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Institutional Design in Post-Communist Societies: Rebuilding the Ship at Sea

Institutional Design in Post-Communist Societies: Rebuilding the Ship at Sea

Elster, Jon
Offe, Claus
Preuss, Ulrich K.

Paperback

Series: Theories of Institutional Design

General Political Science

ISBN10: 0521479312
ISBN13: 9780521479318
Publisher: Cambridge
Published: Mar 28 1998
Pages: 364
Weight: 1.20
Height: 0.96 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.20
Language: English
The authors of this book have developed a different approach to the analysis of the transitions of Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Slovakia to democracy and a market economy. They integrate interdisciplinary theoretical work with elaborate empirical data on some of the most challenging events of the 20th century. Three groups of phenomena and their causal interconnection are explored: the material legacies, constraints, habits and cognitive frameworks inherited from the past; the erratic configuration of new actors, and new spaces for action; and a new institutional order under which agency is institutionalized and the sustainability of institutions is achieved. The book studies the interrelations of national identities, economic interests, and political institutions with the transformation process, concentrating on issues of constitution making, democratic infrastructure, the market economy, and social policy.

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