Central and Eastern Europe: Europeanization and social change

✍ Scribed by François Bafoil

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 257
• Series: CERI Series in International Relations and Political Economy
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The collapse of communism in 1989 paved the way for the reunification of the continent. For Eastern European countries, the reaffirmation of their political, economic and social independence took place simultaneously within a context marked by globabization and the rules of the European union. This book analyses the impact of the different dynamics of change since 1989 on public policy and on various economic and political sectors. The author’s approach is elaborated in terms of strategies, conflicts, alliances and resources anchored in the communist period, sometimes even before, and revitalized by the new rules of the game. He studies the way in which national traditions of sovereignty within the new States combined with 21st century economic and political liberalism. By emphasizing the intensity and rapidity of the dynamics of change which have taken place since 1989, the author shows both the new States’ ability to adopt global and European rules and their determination to subscribe fully to the Europe of today.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
List of Tables......Page 8
Introduction: Modernization, Europeanization, and Path Dependency......Page 10
One: The Legacies. Picture of a Political Economy of Soviet-Style Socialism......Page 24
Part 1 The Formation of the Central States......Page 56
Two: Privatization and the Formation of East European States......Page 58
Three: The Reforms of the Welfare States......Page 76
Four: Regionalization Reforms and the Redistribution of Powers between Central and Regional Actors......Page 92
Part 2 Societies and Markets......Page 114
Five: Workers and Managers. Local Compromises and the End of the Working Classes......Page 116
Six: The Agricultural Question. Public Laissez-faire and the Recomposition of Individual Strategies......Page 136
Seven: Labor Relations. The Weakness of the Social Dialogue......Page 156
Eight: Civil Societies. Networks of Sociability, Associations, and Public Debates......Page 176
Nine: The Development of the Social Structures and the Formation of New Cleavages......Page 194
Ten: General Conclusion......Page 216
Notes......Page 220
Bibliography......Page 238
C......Page 254
I......Page 255
S......Page 256
W......Page 257