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Author: Sabrina Petra Ramet
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-03-04
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 0429710550
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book tackles different aspects of the adaptive and transformative process in communist and post-communist systems in Eastern Europe, offering competing models, which locate the explanatory variable in different places and account for the unfolding of change in different ways.
Author: Richard Rose
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2009-01-21
Total Pages: 323
ISBN-13: 1134016697
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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: Alfio Cerami
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2009-10-29
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780230230262
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book adopts novel theoretical approaches to study the diverse welfare pathways that have evolved across Central and Eastern Europe since the end of communism. It highlights the role of explanatory factors such as micro-causal mechanisms, power politics, path departure, and elite strategies.
Author: David L Shambaugh
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2008-04-02
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780520934696
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFew issues affect the future of China--and hence all the nations that interact with China--more than the nature of its ruling party and government. In this timely study, David Shambaugh assesses the strengths and weaknesses, durability, adaptability, and potential longevity of China's Communist Party (CCP). He argues that although the CCP has been in a protracted state of atrophy, it has undertaken a number of adaptive measures aimed at reinventing itself and strengthening its rule. Shambaugh's investigation draws on a unique set of inner-Party documents and interviews, and he finds that China's Communist Party is resilient and will continue to retain its grip on power. Copub: Woodrow Wilson Center Press
Author: Sabrina Petra Ramet
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-06-17
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 9780367004491
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores specific facets of systemic change in a theoretical way for understanding the processes of transformation in the communist systems. It is useful for historians and others concerned with the collapse of the communist system.
Author: Iván Szelényi
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2019-11-26
Total Pages: 263
ISBN-13: 9004413197
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book intends to be a contribution to the “varieties of capitalism” paradigm. The theoretical background is Weber’s theory of legitimacy. Was communism ever “legitimate”? What kind of legitimacy claims were made in the transition from communism to capitalism? Central Europe was closer to the Western “liberal” model. Russia built capitalism in a patrimonial way. China followed its own unique way; some called it “socialism with Chinese characteristics”. Putin experiments with an innovation for post-communist capitalism. He confronts the “oligarchs” and reallocates property from those who challenge his political authority to old and new loyal ones. In conclusion, the central question is to what extent is “Putinism” a generic model for post-communist capitalism?
Author: Nadezhda Lebedeva
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2018-04-04
Total Pages: 424
ISBN-13: 3319726161
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book offers a comparative analysis of value and identity changes in several post-Soviet countries. In light of the tremendous economic, social and political changes in former communist states, the authors compare the values, attitudes and identities of different generations and cultural groups. Based on extensive empirical data, using quantitative and qualitative methods to study complex social identities, this book examines how intergenerational value and identity changes are linked to socio-economic and political development. Topics include the rise of nationalist sentiments, identity formation of ethnic and religious groups and minorities, youth identity formation and intergenerational value conflicts.
Author: M. Petrovic
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2015-12-04
Total Pages: 217
ISBN-13: 1137315350
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTracing both economic and political developments through the prism of history as well as more recent developments, this book casts new light on the role of communist history in setting the different regional successes in post-communist transition.
Author: Jeroen Huisman
Publisher:
Published: 2020-10-09
Total Pages: 492
ISBN-13: 9781013290909
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis open access book is a result of the first ever study of the transformations of the higher education institutional landscape in fifteen former USSR countries after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. It explores how the single Soviet model that developed across the vast and diverse territory of the Soviet Union over several decades has evolved into fifteen unique national systems, systems that have responded to national and global developments while still bearing some traces of the past. The book is distinctive as it presents a comprehensive analysis of the reforms and transformations in the region in the last 25 years; and it focuses on institutional landscape through the evolution of the institutional types established and developed in Pre-Soviet, Soviet and Post-Soviet time. It also embraces all fifteen countries of the former USSR, and provides a comparative analysis of transformations of institutional landscape across Post-Soviet systems. It will be highly relevant for students and researchers in the fields of higher education and and sociology, particularly those with an interest in historical and comparative studies. This work was published by Saint Philip Street Press pursuant to a Creative Commons license permitting commercial use. All rights not granted by the work's license are retained by the author or authors.
Author: Stanley A Renshon
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 2000-08
Total Pages: 341
ISBN-13: 0814775373
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMilitary force transforms political institutions, branches of government continually battle for power and position, leaders rise and leaders fall, but the key to the dynamics of these phenomena-the psychology of our political leaders, and that underlying most political processes-remains one of the most understudied aspects of political life. New political forces, such as the trend toward globalization, have resulted in an ever growing need to understand the relationship between psychology, culture and politics.
