After the Collapse of Communism

Comparative Lessons of Transition
Herausgeber: Mcfaul, Michael; Stoner-Weiss, Kathryn

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This collection of essays is the result of a conference convened at Princeton University marking the ten-year anniversary of the collapse of the Soviet Union. Some of the best minds in post-Soviet studies focused on the task of identifying in what ways the post-Communist experience with transition has confirmed or confounded conventional theories of political and economic development. The result is a rich array of essays examining vital aspects of the transitional decade following the Soviet collapse and the comparative lessons learned. These essays explicitly tally the gains and losses to post-Soviet countries of the last ten years as well as comparing the post-Soviet experience implicitly and explicitly with that of other developing countries. Each essay blends political science theory with fresh empirical analysis.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. September 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 449g
• ISBN-13: 9780521153553
• ISBN-10: 0521153557
• Artikelnr.: 32086922

Inhaltsangabe

Contributors; Introduction: the evolving social science of post Communism
Michael McFaul and Kathryn Stoner-Weiss; 1. The triumph of Nation-States:
lessons from the collapse of the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, and
Czechoslovakia Philip Roeder; 2. The fourth wave of democracy and
dictatorship: noncooperative transitions in the post-Communist world
Michael McFaul; 3. Circumstances versus policy choices: why has the
economic performance of the Soviet successive states been so poor? Vladimir
Popov; 4. Whither the Central State? The regional sources of Russia's
stalled reforms Kathryn Stoner-Weiss; 5. Parties, citizens, and the
prospects for democratic consolidation in Russia Timothy Colton; 6.
Comparative democratization: lessons from Russia and the post-Communist
World Valerie Bunce; 7. Russians as joiners: realist and liberal
conceptions of post-Communist Europe James M. Goldgeier and Michael McFaul;
Index.