Routledge Studies of Societies in Transition
About the Book Series
In the last decade the former communist states of East and Central Europe have witnessed extraordinary and fundamental transformations in society, politics and economy. This new series brings together scholars in the field to examine wide-ranging aspects of this ongoing process of transition.
Work, Employment and Transition
1st Edition
Edited
By Al Rainnie, Adrian Smith, Adam Swain
March 29, 2002
Since the late 1980s the experiences of work and employment in the former communist world have been profoundly transformed. Work, Employment and Transition brings together a series of essays by leading international scholars which highlights the varied and complex forms that work and employment ...
Environmental Problems in East-Central Europe
2nd Edition
Edited
By Frank Carter, David Turnock
December 29, 2001
In this new edition, the progress made in the last decade to solve the environmental problems described in the first edition is assessed. The attempts to bring environmental legislation into line with West European norms is also described. Environmental Problems of East-Central Europe looks at air ...
Poverty in Transition Economies
1st Edition
Edited
By Sandra Hutton, Gerry Redmond
June 06, 2000
This study addresses the experience of, and responses to poverty in a range of transition economies including Russia, Ukraine, Hungary, Slovenia, Uzbekistan, Romania, Albania and Macedonia. It covers topics such as the definition of poverty lines and the measurement of poverty; the role of ...
Experimenting With Democracy: Regime Change in the Balkans
1st Edition
Edited
By Tom Gallagher, Geoffrey Pridham
February 01, 2000
The chronic instability in the Balkan States of South East Europe has prevented the end of the Cold War becoming an era of genuine peace in Europe. Against a background of competing nationalisms, economic decline, the resilience of authoritarianism, it is easy to forget that there have been ...
Polish Politics and Society
1st Edition
By Frances Millard
September 17, 1999
An examination of political, social and economic development in Poland since the summer of 1989, with the main focus on democratization....
Organizational Change in Post-Communist Europe: Management and Transformation in the Czech Republic
1st Edition
By Ed Clark, Anna Soulsby
January 05, 1999
This book provides a unique and detailed examination of the complex processes of transformation in former state-owned enterprises in the Czech Republic. Drawing on in-depth case studies of organizational transformation, the authors adopt a social-institutionalist approach to the study of ...
Privatizing the Land: Rural Political Economy in Post-Communist and Socialist Societies
1st Edition
Edited
By Ivan Szelenyi
June 26, 1998
Privatizing the Land provides an overview of reforms in the state socialist agrarian systems, especially during the 1970s and 1980s in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. Using empirical evidence, the contributors provide a balanced assessment of how agrarian economies performed in different ...
Political Economy of Transition: Opportunities and Limits of Transformation
1st Edition
By Jozef M. van Brabant
May 06, 1998
This book addresses the policy questions surrounding the challenge of transforming eastern European economies from their planned, administrative past to vibrant market-based entities. Jozef van Brabant considers in turn, the wider set of challenges facing these economies - stabilization, ...
Institutional Barriers to Economic Development: Poland's Incomplete Transition
1st Edition
Edited
By Jan Winiecki
December 24, 1997
Poland's transition from socialism to capitalism has largely been praised as a success story. In reality, however, according to this study, Poland's case is an 'incomplete' transition. Looking at the processes involved in economic transition, covering key issues including financial markets, labour ...
The Polish Solidarity Movement: Revolution, Democracy and Natural Rights
1st Edition
By Arista M. Cirtautas
November 10, 1997
This book provides a groundbreaking analysis of democratization in Poland by placing Solidarity in the context of the major democratic upheavals of modernity: the French and American Revolutions. This study undertakes the first full historical comparison of the Polish movement with the ideals and ...