State and Society in Post-Socialist Economies

State and Society in Post-Socialist Economies focuses on the reform economies of post-socialist Europe. It looks at how various projects of communism that emerged in have been and are still being dismantled and recomposed by alternative visions, institutions and practices of capitalist market economies and democratic polities.

MASSIMO CONGIU Journalist for Il Movimento and has worked for many years with trade unions on economic reform in post-socialist societies SANDRINE DEVAUX Faculty member in the Group of European Political Sociology, University of Robert Schuman, Strasbourg, France JAN DRAHOKOUPIL Garnet Research Fellow, Amsterdam School for Social Science Research, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands TATIANA G. DOLGOPYATOVA Professor, Department of Microeconomic Analysis, State University - Higher School of Economics, Russia KRISTEN GHODSEE Assistant Professor, Bowdoin College, USA BELA GRESKOVITS Professor of Political Science, Central European University, Hungary ÅSE BERIT GRØDELAND Researcher, Norwegian Institute of Urban and Regional Research, Norway KIRYL HAIDUK Department of International Relations and European Studies, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary JURGITA MACIULYTE Associate Professor, Department of Geography and Spatial Planning, Vilnius University, Lithuania SATOSHI MIZOBATA Professor, University of Kyoto, Kyoto Institute of Economic Research, Japan ARJAN VLIEGENTHART Amsterdam Research Centre for Corporate Governance Regulation (ARCCGOR), Vrije University, The Netherlands

The Spirit of Post-socialism; J.Pickles PART 1: ECONOMIC GOVERNANCE, THE STATE AND VARIETIES OF CAPITALISM Leading Sectors and the Variety of Capitalism in Eastern Europe; B.Greskovits Transnational Actors and Corporate Governance in ECE; A.Vliegenthart On the State of the State: Czech Transformation and the Moment of Convergence in the Visegrad Region; J.Drahokoupil Corporate Control Models in Russian Companies and Business Integration; T.G.Dolgopyatova Diverging and Harmonizing of Corporate Governance in Russia; S.Mizobata PART 2: SOCIAL MOBILIZATION AND ECONOMIC TRANFORMATION State-Society Relations in Belarus; K.Haiduk Labour Markets and Trade Unions in Four New Member Countries of the European Union; M.Congiu Cultural Capital, State Regulation and Tourism in Post-Socialist Bulgaria; K.Ghodsee State Policies, Uneven Development and Environmental Regulation in Urban and Rural Lithuania; J.Maciulyte Building a Social Cause in Post-Communist Countries: The case of the Ecology in the Czech Republic; S.Devaux Informal Practice, Cultural Capital and Politics in the Czech Republic, Slovenia, Bulgaria and Romania; Å.B.Grødeland Conclusion: State, Society and Hybrid Post-Socialist Economies; J.Pickles