Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: The Decline of Tax Politics in Eastern Europe -- Chapter 2: Creating a Capitalist Tax Structure after Communism -- Chapter 3: Ceding Control: European Integration and Consumption Taxes -- Chapter 4: The Race to the Bottom? Corporate Taxes and...

This manuscript examines the rapid spread of pension privatization and the flat tax in former communist countries in order to understand why new policy ideas take hold and to better understand the role played by material resources in the diffusion of new policy ideas. Unlike previous...

After the collapse of communism in the Soviet Union and eastern Europe, more than a dozen countries undertook aggressive privatization programs. Proponents of economic reform championed such large-scale efforts as the fastest, most reliable way to make the transition from a state-run to a...

The postcommunist countries were amongst the most fervent and committed adopters of neoliberal economic reforms. Not only did they manage to overcome the anticipated domestic opposition to 'shock therapy' and Washington Consensus reforms, but many fulfilled the membership requirements of the...