Assisting economic transformation in central and eastern Europe: correlates of program usefulness

1999 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 231-241
Author(s):  
Ronald J. Burke ◽  
Graeme MacDermid
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
Economic Transformation

Dilemma of Simultaneity

2019 ◽  
pp. 471-479
Author(s):  
Ilyas Saliba ◽  
Wolfgang Merkel
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
Economic Transformation ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Political Transformation ◽  
The Third ◽  
Transformation Processes

The theory of the dilemma of simultaneity is empirically based on the transformations of post-socialist states in Central and Eastern Europe. The transformations after the collapse of the socialist bloc were without precedent with regards to breadth and depth. The dilemma of simultaneity consists of three parallel transition processes on three dimensions. The first part of this chapter explores the three dimensions of the transitions: nation building, political transformation, and economic transformation. The second part discusses the three levels of transformation: (1) ethno-national identity and territory, (2) polity, and (3) socio-economic distribution. The third part highlights the complexity and challenges of multidimensional simultaneous transformation processes. The fourth and fifth parts discuss the role of international actors and socio-economic structures on the transitions in Central and Eastern Europe. The chapter concludes with an account of Elster’s and Offe’s critics and their response.

scholarly journals Competitive Rent-Seeking, Socioeconomic Infrastructures, and Post-Communist Transition in Central and Eastern Europe

2019 ◽  
Vol 01 (02) ◽  
pp. 1950005
Author(s):  
Jia Chen ◽  
Ge Xin
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
Rent Seeking ◽  
Economic Transformation ◽  
Economic Liberalization ◽  
Market Mechanism ◽  
Comparative Case Study ◽  
Soviet Bloc ◽  
Market Interaction ◽  
Regime Types

The political and economic transformation of former Soviet Bloc Europe has been far-reaching in the last 30 years. Although most former socialist countries in Central and Eastern Europe abandoned the Communist ancien régime, not all of them managed to fully integrate liberal democracy and market economy into society. Some scholars explained this divergence in development through the dichotomous regime types. From the perspective of what propels the retreat of political power from market and with the theory of competitive rent-seeking, we demonstrate that the retreating logic is underlain by the competition between rent-seekers. A competitive rent-seeking regime dissipates the rent through distorting market mechanism and dampens both political authority and rent-seeker’s enthusiasm, providing a better prospect for economic liberalization. Through a comparative case study of transitional experiences of Hungary and Belarus, we find that countries with pre-existing socioeconomic infrastructures that facilitate the formation of competitive rent-seeking regime are more successful in economic liberalization. We suggest that the academic interest previously paid to dichotomous regime-type argument should be diverted into a deeper inquiry of the evolution of socioeconomic institutions that shape the state–market interaction.

scholarly journals Mobility of central and Eastern European societies at the beginning of the post-socialist transformation

2005 ◽  
pp. 71-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
Slobodan Cvejic
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Economic Transformation ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
Comparative Framework ◽  
Structural Mobility ◽  
Middle Strata ◽  
Very High

This paper gives a comparative overview of inter-generational mobility in 7 countries of Central and Eastern Europe, including Serbia, at an early stage of postsocialist transformation. The analysis was based upon surveys organized in these countries in 1993. Basic findings show that a great social and economic transformation does not lead to a great structural mobility. The processes of formation and reproduction of the strata of political and economic managers and small entrepreneurs to some extent make an exception in this sense. These processes are marked by higher openness as compared to other strata. In such a comparative framework Serbia appears to be structurally the most closed one, more closed even than other countries that could be classified as countries with a blocked transformation (Bulgaria and Russia). Very high self-reproduction of managerial and middle strata make an essence of the low mobility of the Serbian society.

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