Democratic and Capitalist Transitions in Eastern Europe

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction: When Transitology Meets Simultaneous Transitions

   1. Introduction: When Transitology Meets Simultaneous Transitions

      • Michel Dobry

      Pages 1-15

3. Transitology: The Impact of Eastern European Transformations

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-17

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   2. Rival Views of Postcommunist Market Society

      • Bela Greskovits

      Pages 19-47

   3. Paths, Choices, Outcomes, and Uncertainty

      • Michel Dobry

      Pages 49-70

   4. The Place of Place in Transitions to Democracy

      • Valerie Bunce

      Pages 71-90

   5. Anticipated Institutions: The Power Of Path-Finding Expectations

      • Michal Federowicz

      Pages 91-106

4. Elites, Political Games, and the Consolidation of Democracy

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 107-107

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   2. Elite Power Games and Democratic Politics in Central and Eastern Europe

      • John Higley, Jan Pakulski

      Pages 109-129

   3. From Transition to Consolidation

      • Philippe C. Schmitter, Nicolas Guilhot

      Pages 131-146

   4. Constitutions and “Good Democracy” in Eastern Europe

      • Leonardo Morlino

      Pages 147-177

   5. The Transformation of State Socialism in Russia

      • David Lane

      Pages 181-196

5. The Political Economy Of Simultaneous Transitions

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 179-179

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   2. Constituting Markets: the Case of Russia and the Czech Republic

      • Laszlo Bruszt

      Pages 197-219

   3. National Trajectories of Post-socialist Transformation: Is There a Convergence Towards Western Capitalisms?

      • Bernard Chavance, Eric Magnin

      Pages 221-233

   4. Internationalisation: An Issue Neglected in the Path-Dependency Approach to Post-Communist Transformation

      • Dorothee Böhle

      Pages 235-261

6. Back Matter

   Pages 263-277

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here ofexchange, and borrowing in debates between these disciplines, all the more so, as we shall see a little further on, as the analysis of the Central and East European transformations has also contributed to introduce into political science and sociology theoretical systematizations first formulated in economics. In addition to this opening up to the objects and theories of economics, the pseudo-"dilemma" ofsimultaneity produced, by a kind of feedback, another series of effects on transitology and the related research domains. Contrary to most expectations and predictions in the wake ofthe 1989 upheavals - affirmations that the "dilemmas", "problems" or "challenges" of the transitions in Central and Eastern Europe ought to have been dealt with and resolved one after the other in sequence, in the manner of the more or less idealized trajectories of Great Britain or Spain (trajectories significantly enough promoted, far beyond the circles of scholars, as a "model" of transition), andabove all, contrary to the assumption that superposing a radical economic transformation upon a transition to democracy would make the whole edifice thoroughly unworkable, unstable or dangerous - it must be stated clearly out that the two processes, in their "simultaneity", are not necessarily incompatible. This is one of the main findings stressed upon in several chapters of this book.

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• Laboratoire d’Analyse des Systèmes Politiques, University Paris X-Nanterre, France

  Michel Dobry

Michel Dobry is Professor of Political Science at the University of Paris X, Nanterre, and Director of the Laboratoire d'Analyse des Systèmes Politiques (CNRS). His works have greatly contributed to the ongoing renewal of the analysis of processes of political crises and, more generally, critical political conjunctures.

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