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Democratic and Capitalist Transitions in Eastern Europe

Lessons for the Social Sciences

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Editors:
  1. Michel Dobry

    1. Laboratoire d’Analyse des Systèmes Politiques, University Paris X-Nanterre, France

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Part of the book series: GeoJournal Library (GEJL, volume 55)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction: When Transitology Meets Simultaneous Transitions

    1. Introduction: When Transitology Meets Simultaneous Transitions

      • Michel Dobry
      Pages 1-15

  3. Transitology: The Impact of Eastern European Transformations

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-17
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    2. Rival Views of Postcommunist Market Society

      • Bela Greskovits
      Pages 19-47

    3. Paths, Choices, Outcomes, and Uncertainty

      • Michel Dobry
      Pages 49-70

    4. The Place of Place in Transitions to Democracy

      • Valerie Bunce
      Pages 71-90

    5. Anticipated Institutions: The Power Of Path-Finding Expectations

      • Michal Federowicz
      Pages 91-106

  4. Elites, Political Games, and the Consolidation of Democracy

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 107-107
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    2. Elite Power Games and Democratic Politics in Central and Eastern Europe

      • John Higley, Jan Pakulski
      Pages 109-129

    3. From Transition to Consolidation

      • Philippe C. Schmitter, Nicolas Guilhot
      Pages 131-146

    4. Constitutions and “Good Democracy” in Eastern Europe

      • Leonardo Morlino
      Pages 147-177

    5. The Transformation of State Socialism in Russia

      • David Lane
      Pages 181-196

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 263-277
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About this book

here ofexchange, and borrowing in debates between these disciplines, all the more so, as we shall see a little further on, as the analysis of the Central and East European transformations has also contributed to introduce into political science and sociology theoretical systematizations first formulated in economics. In addition to this opening up to the objects and theories of economics, the pseudo-"dilemma" ofsimultaneity produced, by a kind of feedback, another series of effects on transitology and the related research domains. Contrary to most expectations and predictions in the wake ofthe 1989 upheavals - affirmations that the "dilemmas", "problems" or "challenges" of the transitions in Central and Eastern Europe ought to have been dealt with and resolved one after the other in sequence, in the manner of the more or less idealized trajectories of Great Britain or Spain (trajectories significantly enough promoted, far beyond the circles of scholars, as a "model" of transition), andabove all, contrary to the assumption that superposing a radical economic transformation upon a transition to democracy would make the whole edifice thoroughly unworkable, unstable or dangerous - it must be stated clearly out that the two processes, in their "simultaneity", are not necessarily incompatible. This is one of the main findings stressed upon in several chapters of this book.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Laboratoire d’Analyse des Systèmes Politiques, University Paris X-Nanterre, France

    Michel Dobry

About the editor

Michel Dobry is Professor of Political Science at the University of Paris X, Nanterre, and Director of the Laboratoire d'Analyse des Systèmes Politiques (CNRS). His works have greatly contributed to the ongoing renewal of the analysis of processes of political crises and, more generally, critical political conjunctures.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Democratic and Capitalist Transitions in Eastern Europe

  • Book Subtitle: Lessons for the Social Sciences

  • Editors: Michel Dobry

  • Series Title: GeoJournal Library

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4162-8

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Nature B.V. 2000

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-6331-6Published: 30 June 2000

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-5813-1Published: 11 October 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-011-4162-8Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0924-5499

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-0072

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 277

  • Topics: Geography, general, Sociology, general, Political Science, Economic Growth, Social Sciences, general

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