The Transition
Subtitle: Evaluating the Postcommunist Experience
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Published: December 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 182
ISBN-13: 9780754630616
Subjects: Marxism & Communism; Political structures: democracy; Transitional economies; 21st century; c 1990 to c 2000; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe); Warsaw Pact, Eastern bloc; Political Process - General; Political Ideologies - Communism & Socialism; Democratization; Post-communism
Description: Lovell (politics, U. of South Wales and Australian Defence Force Academy) presents ten chapters that look at the transition of the post-communist states of Europe from within the broader theoretical framework of "democratization." The first few contributions look at broad theoretical issues such institutional experience with direct democracy, theories of state-transformation, and democratization and civil society. The remainder of the papers look apply such considerations to examinations of Russia, Azerbaijan, Poland, and Germany.