Preying on the state : the transformation of Bulgaria after 1989 /
Immediately after 1989, newly emerging polities in Eastern Europe had to contend with an overbearing and dominant legacy: the Soviet model of the state. At that time, the strength of the state looked like a massive obstacle to change; less than a decade later, the state's dominant characteristi...
Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
2007.
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- The dysfunctionality of post-communist state structures
- The separation of party and state as a logistical problem
- Conversions of power
- Winners as state breakers in post-communism
- Weak-state constitutionalism
- The shrewdness of the tamed
- Post-communism as an episode of state formation.