Leaders and Laggards
Lavinia Stan
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Description for Leaders and Laggards
Hardcover. The collapse of European communist regimes provided social scientists with an opportunity to observe the birth of new political institutions and to examine the effect of political behavior on institutional change. This book explores the extent to which social capital affected the performance of one such institution, the Romanian county council. Num Pages: 240 pages, map. BIC Classification: 1DVWR; 3JJP; HBJD; HBLW; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 149 x 25. Weight in Grams: 681.
The collapse of the European communist regimes has provided social scientists with the rare opportunity to observe the birth of new political institutions and to reexamine the effect of political behavior on institutional change. In the last decade, scholars and policy makers have argued that new institiutional frameworks from the democratic world would solve Eastern Europe's many economic and political problems. This volume builds on the work of Robert Putnam to argue that what makes institutions democratic goes beyond state arrangements to the realm of society. The new institutions in Eastern Europe performed differently in various countries, although their formal ... Read more
The collapse of the European communist regimes has provided social scientists with the rare opportunity to observe the birth of new political institutions and to reexamine the effect of political behavior on institutional change. In the last decade, scholars and policy makers have argued that new institiutional frameworks from the democratic world would solve Eastern Europe's many economic and political problems. This volume builds on the work of Robert Putnam to argue that what makes institutions democratic goes beyond state arrangements to the realm of society. The new institutions in Eastern Europe performed differently in various countries, although their formal ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
East European Monographs United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Bradenton, United States
ISBN
9780880335133
SKU
V9780880335133
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About Lavinia Stan
Lavinia Stan is director of the Center for Post-Communist Studies at St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia.
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