This book is a methodologically self-conscious and intellectually ambitious effort to advance the social science debate on postcommunist transformation beyond the limitations of its first decade. Offering theoretically innovative and empirically current analyses of fundamental economic, cultural, and political problems of systemic change and reform in central and Eastern Europe, the authors broaden and deepen the research agenda by developing a set of interrelated approaches that are cross-disciplinary, sociologically informed, historically comparative, and global. The book's major substantive themes revolve around problems of postcommunist socioeconomic transformations. Specifically, the book explores postcommunist systemic change, the role of religion and collective identity, the significance of trust and economic culture, patterns of state-economy interactions in enterprise restructuring, the context of EU expansion, the strengths and weaknesses of economic theory and neoliberal doctrine, and the history of ideas in the postcommunist transformation debate. Bringing together leading experts in the field to illustrate the fruitfulness of multidisciplinary analysis in understanding socioeconomic transitions, this work will be valuable for economists, sociologists, and political scientists alike.

About the Author
Frank Boenker is lecturer at the Department of Economics at European University Viadrina, Frankfurt. Klaus Muller is assistant professor of sociology at Friedrich Schiller Universitat, Jena. Andreas Pickel is associate professor of political science at Trent University, Ontario.

Reviews
Taken as a whole, the volume represents an important contribution to the transition agenda, for the individual contributions offer corrections to that agenda. * Slavic Review *
A meaty, original, comparative study of socioeconomic change in the former Soviet system. The scholarship is uniformly excellent. An exciting work! -- Edward A. Tiryakian, Duke University



Book Information
ISBN 9780742518384
Author Frank Boenker
Format Hardback
Page Count 304
Imprint Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Publisher Rowman & Littlefield
Weight(grams) 562g
Dimensions(mm) 236mm * 159mm * 27mm