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Author | : Donnacha O Beachain |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2012-06-25 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1136299815 |
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This book examines how membership of the European Union has affected life in the ten former communist countries of Eastern Europe that are now members of the European Union. For each country, political, economic and social changes are described and discussed, together with people’s perceptions of the effects of EU membership. Overall, the book shows how the benefits of EU membership have differed between different countries, and how perceptions about the benefits also differ and have changed over time.
Author | : Eva Polonska-Kimunguyi |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 317 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Communism |
ISBN | : 9788373835443 |
Download Transitions Revisited Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"This book ... examines the political, economic and social transformations that have taken place in the post-communist era. In particular, it assesses the achievements of countries in the region in areas such as democracy, human rights, freedom of speech and market economy, as well as their integration into the European Union. The book also highlights the challenges that still lie ahead of CEE countries in their new roles, in Europe and beyond."--publisher website.
Author | : Mr.James Roaf |
Publisher | : International Monetary Fund |
Total Pages | : 72 |
Release | : 2014-10-17 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1498332188 |
Download Regional Economic Issues--Special Report 25 Years of Transition Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The past 25 years have seen a dramatic transformation in Europe’s former communist countries, resulting in their reintegration with the global economy, and, in most cases, major improvements in living standards. But the task of building full market economies has been difficult and protracted. Liberalization of trade and prices came quickly, but institutional reforms—such as governance reform, competition policy, privatization and enterprise restructuring—often faced opposition from vested interests. The results of the first years of transition were uneven. All countries suffered high inflation and major recessions as prices were freed and old economic linkages broke down. But the scale of output losses and the time taken for growth to return and inflation to be brought under control varied widely. Initial conditions and external factors played a role, but policies were critical too. Countries that undertook more front-loaded and bold reforms were rewarded with faster recovery and income convergence. Others were more vulnerable to the crises that swept the region in the wake of the 1997 Asia crisis.
Author | : Andrei Shleifer |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780674015821 |
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This book offers a firsthand glimpse into the intellectual challenges that Russia's turbulent transition generated. It deals with many of the most important reforms, from Gorbachev's half-hearted "perestroika," to the mass privatization program, to the efforts to build legal and regulatory institutions of a market economy.
Author | : Sharon L. Wolchik |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780742540682 |
Download Central and East European Politics Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This long-needed text explores the other half of Europe, the new and future members of the EU along with the problems and potential they bring to the region and to the world stage. Clear and comprehensive, it offers an authoritative and up-to-date analysis of the transformations and realities in Central and Eastern Europe, the Baltics, and Ukraine. The book presents a set of comparative country case studies as well as thematic chapters on key issues, including European Union and NATO expansion, the economic transition and its social ramifications, the role of women, persistent problems of ethnicity and nationalism, and political reform. For students and specialists alike, this book will be an invaluable resource on the newly democratizing states of Europe.
Author | : Grigore Pop-Eleches |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2017-05-09 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1400887828 |
Download Communism's Shadow Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
It has long been assumed that the historical legacy of Soviet Communism would have an important effect on post-communist states. However, prior research has focused primarily on the institutional legacy of communism. Communism's Shadow instead turns the focus to the individuals who inhabit post-communist countries, presenting a rigorous assessment of the legacy of communism on political attitudes. Post-communist citizens hold political, economic, and social opinions that consistently differ from individuals in other countries. Grigore Pop-Eleches and Joshua Tucker introduce two distinct frameworks to explain these differences, the first of which focuses on the effects of living in a post-communist country, and the second on living through communism. Drawing on large-scale research encompassing post-communist states and other countries around the globe, the authors demonstrate that living through communism has a clear, consistent influence on why citizens in post-communist countries are, on average, less supportive of democracy and markets and more supportive of state-provided social welfare. The longer citizens have lived through communism, especially as adults, the greater their support for beliefs associated with communist ideology—the one exception being opinions regarding gender equality. A thorough and nuanced examination of communist legacies' lasting influence on public opinion, Communism's Shadow highlights the ways in which political beliefs can outlast institutional regimes.
Author | : Balázs Trencsényi |
Publisher | : Central European University Press |
Total Pages | : 512 |
Release | : 2007-07-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 6155211299 |
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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.
Author | : Vladimir Tismaneanu |
Publisher | : Central European University Press |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 2021-05-25 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9633864062 |
Download One Hundred Years of Communist Experiments Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Why has communism’s humanist quest for freedom and social justice without exception resulted in the reign of terror and lies? The authors of this collective volume address this urgent question covering the one hundred years since Lenin’s coup brought the first communist regime to power in St. Petersburg, Russia in November 1917. The first part of the volume is dedicated to the varieties of communist fantasies of salvation, and the remaining three consider how communist experiments over many different times and regions attempted to manage economics, politics, as well as society and culture. Although each communist project was adapted to the situation of the country where it operated, the studies in this volume find that because of its ideological nature, communism had a consistent penchant for totalitarianism in all of its manifestations. This book is also concerned with the future. As the world witnesses a new wave of ideological authoritarianism and collectivistic projects, the authors of the nineteen essays suggest lessons from their analyses of communism’s past to help better resist totalitarian projects in the future.
Author | : Richard Rose |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 323 |
Release | : 2009-01-21 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1134016697 |
Download Understanding Post-Communist Transformation Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The fall of the Berlin Wall launched the transformation of government, economy and society across half of Europe and the former Soviet Union. This text deals with the process of change in former Communist bloc countries, ten of which have become new European Union (EU) democracies while Russia and her neighbours remain burdened by their Soviet legacy. Drawing on more than a hundred public opinion surveys from the New Europe Barometer, the text compares how ordinary people have coped with the stresses and opportunities of transforming Communist societies into post-Communist societies and the resulting differences between peoples in the new EU member states and Russia. Subjects covered by Understanding Post-Communist Transformation include: Stresses and opportunities of economic transformation Social capital and the development of civil society Elections and the complexities of party politics The challenges for the EU of raising standards of democratic governance Differences between Russia’s and the West’s interpretation of political life Written by one of the world's most renowned authorities on this subject, this text is ideal for courses on transition, post-communism, democratization and Russian and Eastern European history and politics.
Author | : Barbara Jean Merz |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
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They are also sharing knowledge and skills learned or honed abroad."--BOOK JACKET.