Alternative Theoretical Approaches to Post-Communist Transformations in Central and Eastern Europe
Alternative Theoretical Approaches to Post-Communist Transformations in Central and Eastern Europe

Summary/Abstract: The authors argues that the alternative approaches reviewed in this article can provide a powerful theoretical understanding of interconnected political, economic, social, cultural and other changes that the former state socialist countries of CEE have been experiencing since the collapse of state socialism. Despite the fact that regulation theory is not an established unified theoretical system and its more sophisticated applications to CEE have been developed and applied only recently, its theoretical and conceptual framework is flexible, which allows it to draw on all alternative approaches identified in this paper and develop links with other theoretical approaches not discussed here such as theories of governance. For these reasons, the author considers regulation theory to be the most promising alternative approach for the understanding of complex changes resulting from the collapse of state socialism and post-communist transformations in CEE.

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