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Capitalism and Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe: Assessing the Legacy of Communist Rule

Hardback

Main Details

Title Capitalism and Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe: Assessing the Legacy of Communist Rule
Authors and Contributors      Edited by Grzegorz Ekiert
Edited by Stephen E. Hanson
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:390
Dimensions(mm): Height 236,Width 159
Category/GenreEconomic systems and structures
ISBN/Barcode 9780521822954
ClassificationsDewey:321.80947
Audience
Professional & Vocational
Tertiary Education (US: College)
Illustrations 24 Tables, unspecified; 2 Maps; 6 Line drawings, unspecified

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 15 September 2003
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

This 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.