Post-Communist Economic Societies
- Editore:
VDM Verlag
- EAN:
9783639142457
- ISBN:
3639142454
- Pagine:
- 116
- Formato:
- Paperback
- Lingua:
- Tedesco
Descrizione Post-Communist Economic Societies
Are there any blueprints that can ensure the successof democratic consolidation? Is their efficiencybased on world wide empirical evidence thatrecognizes divergent legacies of social structuresand consciousness? In this work, Alina STRUGUTargues for a paradox of democratic transformation:the success of early economic societies - as anarena of democratic consolidation - is guaranteedthrough un-democratic measures. This is due to thegreat magnitude of post-communist economictransformation, where timing was crucial. For this,Alina STRUGUT identifies and examines elementsof path-dependency in the configuration of incipienteconomic societies, by looking into the first reform packages introduced in post-communistPoland and Romania. This book explores how increasingreturns and critical junctures have punctuated notonly the settings for the implementation of reforms,but also the structural dimensions of incipienteconomic societies: state intervention and marketmechanisms. Such structural dimensions are analyzedfor the most important reform policies: macroeconomicstabilization and liberalization, privatization, andsocial safety nets.
