The collapse of communism in 1989 paved the way for the reunification of the continent. This book analyzes the impact of the different dynamics of change since 1989 on public policy and on various economic and political sectors.

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FRANÇOIS BAFOIL is a Senior Research Fellow (CNRS) at CERI-Sciences Po, France.

Inhalt
Introduction: Modernization, Europeanization and Path Dependency The Legacies. Picture of a Political Economy of Soviet-Style Socialism PART I: THE FORMATION OF THE CENTRAL STATES: THE REFORMS OF OWNERSHIP, SOCIAL WELFARE AND ADMINISTRATION Privatization and the Formation of East European States The Reforms of the Welfare States Regionalization Reforms and the Redistribution of Powers between Central and Regional Actors PART I: SOCIETIES AND MARKETS. WORKERS, PEASANTS, LABOUR UNIONS, ASSOCIATIONS, COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS Workers and Managers. Local Compromises and the End of the Working Classes The Agricultural Question. Public Laissez-faire and the Recomposition of Individual Strategies Labor Relations. The Weakness of the Social Dialogue Civil Societies. Networks of Sociability, Associations, and Public Debates The Development of the Social Structures and the Formation of New Cleavages