Post Communism

Author : Bálint Magyar,Bálint Madlovics
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 834 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789633863701

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The Anatomy of Post-Communist Regimes by Bálint Magyar,Bálint Madlovics Pdf

Offering a single, coherent framework of the political, economic, and social phenomena that characterize post-communist regimes, this is the most comprehensive work on the subject to date. Focusing on Central Europe, the post-Soviet countries and China, the study provides a systematic mapping of possible post-communist trajectories. At exploring the structural foundations of post-communist regime development, the work discusses the types of state, with an emphasis on informality and patronalism; the variety of actors in the political, economic, and communal spheres; the ways autocrats neutralize media, elections, etc. The analysis embraces the color revolutions of civil resistance (as in Georgia and in Ukraine) and the defensive mechanisms of democracy and autocracy; the evolution of corruption and the workings of “relational economy”; an analysis of China as “market-exploiting dictatorship”; the sociology of “clientage society”; and the instrumental use of ideology, with an emphasis on populism. Beyond a cataloguing of phenomena—actors, institutions, and dynamics of post-communist democracies, autocracies, and dictatorships—Magyar and Madlovics also conceptualize everything as building blocks to a larger, coherent structure: a new language for post-communist regimes. While being the most definitive book on the topic, the book is nevertheless written in an accessible style suitable for both beginners who wish to understand the logic of post-communism and scholars who are interested in original contributions to comparative regime theory. The book is equipped with QR codes that link to www.postcommunistregimes.com, which contains interactive, 3D supplementary material for teaching.

Author : Michael Mandelbaum
Publisher : Council on Foreign Relations
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0876091869

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Postcommunism by Michael Mandelbaum Pdf

This book offers distinctive perspectives, by four leading students of politics, on the single most important social, political, and economic development of the 1990s: post-communist Eurasia.

Author : Herbert Kitschelt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1999-08-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 052165890X

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Post-Communist Party Systems by Herbert Kitschelt Pdf

Examines democratic party competition in four post-communist polities in the 1990s. The work illustrates developments regarding different voter appeal of parties, patterns of voter representation, and dispositions to join other parties in alliances. Wider groups of countries are also compared.

Author : Maria Todorova,Zsuzsa Gille
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857456434

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Post-communist Nostalgia by Maria Todorova,Zsuzsa Gille Pdf

Although the end of the Cold War was greeted with great enthusiasm by people in the East and the West, the ensuing social and especially economic changes did not always result in the hoped-for improvements in people's lives. This led to widespread disillusionment that can be observed today all across Eastern Europe. Not simply a longing for security, stability, and prosperity, this nostalgia is also a sense of loss regarding a specific form of sociability. Even some of those who opposed communism express a desire to invest their new lives with renewed meaning and dignity. Among the younger generation, it surfaces as a tentative yet growing curiosity about the recent past. In this volume scholars from multiple disciplines explore the various fascinating aspects of this nostalgic turn by analyzing the impact of generational clusters, the rural-urban divide, gender differences, and political orientation. They argue persuasively that this nostalgia should not be seen as a wish to restore the past, as it has otherwise been understood, but instead it should be recognized as part of a more complex healing process and an attempt to come to terms both with the communist era as well as the new inequalities of the post-communist era.

Author : B lint Magyar
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9786155513541

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Post-Communist Mafia State by B lint Magyar Pdf

Having won a two-third majority in Parliament at the 2010 elections, the Hungarian political party Fidesz removed many of the institutional obstacles of exerting power. Just like the party, the state itself was placed under the control of a single individual, who since then has applied the techniques used within his party to enforce submission and obedience onto society as a whole. In a new approach the author characterizes the system as the ?organized over-world?, the ?state employing mafia methods? and the ?adopted political family', applying these categories not as metaphors but elements of a coherent conceptual framework. The actions of the post-communist mafia state model are closely aligned with the interests of power and wealth concentrated in the hands of a small group of insiders. While the traditional mafia channeled wealth and economic players into its spheres of influence by means of direct coercion, the mafia state does the same by means of parliamentary legislation, legal prosecution, tax authority, police forces and secret service. The innovative conceptual framework of the book is important and timely not only for Hungary, but also for other post-communist countries subjected to autocratic rules. ÿ

Author : Balint Magyar,Julia Vasarhelyi
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 660 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9786155513626

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Twenty-Five Sides of a Post-Communist Mafia State by Balint Magyar,Julia Vasarhelyi Pdf

The twenty-five essays accompany, illustrate and underpin the conceptual framework elaborated in Post-Communist Mafia State, published in conjunction with this volume. Leading specialists analyze the manifestations of the current political regime in Hungary from twenty-five angles. Topics discussed include the ideology, constitutional issues, social policy, the judiciary, foreign relations, nationalism, media, memory politics, corruption, civil society, education, culture and so on. Beyond the basic features of the economy the domains of taxation, banking system, energy policies and the agriculture are treated in dedicated studies. The essays are based on detailed empirical investigation about conditions in today?s Hungary. They nevertheless contribute to the exploration of the characteristic features of post-communist authoritarian regimes, shared by an increasing number of countries in Europe and Central Asia.ÿ Joint publication with Noran Libro, Budapestÿ ÿ

Author : D. Lane,M. Myant
Publisher : Springer
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780230627574

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Varieties of Capitalism in Post-Communist Countries by D. Lane,M. Myant Pdf

This book sets the experiences of former communist countries as they head towards capitalism against the 'varieties of capitalism' paradigm, and provides a framework for comparing transformation processes, demonstrating how differing heritages of communist and pre-communist pasts are leading to different kinds of capitalist economies.

Author : Jadwiga Staniszkis
Publisher : Institute of Political Studies Polish Academy of Sciences
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015051279399

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Post-communism by Jadwiga Staniszkis Pdf

Author : Grigore Pop-Eleches,Joshua A. Tucker
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781400887828

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Communism's Shadow by Grigore Pop-Eleches,Joshua A. Tucker Pdf

It has long been assumed that the historical legacy of Soviet Communism would have an important effect on post-communist states. However, prior research has focused primarily on the institutional legacy of communism. Communism's Shadow instead turns the focus to the individuals who inhabit post-communist countries, presenting a rigorous assessment of the legacy of communism on political attitudes. Post-communist citizens hold political, economic, and social opinions that consistently differ from individuals in other countries. Grigore Pop-Eleches and Joshua Tucker introduce two distinct frameworks to explain these differences, the first of which focuses on the effects of living in a post-communist country, and the second on living through communism. Drawing on large-scale research encompassing post-communist states and other countries around the globe, the authors demonstrate that living through communism has a clear, consistent influence on why citizens in post-communist countries are, on average, less supportive of democracy and markets and more supportive of state-provided social welfare. The longer citizens have lived through communism, especially as adults, the greater their support for beliefs associated with communist ideology—the one exception being opinions regarding gender equality. A thorough and nuanced examination of communist legacies' lasting influence on public opinion, Communism's Shadow highlights the ways in which political beliefs can outlast institutional regimes.

Author : Lavinia Stan,Nadya Nedelsky
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-26
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781107065567

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Post-Communist Transitional Justice by Lavinia Stan,Nadya Nedelsky Pdf

Explores how the former communist regimes of Central and Eastern Europe have grappled with the serious human rights violations of past regimes.

Author : Vessela S. Warner,Diana Manole
Publisher : Studies Theatre Hist & Culture
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 9781609386771

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Staging Postcommunism by Vessela S. Warner,Diana Manole Pdf

This collection investigates the ways in which postcommunist alternative theatre negotiated and embodied change not only locally but globally as well.

Author : Jerzy Szacki
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1858660165

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Liberalism After Communism by Jerzy Szacki Pdf

This work is the first comprehensive presentation of liberal thought in Central Europe, especially in Poland, before and after 1989. The book contains a critical analysis of the proto-liberal anti-communist democratic opposition, in particular its ideas of the autonomy of the individual and civil society, and a description of economic liberalism as an alternative liberal orientation. The author's main theme, however, is the dilemma of liberalism in a post-communist society in which it is faced with historically unprecedented challenges. In countries which have no liberal tradition or the social or economic conditions which encouraged the emergence of liberalism in the past, the classic tenets of liberalism are undergoing essential modifications. Liberalism inescapably is becoming "constructivist" and serves primarily as the justification for a remarkable kind of social engineering whose objective is the rapid building of capitalism. This book is both an important contribution to our knowledge of the post-communist world and a voice in thh discussion on the nature and future of liberalism.

Author : Tibor Valuch
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9789633863770

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Everyday Life under Communism and After by Tibor Valuch Pdf

By providing a survey of consumption and lifestyle in Hungary during the second half of the twentieth century, this book shows how common people lived during and after tumultuous regime changes. After an introduction covering the late 1930s, the study centers on the communist era, and goes on to describe changes in the post-communist period with its legacy of state socialism. Tibor Valuch poses a series of questions. Who could be called rich or poor and how did they live in the various periods? How did living, furnishings, clothing, income, and consumption mirror the structure of the society and its transformations? How could people accommodate their lifestyles to the political and social system? How specific to the regime was consumption after the communist takeover, and how did consumption habits change after the demise of state socialism? The answers, based on micro-histories, statistical data, population censuses and surveys help to understand the complexities of daily life, not only in Hungary, but also in other communist regimes in east-central Europe, with insights on their antecedents and afterlives.

Author : Katrina Z. S. Schwartz
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780822973140

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Nature and National Identity After Communism by Katrina Z. S. Schwartz Pdf

In this groundbreaking book, Katrina Schwartz examines the intersection of environmental politics, globalization, and national identity in a small East European country: modern-day Latvia. Based on extensive ethnographic research and lively discourse analysis, it explores that country's post-Soviet responses to European assistance and political pressure in nature management, biodiversity conservation, and rural development. These responses were shaped by hotly contested notions of national identity articulated as contrasting visions of the “ideal” rural landscape. The players in this story include Latvian farmers and other traditional rural dwellers, environmental advocates, and professionals with divided attitudes toward new European approaches to sustainable development. An entrenched set of forestry and land management practices, with roots in the Soviet and pre-Soviet eras, confront growing international pressures on a small country to conform to current (Western) notions of environmental responsibility—notions often perceived by Latvians to be at odds with local interests. While the case is that of Latvia, the dynamics Schwartz explores have wide applicability and speak powerfully to broader theoretical discussions about sustainable development, social constructions of nature, the sources of nationalism, and the impacts of globalization and regional integration on the traditional nation-state.

Author : Nanette Funk,Magda Mueller
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429759000

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Gender Politics and Post-Communism by Nanette Funk,Magda Mueller Pdf

In the wake of communism’s decline, women’s concerns had become increasingly important in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Yet most discussions of post-communism changes had neglected women’s experiences. Originally published in 1993, this title was the first collection of its kind, presenting original essays by women scholars, politicians, activists, and former dissidents from Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, along with essays by Western feminists and scholars. They discuss gender politics during the often turbulent transition and crises of post-communism, offering vivid accounts and analyses of the conditions facing women in each country.