1st Edition

Theorizing Transition The Political Economy of Post-Communist Transformations

Edited By John Pickles, Adrian Smith Copyright 1998
548 Pages
by Routledge

544 Pages
by Routledge

544 Pages
by Routledge

Theorizing Transition provides a comprehensive examination of the development of the economic, political, social and cultural transformations in post-Communist Europe and offers 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... Read more
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

Biography

Pickles, John; Smith, Adrian