The New Great Transformation?: Change and Continuity in East-Central Europe

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
List of contributors......Page 10
Acknowledgements......Page 13
Introduction: theorizing the changes in East-Central Europe......Page 14
After the patronage state: a model in search of class interests......Page 27
In pursuit of the democratic interest: the institutionalization of parties and interests in Eastern Europe......Page 49
Economic utopianism and sociological realism: strategies for transformation in East-Central Europe......Page 71
Values and the welfare state in Czechoslovakia......Page 91
Revolution and restoration: on the origins of right-wing radical ideology in Hungary......Page 112
The power structure in Hungary after the political transition......Page 133
Privatization in East-Central Europe: similarities and contrasts in its application......Page 157
The great transformation and privatization: three years of Polish experience......Page 184
The great deformation: Polanyi, Poland and the terrors of planned spontaneity......Page 204
Is there an alternative to market utopianism? A comment on Glasman......Page 231
Index......Page 235