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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463155103321

Autore

Connolly Richard

Titolo

The economic sources of social order development in post-socialist Eastern Europe / / Richard Connolly

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

0-203-09535-9

1-283-86141-0

1-136-21317-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (286 p.)

Collana

BASEES/Routledge series on Russian and East European studies ; ; 85

BASEES/Routledge series on Russian and East European Studies

Disciplina

330.947

Soggetti

Electronic books.

Former communist countries Economic conditions

Former communist countries Economic policy

Former communist countries Social policy

Former communist countries Politics and government

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

List of tables and figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Economic structure, the international economy, and social-order development -- Data description, measurement, and case selection -- The international economy and political economy in the post-socialist region : an historical overview -- Economic structure, the international economy and the collapse of the Soviet Union -- Russia : natural resource sectors and limited-access social order development -- Belarus and Romania : contrasting cases in structural transformation and social order development -- Estonia : economic diversification and open-access social order development -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

Nearly twenty years after the collapse of socialism, the countries of post-socialist Eastern Europe have experienced divergent trajectories of political development. This book looks at why this is the case, based on the assumption that societies, or social orders, can be distinguished by the extent to which competitive tendencies contained within them -



economic, political, social and cultural - are resolved according to open, rule-based processes.The book explores which economic conditions allow for increased levels of political competition, and it tests the hypothesis that the natu