External actors and their influences on the quality of democracy in East Central Europe

In this article, Carolyn Forestiere investigates political volatility as a way to explain varying levels of governance across the new democracies of east central Europe. Specifically, legislative and executive volatility are examined. The results suggest that differences in legislative volatility help explain variations in governance, especially during the beginning of a new democracy. Once party systems begin to consolidate, however, differences in executive volatility begin to matter more. A case study of Poland confirms some of Forestiere's conclusions. While the legislative party system has shown some signs of stabilization, executive volatility remains a salient political problem, which over time has led to a steady decline in the quality of governance.

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power of path dependence? State capacity and autonomy in East Central Europe during transition

Competitio ◽

10.21845/comp/2004/1/11 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 3 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Zoltan Adam

Keyword(s):

Central Europe ◽

Structural Transformation ◽

Path Dependence ◽

Economic Transformation ◽

Economic Policies ◽

East Central Europe ◽

East Central ◽

Economic Changes ◽

Over Time

The paper examines development of state capacities and autonomy in East Central Europe during transition, and attempts to establish a relation between state characteristics and trajectories of economic transformation, especially with regard to privatisation and FDI. The assertion is that the quality of state capacities and the degree of state autonomy, although changing over time, mutually reinforces the formulating of economic policies, and hence in structural transformation. Thus, state characteristics are important determinants of transition outcome, but are themselves affected by structural economic changes.

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The Establishment of the Balkan National States, 1804-1920, by Charles and Barbara Jelavich. Vol. viii of A History of East Central Europe, edited by Peter F. Sugar and Donald W. TreadgoldThe Establishment of the Balkan National States, 1804-1920, by Charles and Barbara Jelavich. Vol. viii of A History of East Central Europe, edited by Peter F. Sugar and Donald W. Treadgold. University of Washington Press, Seattle and London, 1978. xv, 344 pp. $18.95

Canadian Journal of History ◽

10.3138/cjh.14.2.305 ◽

1979 ◽

Vol 14 (2) ◽

pp. 305-306

Author(s):

Alan Cunningham

Keyword(s):

Central Europe ◽

University Of Washington ◽

East Central Europe ◽

East Central ◽

History Of

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The Effects of World War I: The Class War After the Great War: The Rise of Communist Parties in East Central Europe, 1918-1921, edited by Ivo Banac, New Hungarian Peasants: An East Central European Experience with Collectivization, edited by M. Hollos and B. C. MadayThe Effects of World War I: The Class War After the Great War: The Rise of Communist Parties in East Central Europe, 1918-1921, edited by Ivo Banac. (War and Society in East Central Europe, Vol. 13). New York, distributed by Columbia University Press (for East European Monographs), 1983. xv, 277 pp. $27.50.New Hungarian Peasants: An East Central European Experience with Collectivization, edited by M. Hollos and B. C. Maday. (Brooklyn College Studies on Society in Change, 32). New York, distributed by Columbia University Press (for East European Monographs), 1983. x, 341 pp. $25.00.

Canadian Journal of History ◽

10.3138/cjh.19.2.317 ◽

1984 ◽

Vol 19 (2) ◽

pp. 317-319

Author(s):

Stanley Z. Pech

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

World War I ◽

Central Europe ◽

Columbia University ◽

East Central Europe ◽

East Central ◽

East European ◽

European Experience ◽

The Great War ◽

East Central European

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European Multinational Companies and Trade Unions in Eastern and East-Central Europe

SSRN Electronic Journal ◽

10.2139/ssrn.3593426 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Martin Myant

Keyword(s):

Central Europe ◽

Trade Unions ◽

Multinational Companies ◽

East Central Europe ◽

East Central

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Considering the Sub-Regional Cooperation in East-Central Europe – Some Conclusions on Integrating and Disintegrating Tendencies in the Sub-Regional Dialogue

Canadian Journal of European and Russian Studies ◽

10.22215/cjers.v10i1.2494 ◽

2016 ◽

Author(s):

Jacek Wieclawski

Keyword(s):

Central Europe ◽

Regional Cooperation ◽

The European Union ◽

East Central Europe ◽

East Central ◽

New Ideas ◽

Ukrainian Crisis ◽

Regional Interests ◽

Visegrad Group ◽

East Central European

This article discusses the problems of the sub-regional cooperation in East-Central Europe. It formulates the general conclusions and examines the specific case of the Visegrad Group as the most advanced example of this cooperation. The article identifies the integrating and disintegrating tendencies that have so far accompanied the sub-regional dialogue in East-Central Europe. Yet it claims that the disintegrating impulses prevail over the integrating impulses. EastCentral Europe remains diversified and it has not developed a single platform of the sub-regional dialogue. The common experience of the communist period gives way to the growing difference of the sub-regional interests and the ability of the East-Central European members to coordinate their positions in the European Union is limited. The Visegrad Group is no exception in this regard despite its rich agenda of social and cultural contacts. The Russian-Ukrainian conflict confirms a deep divergence of interests among the Visegrad states that seems more important for the future of the Visegrad cooperation than the recent attempts to mark the Visegrad unity in the European refugee crisis. Finally, the Ukrainian crisis and the strengthening of the NATO’s “Eastern flank” may contribute to some new ideas of the sub-regional cooperation in East-Central Europe, to include the Polish-Baltic rapprochement or the closer dialogue between Poland and Romania. Full text available at: https://doi.org/10.22215/rera.v10i1.251

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