Machine generated contents note: Foreword IntroductionGrowth and Structural Features of Transition: Theoretical Framework and General OverviewGovernance, Institutions and Growth: Empirical Lessons from the Post-Communist TransitionHuman capital and social capital as interacting factors of...

More than fifteen years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, many issues regarding the transition from a centrally planned economy to a market economy are still being debated. This book presents an evaluation of the transition in Central Eastern Europe, and focuses on the socialist legacy, the...

Ukraine Between the Orange Revolution and the EU -- European Governance and Transformation in Ukraine / G.P.E. Walzenbach -- The Ukrainian Project : A Hard Road from National Independence to the "Orange Revolution" / Petro Kuzyk -- Aspects of Nationhood--or its Absence -- Nationalism and...

Leading sociologists, economists, and political scientists here analyze current changes in Central and Eastern Europe. Drawing on a range of contemporary perspectives (such as evolutionary economics, and network analysis) they question many of the assumptions associated with the notion of...