Beschreibung:
This book examines the problems and issues facing formerly communist states as they seek to develop a new democratic political order and a market economy.
1. Introduction: agenda, agency, and aims of Central East European transitions; 2. Mapping Eastern Europe; 3. Constitutional politics in Eastern Europe; 4. Building and consolidating democracies; 5. Building capitalism in Eastern Europe; 6. Social policy transformation; 7. Consolidation and the cleavages of ideology and identity; 8. Conclusion: the unfinished project.