Capitalism and Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe Ekiert Hanson Paperback

Capitalism and Democracy in Central and Eastern EuropeAssessing the Legacy of Communist Rule\nAuthor(s): Grzegorz Ekiert, Stephen E. Hanson\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9780521529853, 978-0521529853\nSynopsis\nThis volume presents a shared effort to apply a general historical-institutionalist approach to the problem of assessing institutional change in the wake of communism's collapse in Europe. It brings together a number of leading senior and junior scholars with outstanding reputations as specialists in postcommunism and comparative politics to address central theoretical and empirical issues involved in the study of postcommunism. The authors address such questions as how historical 'legacies' of the communist regime be defined, how their impact can be measured in methodologically rigorous ways, and how the effects of temporal and spatial context can be taken into account in empirical rese.