Human Development Report For Central And Eastern Europe And The Cis 1999

Author : United Nations Development Programme. Regional Bureau for Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Political Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105021835397

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Human Development Report for Central and Eastern Europe and the CIS, 1999 by United Nations Development Programme. Regional Bureau for Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States Pdf

The countries of the former Soviet Union (FSU) and central and eastern Europe (CEE) are part of the new global consensus on the importance of a system of government based on a pluralistic democracy, and the need for an economic system which combines efficiency and growth with equity and human security. Almost all the CEE and Baltic countries have democratically elected regimes and in several there are open press media, civil institutions and more respect for individual liberty and human rights. In the economic area, Slovenia and Poland have recouped their losses and made plans for the future. Similarly, while the Czech Republic, Hungary and the Baltic States have to contend with numerous difficulties and uncertainties, they have made progress towards creating efficient economies.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Human Development Report
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780195215625

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Human Development Report 1999 by Anonim Pdf

Author : United Nations Development Programme. Regional Bureau for Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Political Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105021509810

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Human Development Report for Central and Eastern Europe and the CIS, 1999 by United Nations Development Programme. Regional Bureau for Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States Pdf

The countries of the former Soviet Union (FSU) and central and eastern Europe (CEE) are part of the new global consensus on the importance of a system of government based on a pluralistic democracy, and the need for an economic system which combines efficiency and growth with equity and human security. Almost all the CEE and Baltic countries have democratically elected regimes and in several there are open press media, civil institutions and more respect for individual liberty and human rights. In the economic area, Slovenia and Poland have recouped their losses and made plans for the future. Similarly, while the Czech Republic, Hungary and the Baltic States have to contend with numerous difficulties and uncertainties, they have made progress towards creating efficient economies.

Author : Maria Petmesidou,Christos Papatheodoru
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781848137554

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Poverty and Social Deprivation in the Mediterranean by Maria Petmesidou,Christos Papatheodoru Pdf

In the growth of regional identities worldwide, the Mediterranean Basin is emerging as an entity in its own right. This book, a unique collaboration among social scientists around the entire Mediterranean littoral, covers Southern Europe, Turkey, the Balkans, North Africa, and the Near East. Leading economists, sociologists and social policy experts document with new and up-to-date empirical material the changing profiles of poverty and social deprivation. The result is a thought-provoking comparison of the extent, severity and structural causes of poverty and social inequality, and the huge diversity of public responses to the challenges they pose.

Author : Hans-Dieter Klingemann,Dieter Fuchs,Jan Zielonka
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2006-11-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134170425

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Democracy and Political Culture in Eastern Europe by Hans-Dieter Klingemann,Dieter Fuchs,Jan Zielonka Pdf

What is the relationship between democracy and political culture in countries undergoing major systemic change? Have subjective political orientations of citizens been important in shaping the development of democracy in central and eastern Europe after the fall of communism? These core questions are tackled by an impressive range of twenty political scientists, sixteen of which are based in the central and eastern European countries covered in this essential new book. Their analyses draw on a unique set of data collected and processed by the contributors to this volume within the framework of the World Values Survey project. This data enables these authors to establish similarities and differences in support of democracy between a large number of countries with different cultural and structural conditions as well as historical legacies. The macro-level findings of the book tend to support the proposition that support of democracy declines the further east one goes. In contrast, micro-level relationships have been found to be astonishingly similar. For example, support of democracy is always positively related to higher levels of education – no matter where an individual citizen happens to live. This new book builds a clear understanding of what makes democracies strong and resistant to autocratic temptation.

Author : Professor Nikolai Genov
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781409489009

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Global Trends in Eastern Europe by Professor Nikolai Genov Pdf

Eastern Europe was once clearly defined by the centralized political and economic organization of the societies in the region. They shared the same official ideology and were members of the same alliances. After 1989, the region collapsed in an economic, political and cultural implosion. What were the moving forces of this profound change? What are its consequences? Could we try to reasonably foresee any future developments? In this thought-provoking book, Nikolai Genov presents a systematic description and explanation of Eastern European societal transformations after 1989. They are interpreted as adaptations to four global trends; upgrading the rationality of organizations; individualization; spreading of instrumental activism; and universalization of value-normative systems. Adaptations to these trends have generally been successful. However, Genov notes that the process is marked by many failures as well. They are mostly caused by path dependency in the societal development and by the varying quality of relevant decisions, other destructive developments are due to contradictions in the global trends themselves. Guided by the assumption that the societal and supranational integration mechanisms in Eastern Europe before 1989 could not resist the overwhelming power of global trends, Genov's controversial findings question visions about the end of history and simultaneously strengthen the confidence that most complex macro-social processes can be rationally managed. A timely book allowing for a much needed engagement in contemporary debates on the controversial processes in Eastern European transitions.

Author : Nikolai Genov
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317127246

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Global Trends in Eastern Europe by Nikolai Genov Pdf

Eastern Europe was once clearly defined by the centralized political and economic organization of the societies in the region. They shared the same official ideology and were members of the same alliances. After 1989, the region collapsed in an economic, political and cultural implosion. What were the moving forces of this profound change? What are its consequences? Could we try to reasonably foresee any future developments? In this thought-provoking book, Nikolai Genov presents a systematic description and explanation of Eastern European societal transformations after 1989. They are interpreted as adaptations to four global trends; upgrading the rationality of organizations; individualization; spreading of instrumental activism; and universalization of value-normative systems. Adaptations to these trends have generally been successful. However, Genov notes that the process is marked by many failures as well. They are mostly caused by path dependency in the societal development and by the varying quality of relevant decisions, other destructive developments are due to contradictions in the global trends themselves. Guided by the assumption that the societal and supranational integration mechanisms in Eastern Europe before 1989 could not resist the overwhelming power of global trends, Genov's controversial findings question visions about the end of history and simultaneously strengthen the confidence that most complex macro-social processes can be rationally managed. A timely book allowing for a much needed engagement in contemporary debates on the controversial processes in Eastern European transitions.

Author : World Bank
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0821347209

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Making Transition Work for Everyone by World Bank Pdf

Annotation This book brings together the latest findings on the nature and evolution of poverty and inequality in the region.

Author : United Nations Environment Programme
Publisher : Earthscan
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1853838454

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Global Environment Outlook 3 by United Nations Environment Programme Pdf

Integrating environment and development:1972-2002; State of the environment and policy retrospective: 1972-2002; Human vulnerability to environmental change; Outlook: 2002-32; Options for action.

Author : Peter Herrmann,Arno Tausch
Publisher : Nova Publishers
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Law
ISBN : 1594542872

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Dar Al Islam--the Mediterranean, the World System and the Wider Europe by Peter Herrmann,Arno Tausch Pdf

With the process of a 'wider Europe' (EU-Commission President Romano Prodi's 'ring of friends') that extends from Marrakech in Morocco to St Petersburg in Russia gathering speed, the growing rift between Europe and America also is about how to deal politically with the countries of the Mediterranean-Muslim world. The house of Islam (Dar al Islam) was pivotal to the European path to the Renaissance and to the re-discovery of classic Greek philosophy. The Mediterranean policy of the European Union aims at a positive and co-operative relationship with the region. A successful integration of the Mediterranean South would have tremendous and positive repercussions for regional and world peace. World-wide leading experts from the field of world systems analysis, economics, integration theory, political science, theology and area studies, agnostics, Christians, Jews and Muslims alike discuss the issue with European decision makers. The outcome is an interdisciplinary evaluation of this projected export of peace, co-operation, dialogue and stability in the framework of world centre-periphery relationships.

Author : Theodore Caplow
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780773523036

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Leviathan Transformed by Theodore Caplow Pdf

Leviathan Transformed is based on the premise that a national state is a particular type of organization and, at any given time and like any other organization, its performance can be evaluated with reasonable objectivity. The authors, an international team of eminent social scientists, examine the performance of seven states: Bulgaria, Canada, France, Italy, Germany, Spain, and the United States. These nations pursue similar goals B union, justice, tranquillity, defence, welfare, liberty B which, in one form or another, are common to all democracies.

Author : Luigi Tomasi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000160253

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New Horizons in Sociological Theory and Research by Luigi Tomasi Pdf

This title was first published in 2001. This book tackles the important issue of the tasks that confront sociology in the third millennium. It examines the sociological interpretations of the World-Wide revolution which - amid unprecedented scientific and technological progress and the globalization of markets - has generated new inequalities, poverty, structural unemployment and mass conditionings. A number of the most distinguished living sociologists (including Boudon, Beck, Eisenstadt, Tiryakain, Wieviorka) furnish profound and innovative interpretations of changes in world society, while outlining the frontiers of sociological research for the 21st Century. The contributions to the book not only prompt reflection on the structure and organization of sociological research, but also revitalize sociological inquiry by conducting original and stimulating analysis of theoretical and methodological issues - an undertaking essential for the survival of the discipline itself.

Author : Arno Tausch
Publisher : Rozenberg Publishers
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Economic development
ISBN : 9789051709100

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The City on the Hill? by Arno Tausch Pdf

Author : Giovanni Razzu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317327943

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Gender Inequality in the Eastern European Labour Market by Giovanni Razzu Pdf

Under communism there was, in the countries of Eastern Europe, a high level of gender equality in the labour market, particularly in terms of high participation rates by women. The transition from communism has upset this situation, with different impacts in the different countries. This book presents a comprehensive overview of gender and the labour market since the fall of communism in a wide range of Eastern European countries. Each country chapter describes the nature of inequality in the particular country, and goes on to examine the factors responsible for this, including government policies, changing social attitudes, levels of educational attainment and the impact of motherhood. Overall, the book provides an interesting comparison to the situation in Western developed countries, outlining differences and similarities. No one single Eastern European model emerges while, as in Western developed countries, a range of experiences and trends is the norm.

Author : Michael Bradshaw,Alison Stenning
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781317905035

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East Central Europe and the former Soviet Union by Michael Bradshaw,Alison Stenning Pdf

A comprehensive introduction to the important economic, social and political processes and development issues in this increasingly popular area of study. Employing a groundbreaking thematic approach the book centres its discussion on the interrelation between contemporary development theories and continuing transition issues in this huge and complex region.