Postcommunist Transformation and the Social Sciences

Cross-Disciplinary Approaches

Häftad, Engelska, 2003

AvFrank Bönker,Klaus Müller,Andreas Pickel,Frank Bonker,Klaus Muller

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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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2003-08-05
Mått154 x 229 x 23 mm
Vikt454 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor304
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9780742518391

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Chapter 1 Cross-Disciplinary Approaches to Postcommunist Transformation: Context and AgendaChapter 2 Transformation as a Subject of Economic TheoryChapter 3 The Crisis of Transition as a State CrisisChapter 4 Trust in TransitionChapter 5 Networks, Social Capital and Leadership: Methodological Remarks on Approaches to the Study of Postcommunist TransformationChapter 6 Comparative Economics and the Study of Russian TransitionChapter 7 Talking the Talk and Walking the Walk: The Cultural and Institutional Effects of Western ModelsChapter 8 Global, Transnational, and National Change Mechanisms: Bridging International and Comparative Approaches to Postcommunist TransformationChapter 9 Economic Transformation, Moral Resources, and the State in Postsocialist Societies: On the Comparative Analysis of Transformation Paths in Central and Eastern EuropeChapter 10 Transformation Process, Modernization Patterns, and Collective Identities: Democratization, Nationalism, and Religion in Postcommunist Germany, Poland, and RussiaChapter 11 The Path-Dependence of TransitologyChapter 12 An Excursion to the Transitology Zoo: Comments on Béla GreskovitsChapter 13 Commentary on Béla Greskovits, "The Path-Dependence of Transitology"