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Capital, Coercion, and Postcommunist States

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Description for Capital, Coercion, and Postcommunist States Paperback. Num Pages: 248 pages, 12, 12 tables. BIC Classification: KCP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 158 x 16. Weight in Grams: 384.

The postcommunist transitions produced two very different types of states. The "contractual" state is associated with the countries of Eastern Europe, which moved toward democratic regimes, consensual relations with society, and clear boundaries between political power and economic wealth. The "predatory" state is associated with the successors to the USSR, which instead developed authoritarian regimes, coercive relations with society, and poorly defined boundaries between the political and economic realms. In Capital, Coercion, and Postcommunist States, Gerald M. Easter shows how the cumulative result of the many battles between state coercion and societal capital over taxation gave rise to these distinctive ... Read more

Easter’s fiscal sociology of the postcommunist state highlights the interconnected paths that led from the fiscal crisis of the old regime through the revenue bargains of transitional tax regimes to the eventual reconfiguration of state-society relations. His focused comparison of Poland and Russia exemplifies postcommunism’s divergent institutional forms. The Polish case shows how conflicts over taxation influenced the emergence of a rule-of-law contractual state, social-market capitalism, and civil society. The Russian case reveals how revenue imperatives reinforced the emergence of a rule-by-law predatory state, concessions-style capitalism, and dependent society.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801478246
SKU
V9780801478246
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About Gerald Easter
Gerald M. Easter is Associate Professor of Political Science at Boston College. He is the author of Reconstructing the State: Personal Networks and Elite Identity in Soviet Russia.

Reviews for Capital, Coercion, and Postcommunist States
"A sagacious narrative based on painstaking analysis of primary sources, the book weaves economic structure, political dynamics, and institutional constraints into a comprehensive picture of the evolving postcommunist state-society...Capital, Coercion, and Postcommunist States presents a remarkably well-researched history of state revenue extraction that builds on a penetrating analysis of the countries' laws, economic statistics, public opinion surveys, press reports, memoirs, ... Read more

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