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Transforming Post-Communist Political Economies

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Size: 528 pages, 6 x 9

Publication Year:1998

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Joan M. Nelson, Charles Tilly, and Lee Walker, Editors; Task Force on Economies in Transition, National Research Council
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This ground-breaking new volume focuses on the interaction between political, social, and economic change in Central and Eastern Europe and the New Independent States. It includes a wide selection of analytic papers, thought-provoking essays by leading scholars in diverse fields, ...
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Table of Contents
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Front Matter	i-xiv
Introduction	1-10	(skim)
Understanding Economic Change	11-18	(skim)
Underground Activity and Institutional Change: Productive, Protective, and Predatory Behavior in Transition Economies	19-34	(skim)
1 Property Rights in Transition Economies: A Commentary on What Economists Know	35-60	(skim)
2 Rethinking the Theory of Economic Policy: Some Implications of the New Institutionalism	61-79	(skim)
3 Missed Markets: Implications for Economic Behavior and Institutional Change	80-101	(skim)
4 Fuzzy Property: Rights, Power, and Identity in Transylvania's Decollectivization	102-117	(skim)
5 Rule Evasion in Transitional Russia	118-130	(skim)
Restructing Production Without Market Infrastructure	131-155	(skim)
6 Learning in Networks: Enterprise Behavior in the Former Soviet Union and Contemporary Russia	156-176	(skim)
7 Formal Employment and Survival Strategies After Communism	177-202	(skim)
8 Observations on the Speed of Transition in Russia: Prices and Entry	203-222	(skim)
9 Social Policy and the Labor Market in Russia During Transition	223-244	(skim)
Social Costs, Social-Sector Reforms, and Politics in Post-Communism Transformations	245-271	(skim)
10 Reform of the Welfare Sector in the Post-Communist Countries: A Normative Approach	272-298	(skim)
11 Social Policy Challenges and Dilemmas in Ex-Socialist Systems	299-321	(skim)
12 Health Reform in Russia and Central Asia	322-350	(skim)
13 Vulnerable Populations in Central Europe	351-369	(skim)
14 Pension Reform in the Post-Communist Transition Economics	370-384	(skim)
15 From Safety Nets to Social Policy: Lessons for the Transition Economies for the Developing Countries	385-400	(skim)
Democracy, Social Change, and Economies in Transition	401-410	(skim)
16 The State in a Market Economy	411-431	(skim)
17 The State as an Ensemble of Economic Actors: Some Inferences from China's Trajectory of Change	432-452	(skim)
18 Possible Future Directions for Economies in Transition	453-470	(skim)
Research Priorities for Post-Communist Economies	471-490	(skim)
Appendix: Further Reading	491-496	(skim)
Index	497-514	(skim)

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This ground-breaking new volume focuses on the interaction between political, social, and economic change in Central and Eastern Europe and the New Independent States. It includes a wide selection of analytic papers, thought-provoking essays by leading scholars in diverse fields, and an agenda for future research. It integrates work on the micro and macro levels of the economy and provides a broad overview of the transition process.
This volume broadens the current intellectual and policy debate concerning the historic transition now taking place from a narrow concern with purely economic factors to the dynamics of political and social change. It questions the assumption that the post-communist economies are all following the same path and that they will inevitably develop into replicas of economies in the advanced industrial West. It challenges accepted thinking and promotes the utilization of new methods and perspectives.

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"This is a valuable supplemental reading for any class on social change, or political or economic sociology. ...this book is a very useful case study on transforming political economies, and can add much to our understanding of the change process."
-- Teaching Sociology, April 2002

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