Capital, Coercion, and Postcommunist States - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Capital, Coercion, and Postcommunist States write by Gerald M. Easter. This book was released on 2012-09-18. Capital, Coercion, and Postcommunist States available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The postcommunist transitions produced two very different types of states. The "contractual" state is associated with the countries of Eastern Europe, which moved toward democratic regimes, consensual relations with society, and clear boundaries between political power and economic wealth. The "predatory" state is associated with the successors to the USSR, which instead developed authoritarian regimes, coercive relations with society, and poorly defined boundaries between the political and economic realms. In Capital, Coercion, and Postcommunist States, Gerald M. Easter shows how the cumulative result of the many battles between state coercion and societal capital over taxation gave rise to these distinctive transition outcomes. Easter's fiscal sociology of the postcommunist state highlights the interconnected paths that led from the fiscal crisis of the old regime through the revenue bargains of transitional tax regimes to the eventual reconfiguration of state-society relations. His focused comparison of Poland and Russia exemplifies postcommunism's divergent institutional forms. The Polish case shows how conflicts over taxation influenced the emergence of a rule-of-law contractual state, social-market capitalism, and civil society. The Russian case reveals how revenue imperatives reinforced the emergence of a rule-by-law predatory state, concessions-style capitalism, and dependent society.
Capital, Coercion, and Postcommunist States
Capital, Coercion, and Postcommunist States - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Capital, Coercion, and Postcommunist States write by Gerald Easter. This book was released on 2012-10-15. Capital, Coercion, and Postcommunist States available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The postcommunist transitions produced two very different types of states. The "contractual" state is associated with the countries of Eastern Europe, which moved toward democratic regimes, consensual relations with society, and clear boundaries between political power and economic wealth. The "predatory" state is associated with the successors to the USSR, which instead developed authoritarian regimes, coercive relations with society, and poorly defined boundaries between the political and economic realms. In Capital, Coercion, and Postcommunist States, Gerald M. Easter shows how the cumulative result of the many battles between state coercion and societal capital over taxation gave rise to these distinctive transition outcomes. Easter's fiscal sociology of the postcommunist state highlights the interconnected paths that led from the fiscal crisis of the old regime through the revenue bargains of transitional tax regimes to the eventual reconfiguration of state-society relations. His focused comparison of Poland and Russia exemplifies postcommunism's divergent institutional forms. The Polish case shows how conflicts over taxation influenced the emergence of a rule-of-law contractual state, social-market capitalism, and civil society. The Russian case reveals how revenue imperatives reinforced the emergence of a rule-by-law predatory state, concessions-style capitalism, and dependent society.
Recenzja: "Capital, Coercion, and Postcommunist States"/ Gerald Easter. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2012. ISBN 0-8014-7824-3
Recenzja: "Capital, Coercion, and Postcommunist States"/ Gerald Easter. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2012. ISBN 0-8014-7824-3 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Recenzja: "Capital, Coercion, and Postcommunist States"/ Gerald Easter. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2012. ISBN 0-8014-7824-3 write by Piotr Korys. This book was released on 2015. Recenzja: "Capital, Coercion, and Postcommunist States"/ Gerald Easter. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2012. ISBN 0-8014-7824-3 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The State-Democracy Nexus
The State-Democracy Nexus - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The State-Democracy Nexus write by Jørgen Møller. This book was released on 2016-04-14. The State-Democracy Nexus available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The great dilemma of democracy revolves around the state. Historically, the state has played a crucial role as enforcer of liberal democratic constitutions, but it has also been used by autocratic rulers to entrench their rule. The state is thus a two-edged sword: It can both be the guarantee of democratic rights and a tool that can be used to suppress such rights. One corollary of this is that the influence of state structures on democratic development depends on who holds government power. But the opposite observation can also be made, as governments play an important role in shaping the state apparatus. The state and the regime are thus intertwined. Against this backdrop, this book presents a series of attempts – authored by influential experts such as Francis Fukuyama and Gerardo Munck – to disentangle the relationship between the state and political regimes. The contributions differ in terms of their particular theoretical and empirical focus. But they share the assumption that three criteria need to be observed to achieve a better understanding of the state-democracy nexus. First, it is valuable to distinguish conceptually between different aspects of the state. Second, the potential relationships between democracy and these attributes of state should be carefully theorized. Third, the consequent propositions must be interrogated using comparative approaches. This book was originally published as a special issue of Democratization.
Post-Communist Mafia State
Post-Communist Mafia State - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Post-Communist Mafia State write by B lint Magyar. This book was released on 2016-03-01. Post-Communist Mafia State available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Having won a two-third majority in Parliament at the 2010 elections, the Hungarian political party Fidesz removed many of the institutional obstacles of exerting power. Just like the party, the state itself was placed under the control of a single individual, who since then has applied the techniques used within his party to enforce submission and obedience onto society as a whole. In a new approach the author characterizes the system as the ?organized over-world?, the ?state employing mafia methods? and the ?adopted political family', applying these categories not as metaphors but elements of a coherent conceptual framework. The actions of the post-communist mafia state model are closely aligned with the interests of power and wealth concentrated in the hands of a small group of insiders. While the traditional mafia channeled wealth and economic players into its spheres of influence by means of direct coercion, the mafia state does the same by means of parliamentary legislation, legal prosecution, tax authority, police forces and secret service. The innovative conceptual framework of the book is important and timely not only for Hungary, but also for other post-communist countries subjected to autocratic rules. ÿ
