Obra de autoria de Jon Elster, Claus Offe, Ulrich K. Preuss, Frank Boenker, Ulrike Goetting e Friedbert W. Rueb

Introduction: Agenda, agency, and the aims of central east Europpean transitions The particular character of the central and east European transitions The role of military force and conflict The political context: eak agents, diverse aspirations The agenda: economic interests, political institutions, national identities The demise of European state socialism Consolidating the new order by institutionalizing agency: who shall be in charge? Mapping eastern Europe Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary at the outset of transformation: comparative country profiles The demise of communist rule: modes of extrication Constitutional politics in eastern Europe Constitution making Constitution structure and provisions Building and consolidating democracies The choice and consequences of the electoral systems Political parties, cleavage structures, and party systems: the prospects for party competition Building capitalism in eastern Europe The state of the economic reform: constraints, dilemmas, paradoxes Bringing the state back out The furnishing of capitalism The long road to functioning markets Socialk policy transformation The old welfare regime and the reform ambitions after 1989 Reform policies since 1989: institutional continuities and changes in the realm of social policy Management of social protection: from state command to interest coordination Comparative assessment: state of reform and performance Consolidation and the cleavages of ideology and identify Categorical conflicts and class conflicts Ethnic and other "identify-based" cleavages Politico-ideological cleavages Conclusion: the unfinished project Criteria and prerequisites of consolidation Evaluation of the outcomes of the transition process in the four countries under study How to explain the ranking