scholarly journals From postcommunist »transition« to the »doorstep of Europe«? Euroorientalisms in southern Albania

Traditiones ◽  
2013 ◽  
pp. 29-44
Author(s):  
Nataša Gregorič Bon
Keyword(s):  
Postcommunist Transition

How not to deal with the past: lustration in Poland

1999 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-55 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara A. Misztal
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
Political Institutions ◽  
Political System ◽  
Relative Strength ◽  
The Political ◽  
Partisan Politics ◽  
Old Regime ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of ◽  
Postcommunist Transition

By looking at the history of the Polish lustration — the policy of checking the past of candidates for important positions — this article argues that although the lustration law has been finally passed at the end of 1998, Poland's dealing with the past is still full of unresolved and deeply ambivalent problems due to the nature of its postcommunist transition and the nature of the newly constructed political institutions. These conditions were shaped by the relative strength of the Polish anti-communist opposition, which credibility within the society permitted it to accept a compromise with the old regime. The undetermined character of many of Poland's political institutions have accelerated the use of the issue of retrospective justice in the partisan politics, which in turn has limited the opportunity for consensual policy, and therefore has reduced societal trust of the political parties, while at the same time increased the demand for the purification of the political system.

TURNOVER IN POWER AS A RESTRAINT ON INVESTING IN INFLUENCE: EVIDENCE FROM THE POSTCOMMUNIST TRANSITION

2010 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 329-361 ◽  
Author(s):  
BRANKO MILANOVIC ◽  
KARLA HOFF ◽  
SHALE HOROWITZ
Keyword(s):  
Postcommunist Transition

scholarly journals Trends and Social Differences in Alcohol Consumption during the Postcommunist Transition in Lithuania

2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jurate Klumbiene ◽  
Darius Kalasauskas ◽  
Janina Petkeviciene ◽  
Aurelijus Veryga ◽  
Edita Sakyte
Keyword(s):  
Alcohol Drinking ◽  
Transition Period ◽  
Control Policy ◽  
Alcoholic Beverages ◽  
Social Differences ◽  
Alcohol Control ◽  
Regular Consumption ◽  
Postcommunist Transition ◽  
Nationally Representative ◽  
Further Development

The aim of the study was to evaluate the trends and social differences in consumption of various types of alcoholic beverages in Lithuania over the postcommunist transition period (1994–2010). The data were obtained from nine nationally representative postal surveys of Lithuanian population aged 20–64 conducted every second year (n=17154). Prevalence of regular (at least once a week) consumption of beer, wine, or strong alcoholic beverages and the amount of alcohol consumed per week were examined. Regular beer drinking as well as the amounts consumed increased considerably in both genders. The increase in regular consumption of strong alcohol was found among women. Sociodemographic patterning of regular alcohol drinking was more evident in women than in men. In women, young age and high education were associated with frequent regular drinking of wine and beer. Social differences in regular alcohol drinking should be considered in further development of national alcohol control policy in Lithuania.

Whither Russia? A Review of Andrei Shleifer's A Normal Country

2007 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 127-146 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ekaterina Zhuravskaya
Keyword(s):  
Fiscal Decentralization ◽  
Economic Transformation ◽  
Convincing Evidence ◽  
Harvard University ◽  
Recent History ◽  
Political Centralization ◽  
Postcommunist Transition

In this review, the author reflects on the heated debates around views about Russia's postcommunist transition expressed in essays collected in new Andrei Shleifer's book, A Normal Country: Russia after Communism (Harvard University Press, 2005), which were initially published at different times during transition. She focuses on the three questions that have been in the center of the debate among academics and policymakers: What should the sequencing and the speed of reforms be? Should a country have political centralization for fiscal decentralization to be efficient? Is Russia normal? The author argues that Russia's most recent history provides convincing evidence in support of the logic of political and economic transformation as it was understood by Shleifer as early as the beginning of the 1990s.

scholarly journals Bourdieu and Postcommunist Class Formation

2008 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. 129-141 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Outhwaite
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Capital ◽  
Class Formation ◽  
The West ◽  
Postcommunist Transition

This article suggests that Bourdieu's model of class, framed in terms of cultural capital and habitus, is particularly valuable in understanding the restoration of capitalism under postcommunist conditions. Following the analyses of Szelényi and his collaborators, it is suggested that post-communist managerialism is still strikingly more pronounced than in the West. This and the notion of habitus in particular are perhaps the main elements of Bourdieu's thinking on which we can draw in theorizing postcommunist transition.

Winners and Losers in the Postcommunist Transition: New Evidence from Estonia

1998 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 114-136 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mikk Titma ◽  
Nancy Brandon Tuma ◽  
Brian D. Silver
Keyword(s):  
Postcommunist Transition ◽  
New Evidence
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