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State and Society in Post-Socialist Economies

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  • © 2008

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Editors:
  1. John Pickles

    1. Department of Geography, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA

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Part of the book series: Studies in Central and Eastern Europe (SCEE)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. The Spirit of Post-Socialism: ‘What Is to Be Understood by It?’

    1. The Spirit of Post-Socialism: ‘What Is to Be Understood by It?’

      • John Pickles
      Pages 1-16

  4. Social Mobilization and Economic Transformation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 141-141
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    2. State-Society Relations in Belarus: A ‘labour dimension’

      • Kiryl Haiduk
      Pages 143-157

    3. Trade Unions and the Labour Market in Four New European Union Member States

      • Massimo Congiu
      Pages 158-168

    4. You ‘Can’ Take It with You: Cultural Capital, State Regulation and Tourism in Post-socialist Bulgaria

      • Kristen Ghodsee
      Pages 169-190

    5. State Policies, Uneven Economic Development and Environmental Regulation in Urban and Rural Lithuania

      • Jurgita Maciulyte
      Pages 191-207

    6. Building a Social Cause in Post-Communist Countries: Ecological Politics in the Czech Republic

      • Sandrine Devaux
      Pages 208-228

    7. Informal Practice, Cultural Capital and Politics in the Czech Republic, Slovenia, Bulgaria and Romania

      • Åse B. Grødeland
      Pages 229-252

    8. Conclusion: State, Society and Hybrid Post-Socialist Economies

      • John Pickles
      Pages 253-262

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 263-281
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State and Society in Post-Socialist Economies focuses on the reform economies of post-socialist Europe. It looks at how various projects of communism that emerged in have been and are still being dismantled and recomposed by alternative visions, institutions and practices of capitalist market economies and democratic polities.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Geography, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA

    John Pickles

About the editor

MASSIMO CONGIU Journalist for Il Movimento and has worked for many years with trade unions on economic reform in post-socialist societies SANDRINE DEVAUX Faculty member in the Group of European Political Sociology, University of Robert Schuman, Strasbourg, France JAN DRAHOKOUPIL Garnet Research Fellow, Amsterdam School for Social Science Research, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands TATIANA G. DOLGOPYATOVA Professor, Department of Microeconomic Analysis, State University - Higher School of Economics, Russia KRISTEN GHODSEE Assistant Professor, Bowdoin College, USA BELA GRESKOVITS Professor of Political Science, Central European University, Hungary ÅSE BERIT GRØDELAND Researcher, Norwegian Institute of Urban and Regional Research, Norway KIRYL HAIDUK Department of International Relations and European Studies, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary JURGITA MACIULYTE Associate Professor, Department of Geography and Spatial Planning, Vilnius University, Lithuania SATOSHI MIZOBATA Professor, University of Kyoto, Kyoto Institute of Economic Research, Japan ARJAN VLIEGENTHART Amsterdam Research Centre for Corporate Governance Regulation (ARCCGOR), Vrije University, The Netherlands

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