Out of the Red: Building Capitalism and Democracy in Postcommunist Europe (Development and Inequality in the Market Economy) - Softcover

Orenstein, Mitchell A.

 
9780472067466: Out of the Red: Building Capitalism and Democracy in Postcommunist Europe (Development and Inequality in the Market Economy)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 047206746X ISBN 13: 9780472067466
Verlag: The University of Michigan Press, 2001

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After the fall of the Berlin Wall, the countries of East-Central Europe embarked on a journey to transform themselves into democratic capitalist societies. Their governments searched for strategies that would allow them to pursue radical market reforms within the context of nascent democratic politics. Poland adopted a neoliberal strategy that attempted to push through as much reform as possible before an antireform backlash could occur. In the Czech Republic, a social liberal strategy for transformation attempted to combine neoliberal macro-economic policies with social democratic measures designed to avert such a backlash.
A detailed analysis of Poland and the Czech Republic suggests that alternation between strategies has been the secret to the success of East-Central European countries.
This comparative case analysis identifies the significance of reform mistakes during transition and the corrective benefits of policy alternation, its claims illustrated with an in-depth study of privatization policy in the two countries.
Mitchell A. Orenstein delves into the historic struggle to build capitalism and democracy during a decade of post- communist transition in East-Central Europe and develops a model that explains why democratic policy alternation may accelerate policy learning under conditions of uncertainty and constraint.
Out of the Red is accessible to a general audience and as such is suitable for both graduate and undergraduate courses on political economy. It will be of particular interest to economists, political scientists, sociologists, students of postcommunism, and anyone interested in the relations between capitalism and democracy in the contemporary world.
Mitchell A. Orenstein is Assistant Professor of Political Science, Syracuse University.

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Verlag
The University of Michigan Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2001
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
047206746X
ISBN 13 
9780472067466
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166
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ISBN 10:  0472097466 ISBN 13:  9780472097463
Verlag: University of Michigan Press, 2001
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