Postcommunist Transformation and the Social Sciences Cross-Disciplinary Approaches

by Bönker, Frank; Müller, Klaus; Pickel, Andreas; Bunce, Valerie; Csaba, László; Grancelli, Bruno; Greskovits, Béla; Jacoby, Wade; Offe, Claus; Poznanski, Kazimierz Z.; Raiser, Martin; Rutland, Peter; Spohn, Willfried; Tatur, Melanie; True, Jacqui

• ISBN13: 9780742518384
• ISBN10: 0742518388
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-06-03
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

Postcommunist Transformation and the Social Sciences 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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
Cross-Disciplinary Approaches to Postcommunist Transformation: Context and Agenda	1	(38)
Frank Bonker
Klaus Muller
Andreas Pickel
Transformation as a Subject of Economic Theory	39	(16)
Laszlo Csaba
The Crisis of Transition as a State Crisis	55	(22)
Kazimierz Z. Poznanski
Trust in Transition	77	(20)
Martin Raiser
Networks, Social Capital, and Leadership: Methodological Remarks on Approaches to the Study of Postcommunist Transformation	97	(14)
Bruno Grancelli
Comparative Economics and the Study of the Russian Transition	111	(18)
Peter Rutland
Talking the Talk and Walking the Walk: The Cultural and Institutional Effects of Western Models	129	(24)
Wade Jacoby
Global, Transnational, and National Change Mechanisms: Bridging International and Comparative Approaches to Postcommunist Transformation	153	(22)
Andreas Pickel
Jacqui True
Economic Transformation, Moral Resources, and the State in Postsocialist Societies: On the Comparative Analysis of Transformation Paths in Central and Eastern Europe	175	(24)
Melanie Tatur
Transformation Process, Modernization Patterns, and Collective Identities: Democratization, Nationalism, and Religion in Postcommunist Germany, Poland, and Russia	199	(20)
Willfried Spohn
The Path-Dependence of Transitology	219	(30)
Bela Greskovits
An Excursion to the Transitology Zoo: Comments on Bela Greskovits	249	(4)
Claus Offe
Commentary on Bela Greskovits, ``The Path-Dependence of Transitology''	253	(4)
Valerie Bunce
References	257	(34)
Index	291	(4)
About the Contributors	295