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Perspectives on Political and Economic Transitions after Communism

Institute on East Central Europe

March, 1997


Contents

Introduction - by John S. Micgiel

I. Institutions and Political Parties in Transition

     

  • Electoral Law and Party System Formation in the New Democracies:
    The Case of Poland     - by Katarzyna Stanclik

         

  • Do Institutions Matter? Semipresidentialism
    in Comparative Perspective     - by Oleg Protsyk

         

  • Rethinking Political Continuity in East Central Europe - by Jason Wittenberg

    II. Current Policy Issues in the Transition

         

  • Human Rights in Russia: What Can NGOs Do? - by Georgi (Yuri) Dzhibladze

         

  • Rozvooruzhenie and Russia's Return to the World's Arms Market - by David R. Stone

         

  • Oil Exports as a Vehicle for Economic Development and Transition in Kazakhstan - by Magzhan M. Auezov

         

  • Education in Transition: Issues and Policies in Czech and Slovak Education - by Andrew Hess

    III. The Rule Of Law and the Transition

         

  • The Role of the Constitutional Court in Hungary's Economic Transition, 1990-1995 - by Barnabas Gero

         

  • Law and Nation in Post-Communist Romania - by Patricia Osmani

         

  • Law vs. Morality: An Introduction to the Theoretical Problem of Post-Communist Justice with Comparative Observations Focusing on Poland - by David P. Murgio

    IV. RUSSIA IN TRANSITION

         

  • Legitimacy and the Russian Federation: Transition or Continuity? - by Jason Lindsey

         

  • The "New" Russian Identity: Individual, Group and Empire in the Conceptualization of Citizenship - by Thomas Buck

         

  • Financial-Industrial Groups and Russia's Capitalism - by Natalia Dinello

    V. Political Elites and the Transition to Democracy

         

  • Clan Based Politics in Ukraine and the Implications for Democratization - by Gwynne Oosterbaan

         

  • The 1989 Roundtable Agreements in Poland: An Incomplete Elite Settlement - by Beata Pasek

         

  • The Breakup of Czechoslovakia and the Calculus of Consociationalism - byThomas Ambrosio