Why some party-states collapse and others don't? Why some transformations are accompanied by economic crisis while others by economic growth? Are first political or economic transformation strategic alternatives? This paper comprises the essence of the author's comparative research on...

The Coasean way to deal with the cooperation failure that is implicit in Pareto inefficiency is to remove all possible obstacles to cooperation through the attribution of property rights and the reduction in transaction costs. The relevance of this approach is however undermined by some...

In this work, we study the topological transition in a model proposed by Saeedian \textit{et al.} (Scientific Reports 2019 \textbf{9}:9726), which considers a coupled dynamics of node and link states, on the network known as random geometric graph (RGG). In that approach, each node has two...

At present, there is no generally accepted accounting of the institutional strengths and weaknesses of the transition economies. The first goal of the paper is to fill this gap by assessing current levels of institutional development. The second is to examine which types of institutional...