Arien Mack, Editor Arien Mack Editor's Introduction In keeping with our policy to publish recurring issues on places in the world undergoing or recently having undergone marked changes, this issue looks at current aspects of the Russian state and society during a period of many deep, systemic changes. Anders Aslund Why Market Reform Succeeded and Democracy Failed in Russia The article looks at the reasons for the failure of democracy and the success of market reform in Russ

Arien Mack, Editor Richard Sennett The New Capitalism This article examines two propositions concerning the culture of a capitalist order...

Arien Mack, Editor János Kornai Paying the Bill for Goulash Communism: Hungarian Development and Macro Stabilization in a...

Arien Mack, Editor G. M. Tamás A Disquisition on Civil Society The article discusses aspects of the civil society and its relation to...

Arien Mack, Editor Bernard Flynn Reiner Schurmann (1941–1993) Arien Mack Editor's Introduction Claus Offe The Politics of Social Policy in East European Transitions: Antecedents, Agents, and Agenda of Reform This article focuses on problems regarding social policy in postcommunist societies in Eastern Europe. Postcommunist political economies face three problems of transformation: property must be privatized; prices must be liberalized or marketized; and the state budget m

Arien Mack, Editor Jeffrey C. Goldfarb Introduction Jean Bethke Elshtain Politics without Cliche This article focuses on the use of...

Arien Mack, Editor Arien Mack Editor's Introduction Jerzy Szacki Polish Democracy: Dreams and Reality Discusses the iconographic...

Arien Mack, Editor Jeffrey Goldfarb Post-Totalitarian Politics: Ideology Ends Again This article focuses on post-communism politics. In...

Arien Mack, Editor Arien Mack Editor’s Introduction György Bence Social Theory in Transition "The papers collected in this second East...