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Architects of Long Change: The Expert Roots of Post-Socialism in Czechoslovakia (1980-1995)

Architects of Long Change: The Expert Roots of Post-Socialism in Czechoslovakia (1980-1995)

Kopecek, Michal
Turner, Gerald

Paperback

Series: Václav Havel

Eastern European HistorySocial Movements

PREORDER - Expected ship date November 4, 2026

ISBN10: 8024661179
ISBN13: 9788024661179
Publisher: Karolinum Press, Charles University
Published: Nov 4 2026
Pages: 400
Language: English
A thorough retort to the idea that the West led the transition from communism to liberal democracy.

Architects of Long Change examines expert forms of governance and their legitimization before 1989, as well as the transfer of expert knowledge and practices of political and social management during the democratic transition. The contributors argue that so-called neoliberal governance was not solely the result of imported Western political and cultural models, but was also shaped by intellectual, mental, and sociocultural continuities from the period of late socialism. These continuities--and the broader hypothesis of a long systemic change spanning from 1980 to 1995--are explored through case studies in legal science, sociology, urban planning, environmental studies, psychotherapy, and business management.

Architects of Long Change offers a novel perspective on the late communist dictatorship, the democratic revolution of 1989, and the early development of liberal democracy and capitalism in Czechoslovakia and later the Czech Republic.

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