Starting from Professor Kornai's assertion about the necessity to focus on the long-term perspectives of the transformation process, we analyze in this paper the Lisbon performance of the countries of the European Union from such a long-term, structural perspective.

This text tries to answer tentatively such a difficult and strategic question, and quantitatively compares the performance of several publishers, which in between them control a sizeable share of the social science academic book publishing market in such fields of political science as...