Beyond Post Communist Studies
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Beyond Post Communist Studies
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Author : Terry D. Clark
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-07-08
Beyond Post Communist Studies written by Terry D. Clark and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-08 with History categories.
This book makes the case that several East Central European countries have emerged as fully consolidated democracies. As such, they may be integrated into the mainstream of political science research, and not consigned forever to a transitional category encompassing countries that are now fully democracies as well as some that are not democratic at all. The author outlines the steps of another transition - from post-communist studies to political science research. He demonstrates how institutionalist, or rational choice, theories can be applied to the analysis of political processes in the successfully democratized countries, and proposes a new research agenda for political scientists studying the region. The results of this work can enrich political science as well as our understanding of both democracy and the polities of contemporary Eastern Europe.
Beyond Post Communist Studies
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Author : Terry Dee Clark
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
Beyond Post Communist Studies written by Terry Dee Clark and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Europe, Eastern categories.
Beyond Stalinism
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Author : Ronald J. Hill
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-05-01
Beyond Stalinism written by Ronald J. Hill and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-01 with Political Science categories.
First Published in 1992. The present collection of essays brings together the concepts of change and development, by using the concept of evolution to explore various forms of change in the communist and 'post-communist' world. The author's experience of living in the provinces of the Soviet Union later persuaded them of the inappropriateness of at least a rigid application of the concept of totalitarianism. This title will also satiate the further interest of the interaction between 'capitalism' (or liberal democracy) and 'communism', particularly the impact of capitalism's technical innovations on some of communism's basic principles of rule.
Beyond Soviet Studies
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Author : Daniel Orlovsky
language : en
Publisher: Woodrow Wilson Center Press
Release Date : 1995-02
Beyond Soviet Studies written by Daniel Orlovsky and has been published by Woodrow Wilson Center Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-02 with Business & Economics categories.
They offer constructive criticisms of the field and set out research questions for an uncertain future.
The Anatomy Of Post Communist Regimes
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Author : Bálint Magyar
language : en
Publisher: Central European University Press
Release Date : 2021-02-20
The Anatomy Of Post Communist Regimes written by Bálint Magyar and has been published by Central European University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-02-20 with Political Science categories.
Offering a single, coherent framework of the political, economic, and social phenomena that characterize post-communist regimes, this is the most comprehensive work on the subject to date. Focusing on Central Europe, the post-Soviet countries and China, the study provides a systematic mapping of possible post-communist trajectories. At exploring the structural foundations of post-communist regime development, the work discusses the types of state, with an emphasis on informality and patronalism; the variety of actors in the political, economic, and communal spheres; the ways autocrats neutralize media, elections, etc. The analysis embraces the color revolutions of civil resistance (as in Georgia and in Ukraine) and the defensive mechanisms of democracy and autocracy; the evolution of corruption and the workings of “relational economy”; an analysis of China as “market-exploiting dictatorship”; the sociology of “clientage society”; and the instrumental use of ideology, with an emphasis on populism. Beyond a cataloguing of phenomena—actors, institutions, and dynamics of post-communist democracies, autocracies, and dictatorships—Magyar and Madlovics also conceptualize everything as building blocks to a larger, coherent structure: a new language for post-communist regimes. While being the most definitive book on the topic, the book is nevertheless written in an accessible style suitable for both beginners who wish to understand the logic of post-communism and scholars who are interested in original contributions to comparative regime theory. The book is equipped with QR codes that link to www.postcommunistregimes.com, which contains interactive, 3D supplementary material for teaching.
Can The Recent Experiences Of The Formerly Communist States Be Compared In Any Meaningful Fashion
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Author : Christopher Selbach
language : en
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date : 2007-08-25
Can The Recent Experiences Of The Formerly Communist States Be Compared In Any Meaningful Fashion written by Christopher Selbach and has been published by GRIN Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-08-25 with categories.
Essay from the year 2001 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Region: Russia, grade: 1.3 (A), University of Leeds (POLIS), 28 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: The collapse of communist systems in Europe and the break-up of the Soviet Union have opened a completely new field for political, economic and social study: post-communism. Since then, several efforts have been made to explain the quite different outcomes of what has often been regarded as a common starting point. This cannot surprise: the concept of postcommunism itself implies that the similarities between formerly communist countries overweigh their differences, and a comparative study is hoped to uncover the set of theories that could be applicable to at least most of the region, if not beyond that. But has this approach been successful so far? Or do the current results rather suggest that post-communist studies after merely ten years of existence are lacking behind twenty years already, as it has been put provocatively for the political field? Is there a useful way of comparing the experiences of the formerly communist states, or might such an approach be initially a fraud? This essay tries to answer these questions in the following way: first of all, it gives an overview over post-communist experiences, in order to come, secondly, to a characterisation of the phenomenon. Thirdly, the main theoretical approaches on the subject that are based on comparison are discussed. As a conclusion of these comparative studies, the author argues that post-communism can only be generalised as a phenomenon if seen as an experience of, and challenge to, collective identity.
Narratives Unbound
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Author : Balázs Trencsényi
language : en
Publisher: Central European University Press
Release Date : 2007-07-15
Narratives Unbound written by Balázs Trencsényi and has been published by Central European University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-07-15 with History categories.
The first work that covers the post-Communist development of historical studies in six Eastern European countries: Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and Slovakia. A uniquely critical and qualitative analysis from a comparative and critical perspective, written by scholars from the region itself. Focusing on the first post-Communist decade, 1989–1999, the book offers a longer-term perspective that includes the immediate 'prehistory' of that momentous decade as well as its 'posthistoire'. The authors capture the spirit of 1989, that heady mix of elation, surprise, determination, and hope: l'ivresse du possible. This was the paradoxical beginning of Eastern European post-Communism: ushered in by 'anti-Utopian' revolutions, and slowly finding its course towards a bureaucratic, imitative, challenging, and anachronistic restoration of a capitalism that had changed almost beyond recognition when it had mutated into the negative double of Communism. Each individual chapter has numerous and detailed notes and references.
Post Communist Nostalgia
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Author : Maria Todorova
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2012
Post Communist Nostalgia written by Maria Todorova and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with History categories.
Although the end of the Cold War was greeted with great enthusiasm by people in the East and the West, the ensuing social and especially economic changes did not always result in the hoped-for improvements in people's lives. This led to widespread disillusionment that can be observed today all across Eastern Europe. Not simply a longing for security, stability, and prosperity, this nostalgia is also a sense of loss regarding a specific form of sociability. Even some of those who opposed communism express a desire to invest their new lives with renewed meaning and dignity. Among the younger generation, it surfaces as a tentative yet growing curiosity about the recent past. In this volume scholars from multiple disciplines explore the various fascinating aspects of this nostalgic turn by analyzing the impact of generational clusters, the rural-urban divide, gender differences, and political orientation. They argue persuasively that this nostalgia should not be seen as a wish to restore the past, as it has otherwise been understood, but instead it should be recognized as part of a more complex healing process and an attempt to come to terms both with the communist era as well as the new inequalities of the post-communist era.
Post Communist Regime Change
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Author : Jørgen Møller
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013-04-12
Post Communist Regime Change written by Jørgen Møller and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-12 with Former communist countries categories.
This book seeks to explain the advent of this post-communist tripartition and elucidate and explain the political pathways of 24 post-communist countries in the period 1990-2005.
Stubborn Structures
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Author : Bálint Magyar
language : en
Publisher: Central European University Press
Release Date : 2019-04-10
Stubborn Structures written by Bálint Magyar and has been published by Central European University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-10 with Political Science categories.
The editor of this book has brought together contributions designed to capture the essence of post-communist politics in East-Central Europe and Eurasia. Rather than on the surface structures of nominal democracies, the nineteen essays focus on the informal, often intentionally hidden, disguised and illicit understandings and arrangements that penetrate formal institutions. These phenomena often escape even the best-trained outside observers, familiar with the concepts of established democracies. Contributors to this book share the view that understanding post-communist politics is best served by a framework that builds from the ground up, proceeding from a fundamental social context. The book aims at facilitating a lexical convergence; in the absence of a robust vocabulary for describing and discussing these often highly complex informal phenomena, the authors wish to advance a new terminology of post-communist regimes. Instead of a finite dictionary, a kind of conceptual cornucopia is offered. The resulting variety reflects a larger harmony of purpose that can significantly expand the understanding the “real politics” of post-communist regimes. Countries analyzed from a variety of aspects, comparatively or as single case studies, include Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Hungary, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, and Ukraine.