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Author: Sabrina Petra Ramet
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-03-04
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 0429710550
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book tackles different aspects of the adaptive and transformative process in communist and post-communist systems in Eastern Europe, offering competing models, which locate the explanatory variable in different places and account for the unfolding of change in different ways.
Author: Sabrina Petra Ramet
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-06-17
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 9780367004491
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book explores specific facets of systemic change in a theoretical way for understanding the processes of transformation in the communist systems. It is useful for historians and others concerned with the collapse of the communist system.
Author: Bernard Chavance
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-06-26
Total Pages: 180
ISBN-13: 1000306429
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In the confrontation between the two main economic systems that has marked the twentieth century, capitalism has been declared the winner–by default– over its adversary, socialism. Today, establishing a market economy has become the primary goal of the formerly socialist countries. The history of economic reform helps explain this remarkable turning point. Attempts to improve the old centralized system by expanding enterprise autonomy (in Poland, the Soviet Union, and East Germany) and more radical reforms that limited the role of central planning (in Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and China) encountered social and political obstacles or had unexpected and undesired effects. During the 1980s, the idea of a socialist market economy, which had been seen as a "third way" between capitalism and centralized socialism, was abandoned as economists gradually came to support a free market rather than the dogma of planning. Through a comparative and historical analysis of change in socialist and post-socialist systems, this timely and original book clarifies the policies and pitfalls in this extraordinary transition. Bernard Chavance provides a succinct introduction and analysis of the politics and economics of Eastern Europe from the creation of the Stalinist system in the Soviet Union through what he argues have been three major waves of reform since the 1950s to the dismantling of most socialist governments in the 1990s. Exploring the link between the one-party regime and the growing rigidity of socialist economic systems, the author analyzes the failure of both incremental and radical reforms to adapt to new economic challenges, thus leading to the ultimate collapse of communist regimes in Europe.
Author: David L Shambaugh
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2008-04-02
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780520934696
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Few issues affect the future of China--and hence all the nations that interact with China--more than the nature of its ruling party and government. In this timely study, David Shambaugh assesses the strengths and weaknesses, durability, adaptability, and potential longevity of China's Communist Party (CCP). He argues that although the CCP has been in a protracted state of atrophy, it has undertaken a number of adaptive measures aimed at reinventing itself and strengthening its rule. Shambaugh's investigation draws on a unique set of inner-Party documents and interviews, and he finds that China's Communist Party is resilient and will continue to retain its grip on power. Copub: Woodrow Wilson Center Press
Author: Richard Rose
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2009-01-21
Total Pages: 234
ISBN-13: 1134016700
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The fall of the Berlin Wall launched the transformation of government, economy and society across half of Europe and the former Soviet Union. The text compares how ordinary people have coped with the stresses and opportunities of transforming into post-Communist societies.
Author: Iván Szelényi
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2019-11-26
Total Pages: 263
ISBN-13: 9004413197
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book intends to be a contribution to the varieties of capitalism paradigm. Our main question is to what extent the present system in Russia, the model of President Putin is a generic model for all post-communist capitalisms.
Author: M. Petrovic
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2013-07-12
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 1137315350
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Tracing both economic and political developments through the prism of history as well as more recent developments, this book casts new light on the role of communist history in setting the different regional successes in post-communist transition.
Author: Jeroen Huisman
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2018-04-24
Total Pages: 482
ISBN-13: 3319529803
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This open access book is a result of the first ever study of the transformations of the higher education institutional landscape in fifteen former USSR countries after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. It explores how the single Soviet model that developed across the vast and diverse territory of the Soviet Union over several decades has evolved into fifteen unique national systems, systems that have responded to national and global developments while still bearing some traces of the past. The book is distinctive as it presents a comprehensive analysis of the reforms and transformations in the region in the last 25 years; and it focuses on institutional landscape through the evolution of the institutional types established and developed in Pre-Soviet, Soviet and Post-Soviet time. It also embraces all fifteen countries of the former USSR, and provides a comparative analysis of transformations of institutional landscape across Post-Soviet systems. It will be highly relevant for students and researchers in the fields of higher education and and sociology, particularly those with an interest in historical and comparative studies.
Author: Alfio Cerami
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2009-10-29
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780230230262
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book adopts novel theoretical approaches to study the diverse welfare pathways that have evolved across Central and Eastern Europe since the end of communism. It highlights the role of explanatory factors such as micro-causal mechanisms, power politics, path departure, and elite strategies.
Author: Karin Wahl-Jorgensen
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-06-20
Total Pages: 684
ISBN-13: 1351683144
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This second edition of The Handbook of Journalism Studies explores the current state of research in journalism studies and sets an agenda for future development of the field in an international context. The volume is structured around theoretical and empirical approaches to journalism research and covers scholarship on news production; news content; journalism and society; journalism and culture; and journalism studies in a global context. As journalism studies has become richer and more diverse as a field of study, the second edition reflects both the growing diversity of the field, and the ways in which journalism itself has undergone rapid change in recent years. Emphasizing comparative and global perspectives, this new edition explores: Key elements, thinkers, and texts Historical context Current state of the field Methodological issues Merits and advantages of the approach/area of study Limitations and critical issues of the approach/area of study Directions for future research Offering broad international coverage from world-leading contributors, this volume is a comprehensive resource for theory and scholarship in journalism studies. As such, it is a must-have resource for scholars and graduate students working in journalism, media studies, and communication around the globe.
