet Union, Slovak Republic, Chamber of Deputies, Union of Democratic Forces, Christian Democratic Movement, Slovak National Party, Warsaw Pact, Central Europe, West European, Czech Charter, Civic Democratic Party, Democratic Slovakia, State Property Agency, Commercial Code, Bulgarian Agrarian National Union, Business Code, Christian Democratic Union, Federal Republic New!
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The breakdown of the European regimes of state socialism and the subsequent efforts to establish a new social order in its former domain are arguably the most consequential, as well as most fascinating, historical events in the authors' adult lifetime. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
massive labor shedding, retreat from the economy, unrepresented voters, categorical conflicts, external minorities, transformative interests, reform constituency, extrication process, mental residues, electoral formula, fraternal help, constructive vote, founding elections, polarized pluralism, standard retirement age, wage taxation, social protection systems, electoral market, voucher privatization, living minimum, monetary overhang, budgetary subsidies, internal minorities, internal minority Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
National Assembly, East European, Eastern Europe, Civic Forum, Federal Assembly, World War, National Council, Soviet Union, Slovak Republic, Chamber of Deputies, Union of Democratic Forces, Christian Democratic Movement, Slovak National Party, Warsaw Pact, Central Europe, West European, Czech Charter, Civic Democratic Party, Democratic Slovakia, State Property Agency, Commercial Code, Bulgarian Agrarian National Union, Business Code, Christian Democratic Union, Federal Republic New!
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- Eastern Europe in Revolution by Ivo Banac on 5 pages
- Constitution Making in Eastern Europe (Woodrow Wilson Center Press) by Professor A.E. Dick Howard on 5 pages
- The Emergence of Market Economies in Eastern Europe by Christopher Clague in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Competition Policy (Studies in the UK Economy) by Paul Bennett in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Czech Republic and Economic Transition in Eastern Europe by Jan Svejnar in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Post-Communist Democratization: Political Discourses Across Thirteen Countries (Theories of Institutional Design) by John S. Dryzek in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- The Weakness of Civil Society in Post-Communist Europe by Marc Morjé Howard on page 4, and Back Matter
- Judicial Review in New Democracies: Constitutional Courts in Asian Cases by Tom Ginsburg on page 257, and Back Matter
- Democratic Government in Poland: Constitutional Politics Since 1989 by George Sanford on page 68, and Back Matter
- Paradigms of Social Change: Modernizaton, Development, Transformation, Evolution by Waltraud Schelkle on page 164
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