{"product_id":"capitalism-and-democracy-in-central-and-eastern-europe-assessing-the-legacy-of-communist-rule-hardback-9780521822954","title":"Capitalism and Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe; Assessing the Legacy of Communist Rule (Hardback) 9780521822954","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eCapitalism and Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eAssessing the Legacy of Communist Rule\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis book addresses the problem of assessing institutional change in the wake of communism's collapse in Europe.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eGrzegorz Ekiert (Edited by), Stephen E. Hanson (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521822954, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 15 September 2003\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e390 pages, 6 b\/w illus.  2 maps  24 tables\u003cbr\u003e23.6 x 15.9 x 3 cm, 0.74 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAbout the contributors\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Introduction Grzegorz Ekiert and Stephen E. Hanson\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Postcommunist Transformations and the Role of Historical Legacies: 1. Time, space and institutional change in central and eastern Europe Grzegorz Ekiert and Stephen E. Hanson\u003cbr\u003e 2. Accounting for postcommunist regime diversity: what counts as a good cause? Herbert Kitschelt\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Postcommunist Europe: Continuity and Change in Regional Patterns: 3. Patterns of postcommunist transformation in central and eastern Europe Grzegorz Ekiert\u003cbr\u003e 4. Postcommunist spaces: a political geography approach to explaining postcommunist outcomes Jeffrey S. Kopstein and David A. Reilly\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Institutional Redesign and Historical Legacies: Case Studies: 5. Redeeming the past: communist successor parties after 1989 Anna Grzymala-Busse\u003cbr\u003e 6. Leninist legacies and legacies of state socialism in postcommunist central Europe's constitutional development Allison Stanger\u003cbr\u003e 7. Historical legacies, institutions and the politics of social policy in Hungary and Poland, 1989–99 Tomasz Inglot\u003cbr\u003e 8. Postcommunist unemployment politics: historical legacies and the curious acceptance of job loss Phineas Baxandall\u003cbr\u003e 9. 'Past' dependence or path contingency? Institutional design in postcommunist financial systems Juliet Johnson\u003cbr\u003e 10. Cultural legacies of state socialism: history making and cultural-political entrepreneurship in postcommunist Poland and Russia Jan Kubik\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue: from area studies to contextualized comparisons Paul Pierson\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Political structure \u0026amp; processes [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Political structure \u0026amp; processes\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Political%20structure%20\u0026amp;%20processes%20%5BJPH%5D%22\"\u003eJPH\u003c\/a\u003e], Political science \u0026amp; theory [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Political science \u0026amp; theory\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Political%20science%20\u0026amp;%20theory%20%5BJPA%5D%22\"\u003eJPA\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46265175310616,"sku":"9780521822954","price":83.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521822954i.jpg?v=1692020193","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/capitalism-and-democracy-in-central-and-eastern-europe-assessing-the-legacy-of-communist-rule-hardback-9780521822954","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}