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Author : Andrzej Rychard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Reforms, Adaptation, and Breakthrough written by Andrzej Rychard and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ted Nordhaus
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780618658251
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (582 download)
Download or read book Break Through written by Ted Nordhaus and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2007 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description
Author : Suava Zbierski-Salameh
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739165151
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)
Download or read book Bitter Harvest written by Suava Zbierski-Salameh and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2013-04-11 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bitter Harvest, a historical ethnographic study, examines the property changes prompted by the early post-socialist neoliberal reforms designed to build capitalism in Poland. Historically, the book traces the halting but steady emergence of privatization and liberalization, even under socialism, and how these anticipated the reforms of the post-socialist period. Contrary to the view that the 1989 post-socialist policy represented a radical departure from former state socialist policies via the importation of Western “shock therapy” reforms, including the key economic institution of private property, this book dispenses with the sharp divide between the “socialist past” and “capitalist present” and argues the lasting importance of these historical antecedents in shaping both post-socialist policy and responses to it. Ethnographically, the book provides a detailed account of the different yet interdependent ways the post-socialist reform program influenced existing agricultural property forms—small farmers, production cooperatives, and state farms—leading in each case to unexpected economic results and political contestation of the policy objectives. This historical and ethnographic study of multiple forms of ownership poses a challenge to the common conception of a homogenized socialism based on state property. It also refutes the reductionist representation of the reality after socialism as the creation of Western-style, private property–based economic systems, unaffected by the unique Eastern European sociopolitical context. Instead, looking at Poland’s property changes through the eyes and experiences of diverse agricultural owners, this book employs the notion of conjoint property to unpack the complexity of ownership under socialism and theorize its evolution into an incomplete exclusive ownership after socialism. This new conceptual framework of property changes in early transition helps us to understand current developments in Eastern Europe as it integrates with the European Union and intersects with global capitalism. It further sheds light on the limits of the universality of the Western notion of private property.
Author : Anna Sosnowska
Publisher : Central European University Press
ISBN 13 : 9637326316
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (373 download)
Download or read book Explaining Economic Backwardness written by Anna Sosnowska and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-12 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph is about an exciting episode in the intellectual history of Europe: the vigorous debate among leading Polish historians on the sources of the economic development and non-development, including the origins of economic divisions within Europe. The work covers nearly fifty years of this debate between the publication of two pivotal works in 1947 and 1994. Anna Sosnowska provides an insightful interpretation of how local and generational experience shaped the notions of post-1945 Polish historians about Eastern European backwardness, and how their debate influenced Western historical sociology, social theories of development and dependency in peripheral areas, and the image of Eastern Europe in Western, Marxist-inspired social science. Although created under the adverse conditions of state socialism and censorship, this body of scholarship had an important repercussion in international social science of the post-war period, contributing an emphasis on international comparisons, as well as a stress on social theory and explanations. Sosnowska's analysis also helps to understand current differences that lead to conflicts between Europe’s richest and economically most developed core and its southern and eastern peripheries. The historians she studies also investigated analogies between paths in Eastern Europe and regions of West Africa, Latin America and East Asia.
Author : Charles,De,Wolff
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 1134838255
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)
Download or read book A Handbook of Work and Organizational Psychology written by Charles,De,Wolff and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2013-05-24 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organizational processes and the organization-environment interaction are discussed in this volume of the Handbook of Work and Organizational Psychology. Both organizational and environmental characteristics affect the behaviour of individuals and groups, but such characteristics are in turn also influenced by behavioural features. This volume on organizational psychology covers subject areas such as organization theory, organizational culture and change, leadership, decision making and participation, motivation and satisfaction, payment systems, effective communication, and social-organizational aspects of automation. The final chapter describes the impact upon behaviour and attitudes of the transition of a socialist-led society to a market economy.
Author : George Sanford
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136650962
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (366 download)
Download or read book Poland written by George Sanford and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poland pioneered the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe. Domestic reformism and the negotiated abdication of ruling elites in 1989 have structured the country's politics in the 1990s. But the division between the communist and Solidarity camps continues to cause problems for a potential reform coalition aiming to complete modernisation through the restructuring required for EU membership. Secular-Catholic and rural-urban conflicts, and well as the growing regional split between the north-west and south-east, have fragmented political life and the party system. Nevertheless, Poland has made remarkable steps in the consolidation of democracy and the development of her political system, whilst maintaining social stability; she is also successfully transcending her historical security dilemma of open western and eastern frontiers and stronger, aggressive neighbours, by embedding herself in Europe through membership of NATO and the EU. Poland is overcoming her historical problems.
Author : Pieter Johan Diederik Drenth
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780863775260
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (752 download)
Download or read book Handbook of Work and Organizational Psychology: Organizational psychology written by Pieter Johan Diederik Drenth and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume four of a four volume set. This second edition has been extensively rewritten and should be of interest to both practitioners and students of organizational psychology.
Author : Donald R. Kelley
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
ISBN 13 : 9781610750080
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (5 download)
Download or read book After Communism: Perspectives on Democracy (p) written by Donald R. Kelley and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Pickles
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134715641
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)
Download or read book Theorizing Transition written by John Pickles and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-31 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theorizing Transition provides a comprehensive examination of the economic, political, social and cultural transformations in post-Communist countries and an important critique of transition theory and policy. The authors create the basis of a theoretical understanding of transition in terms of a political economy of capitalist development. The diversity of forms and complexities of transition are examined through a wide range of examples from post-Soviet countries and comparative studies from countries such as Vietnam and China. Theorizing Transition challenges many of the comfortable assumptions unleashed by the euphoria of democratisation and the triumphalism of market capitalism in the early 1990s and shows transition to be much more complex than mainstream theory suggests.
Author : Pieter Johan Diederik Drenth
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780863775277
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (752 download)
Download or read book Organizational Psychology written by Pieter Johan Diederik Drenth and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume four of a four volume set. This second edition has been extensively rewritten and should be of interest to both practitioners and students of organizational psychology.
Author : De Charles
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 1134838182
Total Pages : 509 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)
Download or read book A Handbook of Work and Organizational Psychology written by De Charles and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2013-05-24 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organizational processes and the organization-environment interaction are discussed in this volume of the Handbook of Work and Organizational Psychology. Both organizational and environmental characteristics affect the behaviour of individuals and groups, but such characteristics are in turn also influenced by behavioural features. This volume on organizational psychology covers subject areas such as organization theory, organizational culture and change, leadership, decision making and participation, motivation and satisfaction, payment systems, effective communication, and social-organizational aspects of automation. The final chapter describes the impact upon behaviour and attitudes of the transition of a socialist-led society to a market economy.
Author : Simon Smith
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113443264X
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (344 download)
Download or read book Local Communities and Post-Communist Transformation written by Simon Smith and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-03 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, based on extensive original research, examines the changes resulting from transformation at the local level in the former Czechoslovakia.
Author : Bruno Grancelli
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 311088447X
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Social Change and Modernization written by Bruno Grancelli and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-06-24 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jorge I. Domínguez
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801885952
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (859 download)
Download or read book The Construction of Democracy written by Jorge I. Domínguez and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2007-07-06 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How should democracies balance the hopes and constraints of their societies with the architecture of their constitutions and institutions to secure freedom, promote citizenship, and foster prosperity? In The Construction of Democracy, leading scholars from seven different countries—and key decision makers from eight—come together to analyze the dimensions of democratic design and draw not only practical but feasible recommendations. Here citizens, politicians, and government officials offer valuable insight into the craft of politics with real examples of success and failures from some of the leading policy makers of our time—including the president of Portugal, former presidents of Brazil and Colombia, and a former prime minister of India. Drawing on the work of the Club of Madrid's Conference on Democratic Transition and Consolidation, the contributors discuss building and sustaining a contemporary democratic state, strengthening pluralism and public participation, designing effective constitutions, confronting economic challenges for new democracies, and controlling corruption. In a rare instance where the expertise of practical-minded scholars is melded with the experience of thoughtful policy makers, this volume offers much-needed insight to others seeking sensible and effective solutions. Contributors: Carlos Blanco, minister for the reform of the state, Venezuela; Fernando Henrique Cardoso, former president of Brazil; Aníbal Cavaco Silva, president of Portugal; Antônio Octávio Cintra, the Research Service of the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies; Rut Diamint, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires; Jorge I. Domínguez, Harvard University; Grzegorz Ekiert, Harvard University; César Gaviria, former president of Colombia; Anna Grzymala-Busse, University of Michigan; Inder Kumar Gujral, former prime minister of India; Anthony Jones, the Gorbachev Foundation of North America; Marcelo Barroso Lacombe, the Research Service of the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies; José Luis Méndez, El Colegio de México; Andrew Richards, Instituto Juan March of the Centro de Estudios Avanzados de Ciencias Sociales, Madrid; Susan Rose-Ackerman, Yale University; Richard Simeon, University of Toronto; Luc Turgeon, University of Toronto.
Author : Piotr Kozarzewski
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030785629
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (37 download)
Download or read book State Corporate Control in Transition written by Piotr Kozarzewski and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-10-18 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the global financial crisis of 2008-2009, there has been a growing interest among policy makers towards the more active role of the state in the enterprise sector. This book provides valuable insight into the changing role of state-owned enterprises in economic policy, a topic at the cross section of several interrelated, but usually independent research streams first of all transition research, varieties of capitalism literature, public choice approach and institutionalism studies. With the existing literature on state ownership concentrating on the developed economies and on selected emerging economies, this book fills an important gap in focusing on the post-communist transition countries. The Polish experience is looked at in a comparative perspective of selected transition countries, which deserve special attention as they had to cope with a radical change of their economic policies towards the enterprise sector. This book will be valuable reading for academics in economic policy, transition economics, and institutional economics, and policy makers and practitioners in EU bodies and emerging economies.
Author : Anna Seleny
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 052183564X
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)
Download or read book The Political Economy of State-Society Relations in Hungary and Poland written by Anna Seleny and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-02-13 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows how Hungary and Poland led the transformations that brought down Communism.
Author : Marc Guinjoan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317083717
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Parties, Elections and Electoral Contests written by Marc Guinjoan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-13 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to the Duvergerian theories, in the long run, only viable parties are expected to stand for elections. Non-viable parties should join a pre-electoral coalition with another party or withdraw from competition entirely. Why then do non-viable political parties throughout the world systematically continue presenting candidates? This book responds to this evident but unanswered question to create a general theory about deviations from the Duvergerian equilibrium. The author argues that, far from being just a random or irrational decision, the choice of political parties to present candidates when they do not expect to achieve representation can be explained by the overlap of electoral arenas, that generate opportunities for viable parties to present candidates where they are non-viable. In sum, political parties will take advantage of their viability in an arena to present candidacies in other arenas where they do not have chances to become viable. The building of this new theory on electoral contamination allows the construction of a new and more encompassing conceptual framework through which to make sense of what, until now, has been understood as disparate phenomena and contributes to a better understanding of political parties’ strategic behaviour.
