Theorizing Transition
The Political Economy of Post-Communist Transformations
Published on 31. August 2005
544 pages
978-1-134-71564-0 (ISBN)
Description
Theorizing Transition provides a comprehensive examination of the economic, political, social and cultural transformations in post-Communist countries and an important critique of transition theory and policy. The authors create the basis of a theoretical understanding of transition in terms of a political economy of capitalist development.
The diversity of forms and complexities of transition are examined through a wide range of examples from post-Soviet countries and comparative studies from countries such as Vietnam and China. Theorizing Transition challenges many of the comfortable assumptions unleashed by the euphoria of democratisation and the triumphalism of market capitalism in the early 1990s and shows transition to be much more complex than mainstream theory suggests.
The diversity of forms and complexities of transition are examined through a wide range of examples from post-Soviet countries and comparative studies from countries such as Vietnam and China. Theorizing Transition challenges many of the comfortable assumptions unleashed by the euphoria of democratisation and the triumphalism of market capitalism in the early 1990s and shows transition to be much more complex than mainstream theory suggests.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Reflowable
File size
2,83 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-134-71564-0 (9781134715640)
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John Pickles | Adrian Smith
Theorizing Transition
The Political Economy of Post-Communist Transformations
Book
04/1998
Routledge
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John Pickles | Adrian Smith
Theorizing Transition
The Political Economy of Post-Communist Transformations
Book
04/1998
Routledge
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Content
List of plates, List of figures, List of tables, List of contributors, Preface, Acknowledgements, List of abbreviations, 1 Introduction: theorising transition and the political economy of transformation, Part I Theorising transition, Part II Industrial restructuring, uneven development and networks in transition, Part III Social and political movements and the politics of agrarian transition, Part IV Social transformation and the reconstruction of identities, Part V From the developmental state to hybrid capitalisms: comparative transitions, Index
