Building a Trustworthy State in Post-Socialist Transition
Building a Trustworthy State in Post-Socialist Transition

Author: J. Kornai

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-12-25

Total Pages: 251

ISBN-13: 1403981108

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Building a Trustworthy State in Post-Socialist Transition considers the problems and prospects for creating trustworthy and reliable public institutions in the aftermath of the transition from socialism in Central and Eastern Europe. The volume draws on the experience of those who have lived through and studied the transition and contrasts their insights with those of generalist scholars who study government accountability and democracy. The contributions originated in the Collegium Budapest project on Honesty and Trust: Theory and Experience in the Light of the Post-Socialist Transition, organized by János Kornai and Susan Rose-Ackerman. A second volume entitled, Creating Social Trust in Post-Socialist Transition , is being published simultaneously.

Creating Social Trust in Post-Socialist Transition
Creating Social Trust in Post-Socialist Transition

Author: J. Kornai

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2004-06-25

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 1403980667

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Beneficial social and economic exchange relies on a certain level of trust. But trust is a delicate matter, not least in the former socialist countries where illegitimate behaviour by governments made distrust a habit. The chapters in this volume analyze the causes and the effects of the lack of social trust in post-socialist countries. The contributions originated in the Collegium Budapest project on Honesty and Trust: Theory and Experience in the Light of the Post-Socialist Transition. A second volume entitled, Building a Trustworthy State in Post-Socialist Transition , is being published simultaneously.

Socialism Vanquished, Socialism Challenged
Socialism Vanquished, Socialism Challenged

Author: Nina Bandelj

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2012-09-05

Total Pages: 269

ISBN-13: 0199996261

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Socialism Vanquished, Socialism Challenged examines the twenty-year aftermath of the 1989 assaults on established, state-sponsored socialism in the former Soviet bloc and in China. Editors Nina Bandelj and Dorothy J. Solinger bring together prominent experts on Eastern Europe and China to examine the respective trajectories of political, economic, and social transformations that unfolded in these two areas, while also comparing the changes that ensued within the two regions.

Rotten States?
Rotten States?

Author: Leslie Holmes

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 2006-06-08

Total Pages: 444

ISBN-13: 9780822337928

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DIVAnalyzes the scale, location, makeup, causes, and consequences of corruption in the post-communist world./div

Reconfiguring Institutions Across Time and Space
Reconfiguring Institutions Across Time and Space

Author: D. Galvan

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2007-03-19

Total Pages: 261

ISBN-13: 0230603068

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This book examines how novel institutional forms emerge when actors creatively reinterpret and reconfigure imported or imposed institutional models, using case studies from East Asia, the Middle East, Africa and Latin America.

Governance Beyond the Law
Governance Beyond the Law

Author: Abel Polese

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2019-03-29

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 3030050394

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This volume explores the continuous line from informal and unrecorded practices all the way up to illegal and criminal practices, performed and reproduced by both individuals and organisations. The authors classify them as alternative, subversive forms of governance performed by marginal (and often invisible) peripheral actors. The volume studies how the informal and the extra-legal unfold transnationally and, in particular, how and why they have been/are being progressively criminalized and integrated into the construction of global and local dangerhoods; how the above-mentioned phenomena are embedded into a post-liberal security order; and whether they shape new states of exception and generate moral panic whose ultimate function is regulatory, disciplinary and one of crafting practices of political ordering.

Understanding Energy Security in Central and Eastern Europe
Understanding Energy Security in Central and Eastern Europe

Author: Wojciech Ostrowski

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-04-09

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 1317311043

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The purpose of this book is to move beyond the approach which views energy as a purely geopolitical tool of the Russian state and assumes a 'one size fits all' approach to energy security in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). It argues that in order to fully understand Russian involvement in the regional energy complex, the CEE-Russian energy relationship should be analysed in the context of the political and economic transitions that Russia and the CEE states underwent. The chapters on individual countries in the book demonstrate that, although Russia has and will continue to play a substantial role in the CEE energy sector, the scope of its possible influence has been overstated.

How Russia Really Works
How Russia Really Works

Author: Alena V. Ledeneva

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2014-01-15

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 0801470056

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During the Soviet era, blat—the use of personal networks for obtaining goods and services in short supply and for circumventing formal procedures—was necessary to compensate for the inefficiencies of socialism. The collapse of the Soviet Union produced a new generation of informal practices. In How Russia Really Works, Alena V. Ledeneva explores practices in politics, business, media, and the legal sphere in Russia in the 1990s—from the hiring of firms to create negative publicity about one's competitors, to inventing novel schemes of tax evasion and engaging in "alternative" techniques of contract and law enforcement. Ledeneva discovers ingenuity, wit, and vigor in these activities and argues that they simultaneously support and subvert formal institutions. They enable corporations, the media, politicians, and businessmen to operate in the post-Soviet labyrinth of legal and practical constraints but consistently undermine the spirit, if not the letter, of the law. The "know-how" Ledeneva describes in this book continues to operate today and is crucial to understanding contemporary Russia.

Corporate Social Responsibility and the Shaping of Global Public Policy
Corporate Social Responsibility and the Shaping of Global Public Policy

Author: M. Hirschland

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2006-12-11

Total Pages: 213

ISBN-13: 0230601774

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This book introduces readers to the dynamic networks made up of businesses, NGOs and multilateral organizations that, for better and for worse, define corporate social responsibility (CSR) today. It examines the work of these CSR networks that are taking on the "heavy-lifting" of global governance.