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Stubborn Structures: Reconceptualizing Post-Communist Regimes

by Bálint Magyar
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9789633862148
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Central European University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Central European University Press
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  • Pages: 712
  • Original Price: GBP 98.95
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 935 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Essays

The editor of this book has brought together contributions designed to capture the essence of post-communist politics in East-Central Europe and Eurasia. Rather than on the surface structures of nominal democracies, the nineteen essays focus on the informal, often intentionally hidden, disguised and illicit understandings and arrangements that penetrate formal institutions. These phenomena often escape even the best-trained outside observers, familiar with the concepts of established democracies. Contributors to this book share the view that understanding post-communist politics is best served by a framework that builds from the ground up, proceeding from a fundamental social context.

The book aims at facilitating a lexical convergence; in the absence of a robust vocabulary for describing and discussing these often highly complex informal phenomena, the authors wish to advance a new terminology of post-communist regimes. Instead of a finite dictionary, a kind of conceptual cornucopia is offered. The resulting variety reflects a larger harmony of purpose that can significantly expand the understanding the "real politics" of post-communist regimes. Countries analyzed from a variety of aspects, comparatively or as single case studies, include Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Hungary, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, and Ukraine.

Bálint Magyar is Research Fellow at CEU Democracy Institute, working on the subject of patronalism in post-communist countries.

He was a member of the Hungarian Parliament (1990-2010). As a Minister of Education (1996-1998; 2002-2006) he initiated and carried out reforms in public and higher education.

Henry E. Hale is Professor of Political Science and International Affairs at the Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University.

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