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Book Synopsis Building a Trustworthy State in Post-Socialist Transition by : J. Kornai
Download or read book Building a Trustworthy State in Post-Socialist Transition written by J. Kornai and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-12-25 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Creating Social Trust in Post-Socialist Transition by : J. Kornai
Download or read book Creating Social Trust in Post-Socialist Transition written by J. Kornai and published by Springer. This book was released on 2004-06-25 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
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Download or read book Building a Trustworthy State in Post-Socialist Transition written by and published by . This book was released on 2004-08-23 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Socialism Vanquished, Socialism Challenged by : Nina Bandelj
Download or read book Socialism Vanquished, Socialism Challenged written by Nina Bandelj and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-09-05 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Rotten States? written by Leslie Holmes and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2006-06-08 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVAnalyzes the scale, location, makeup, causes, and consequences of corruption in the post-communist world./div
Book Synopsis Reconfiguring Institutions Across Time and Space by : D. Galvan
Download or read book Reconfiguring Institutions Across Time and Space written by D. Galvan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-03-19 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Governance Beyond the Law by : Abel Polese
Download or read book Governance Beyond the Law written by Abel Polese and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-03-29 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Understanding Energy Security in Central and Eastern Europe by : Wojciech Ostrowski
Download or read book Understanding Energy Security in Central and Eastern Europe written by Wojciech Ostrowski and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-09 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis How Russia Really Works by : Alena V. Ledeneva
Download or read book How Russia Really Works written by Alena V. Ledeneva and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2014-01-15 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Corporate Social Responsibility and the Shaping of Global Public Policy by : M. Hirschland
Download or read book Corporate Social Responsibility and the Shaping of Global Public Policy written by M. Hirschland and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-12-11 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Political Culture under Institutional Pressure by : L. Bennich-Björkman
Download or read book Political Culture under Institutional Pressure written by L. Bennich-Björkman and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-12-09 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are world views once formed during childhood and adolescence stable over life or do they change when they come under pressure from new institutional contexts? This book seeks the answer by revisiting an aged political generation growing up in historically unique interwar Estonia but living their adult lives in exile.
Book Synopsis Post-Communist Transitional Justice by : Lavinia Stan
Download or read book Post-Communist Transitional Justice written by Lavinia Stan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-02-26 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking stock of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the collapse of the communist regimes of Central and Eastern Europe, this volume explores how these societies have grappled with the serious human rights violations of past regimes. It focuses on the most important factors that have shaped the nature, speed, and sequence of transitional justice programs in the period spanning the revolutions that brought about the collapse of the communist dictatorships and the consolidation of new democratic regimes. Contributors explain why leaders made certain choices, discuss the challenges they faced, and explore the role of under-studied actors and grassroots strategies. Written by recognized experts with an unparalleled grasp of the region's communist and post-communist reality, this volume addresses far-reaching reckoning, redress, and retribution policy choices. It is an engaging, carefully crafted volume, which covers a wide variety of cases and discusses key transitional justice theories using both qualitative and quantitative research methods.
Book Synopsis Capacity Building in Economics Education and Research by : François Bourguignon
Download or read book Capacity Building in Economics Education and Research written by François Bourguignon and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2007 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents papers from the conference on "Scaling up the Success of Capacity Building in Economic Education and Research," which took place in Budapest at the Central European University campus. It includes contributions from key researchers, academics and policy makers from Europe, the United States, and developing countries that identify and brainstorm on capacity building challenges.
Book Synopsis Deficit and Debt in Transition by : István Benczes
Download or read book Deficit and Debt in Transition written by István Benczes and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The adjustment problems of public finance in countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) are often misunderstood and misinterpreted by western scholars. This book contributes to the bridging of the gap between what is being thought by external observers and what the actual public finance reality is, as described by competent local scholars. Popular political economy research has remained biased towards advanced countries and has neglected developing and transition economies. Publications on CEE countries' public finances seem to be reluctant to apply the conceptual framework of standard political economy to these countries because of the assumption that CEE economies are different from their Western peers. But is this really the case? Are CEE economies so much different that none of the well-known "Western" political economy concepts or models can be applied to the analysis of fiscal performance in the region? Benczes demonstrates that they can be safely applied in the context of CEE economies as well. He sees no need to develop a separate or unique theory designed for the study and understanding of (one-time) transition economies.
Book Synopsis From Elections to Democracy by : Susan Rose-Ackerman
Download or read book From Elections to Democracy written by Susan Rose-Ackerman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The countries of Central Europe in the first round for admission to the European Union have all established constitutional, electoral democracies and market economies. However, much remains to be done to achieve fully consolidated democratic states. This study documents the weaknesses of public oversight and participation in policymaking in Hungary and Poland, two of the most advanced countries in the region. It discusses five alternative routes to accountability including European Union oversight, constitutional institutions such as presidents and courts, devolution to lower-level governments, the use of neo-corporatist bodies, and open-ended participation rights. It urges more emphasis on the fifth option, public participation. Case studies of the environmental movement in Hungary and of student groups in Poland illustrate these general points. The book reviews the United States' experience of open-ended public participation and draws some lessons for the transition countries from the strengths and weaknesses of the American system.
Book Synopsis Social Traps and the Problem of Trust by : Bo Rothstein
Download or read book Social Traps and the Problem of Trust written by Bo Rothstein and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-10-06 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A 'social trap' is a situation where individuals, groups or organisations are unable to cooperate owing to mutual distrust and lack of social capital, even where cooperation would benefit all. Examples include civil strife, pervasive corruption, ethnic discrimination, depletion of natural resources and misuse of social insurance systems. Much has been written attempting to explain the problem, but rather less material is available on how to escape it. In this book, Bo Rothstein explores how social capital and social trust are generated and what governments can do about it. He argues that it is the existence of universal and impartial political institutions together with public policies which enhance social and economic equality that creates social capital. By introducing the theory of collective memory into the discussion, Rothstein makes an empirical and theoretical claim for how universal institutions can be established.
Book Synopsis States and Development by : M. Lange
Download or read book States and Development written by M. Lange and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-08-14 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most important issues in comparative politics is the relationship between the state and society and the implications of different relationships for long-term social and economic development. Exploring the contribution states can make to overcoming collective action problems and creating collective goods favourable to social, economic, and political development, the contributors to this significant volume examine how state-society relations as well as features of state structure shape the conditions under which states seek to advance development and the conditions that make success more or less likely. Particular focus is given to bureaucratic oversight, market functioning, and the assertion of democratic demands discipline state actions and contribute to state effectiveness. These propositions and the social mechanisms underlying them are examined in comparative historical and cross-national statistical analyses. The conclusion will also evaluate the results for current policy concerns.
