China's Transitional Economy: Interpreting its Significance

1995 ◽  
Vol 144 ◽  
pp. 963-979 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew G. Walder
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Former Soviet Union ◽  
Real Income ◽  
Transitional Economy ◽  
Political Crisis ◽  
The Political ◽  
Asian Tiger ◽  
Political Foundations

China's post-Mao economic reforms have generated rapid and sustained economic growth, unprecedented rises in real income and living standards, and have transformed what was once one of the world's most insular economies into a major trading nation. The contrast between China's transitional economy and those in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union could not be more striking. Where the latter struggle with severe recessions and pronounced declines in real income, China has looked more like a sprinting East Asian “tiger” than a plodding Soviet-style dinosaur mired in the swamps of transition. The realization that reform measures and energetic growth continue even after the political crisis of 1989 has made China a subject of intense interest far outside the customary confines of the China field. Understood increasingly as a genuine success story, it is moving to the centre of international policy debates about what is to be done to transform the stagnating economies of Eastern Europe, and various aspects of its case now figure prominently in academic analyses ranging from theories of the firm and property rights to the political foundations of economic growth.

Cold War Eastern Europe

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 20-27
Author(s):  
Susan Maret
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Former Soviet Union ◽  
The Political ◽  
Foreign Office

Cold War Eastern Europe (CEE) provides access to files from the political departments of the U.K. Foreign Office, including embassies and consulates, located within countries of the Former Soviet Union. CEE consists of three modules, that together, cover the years 1953-1975 and include approximately 13,700 source files. CEE contains historical essays written by its editorial board; a timeline and facts files on communism and key people supplement content. The CEE platform is intuitive for users who have background in searching other Taylor & Francis collections such as the Secret Files from World Wars to Cold War; less experienced searchers may require training and assistance with certain features. Pricing was not available at the time of this review.

scholarly journals Humour and Protest: Jokes under Communism

2007 ◽  
Vol 52 (S15) ◽  
pp. 291-305 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christie Davies
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Former Soviet Union ◽  
Political System ◽  
Safety Valve ◽  
Political Control ◽  
The Political ◽  
Communist Countries ◽  
The Relationship

The largest corpus of jokes we have ridiculing both rulers and a political system comes from the former Soviet Union and the then communist countries of eastern Europe. These forbidden jokes were important to those who told them at some risk to themselves. They can be construed as a form of protest, but the relationship between jokes and protest is not a simple one. The number of jokes told was greater, and the telling more open, in the later years of the regimes than in the earlier years of terror and extreme hardship. The number of jokes is a product of the extensiveness of political control, not its intensity. Such jokes probably have no effect either in undermining a regime or in acting as a stabilizing safety valve. However, they were a quiet protest, an indication that the political system lacked stability and could collapse quickly.

scholarly journals EXTERNAL FINANCE IN TRANSITION ECONOMIES: CGE MODELS APPLIED TO POLAND AND HUNGARY

2001 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. I. Cohen
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Transition Economies ◽  
Former Soviet Union ◽  
Financial Resources ◽  
External Finance ◽  
Cge Models ◽  
Production Prices

The transition economies of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union have implemented at the eve of the transition public measures to promote economic growth and income protection. The success of the policies is very much dependent on the availability of external finance. By calibrating for a country like Poland CGE models for 1987 and 1990 and simulating such measures it is possible to explore likely changes over these years and the effects of these measures on the sectoral and total levels of production, prices, as well as factor remuneration and use. The analysis is complemented with applications for Hungary in 1988 and 1990. The results show commonalties but also differences between the two countries in their dependence on foreign financial resources necessary for the transition.

Coalitional Presidentialism in Cross-Regional Perspective

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Chaisty ◽  
Nic Cheeseman ◽  
Timothy J. Power
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
Former Soviet Union ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Landscape ◽  
Case Selection ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
Empirical Material ◽  
Regional Perspective

This chapter introduces the three regions—sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, and the Former Soviet Union—and the nine countries—Armenia, Benin, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Kenya, Malawi, Russia, and Ukraine—that provide the empirical material for the book. It introduces the two criteria used for case selection: 1) democratic competitiveness; 2) de jure and de facto constitutional provisions that empower presidents to be coalitional formateurs. It also introduces a variable that measures the salience of cross-party cooperation: the Index of Coalitional Necessity. Finally, it sketches the political landscape that has shaped the dynamics of coalitional presidentialism within each region, and it draws attention to important contextual differences between the nine country cases.

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