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"The collapse of the Communist regimes after 1989, the closing of a long historical parenthesis, was a momentous event. In this study of the Hungarian transition John Schiemann offers the first analytical account of one of these processes, with wide implications for transitions more generally. In a compelling picture of bargaining under uncertainty, he shows how differing attitudes to risk rather than conflicting political demands generated the dynamics of the transition. It is a book that should be obligatory reading for students of regime change, who too easily come to see as inevitable what for the actors themselves was a highly contingent set of events. The Hungarian communists may have been moribund, but the world did not know it until they were dead." - Jon Elster, Robert K. Merton Professor of Social Science, Columbia University
'This highly original study adds greatly to our knowledge of pact-making and political bargaining by forcing us to think beyond the categoriess of 'regime' and 'opposition' and recognize that the role of risk-takers and risk-avoiders within each category is pivotal to any outcome. Beginning with meticulous research on the Hungarian case and then expanding to three other cases for a rigorous test of the author's argument, this book solves a key puzzle about who wins and who loses in the bargains that lie at the foundation of failed and successful regime change. This is an enlightening study that truly deserves a wide audience.'
- Nancy Bermeo, Professor of Politics, Princeton University
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Book Title: The Politics of Pact-Making
Book Subtitle: Hungary's Negotiated Transition to Democracy in Comparative Perspective
Authors: John W. Schiemann
Series Title: Political Evolution and Institutional Change
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403978578
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Political & Intern. Studies Collection, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2005
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-7109-8Published: 13 December 2005
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-53273-5Published: 23 December 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4039-7857-8Published: 11 December 2015
Series ISSN: 2945-6452
Series E-ISSN: 2945-6460
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 217
Topics: Comparative Politics, International Relations, Democracy