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Browsing Department of Political and Social Sciences (SPS) by Subject "transition"
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Title:Nationalism and Transitions: Mobilizing for democracy in Yugoslavia
Author(s):RITTER, Daniel P.Date:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI SPS; COSMOS; 2012/03Abstract:The Yugoslav transition(s) to democracy is perhaps the most complex of all the Eastern European cases. It can be argued that Yugoslavia enjoyed the most favorable initial conditions of any country in the region: the regime ...
Title:Civil Society and the Velvet Revolution: Mobilizing for democracy in Czechoslovakia
Author(s):RITTER, Daniel P.Date:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI SPS; COSMOS; 2012/04Abstract:In the late 1980s Czechoslovakia was considered one of the most repressive countries in Eastern Europe and a staunch Soviet ally. In the aftermath of the 'Prague Spring' of 1968, repressed with Soviet help, the regime ...
Title:Civil Society and the Paralyzed State: Mobilizing for democracy in East Germany
Author(s):RITTER, Daniel P.Date:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI SPS; COSMOS; 2012/06Abstract:Among cases of transition to democracy from below, the East German one constitutes a particularly challenging puzzle. Whereas social movements taking advantage of an oppositional space within a repressive context have ...
Title:Grassroots Groups and Civil Society Actors in Pro-Democratic Transitions in Poland
Author(s):PIOTROWSKI, GrzegorzDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI SPS; COSMOS; 2012/07Abstract:The transition to democracy in 1989 in Central and Eastern Europe is said to be the achievement of the dissident sector. In Poland the biggest power in the democratization process was the Solidarność trade union. At the ...
Title:Reluctant Rulers and the Negotiated Transition: Mobilizing for democracy in Hungary
Author(s):RITTER, Daniel P.Date:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI SPS; COSMOS; 2012/09Abstract:Among the Eastern European democratization processes of the 1989 period, Hungary stands out as the least dramatic transition in the region. Whereas other countries experienced massive demonstrations in favor of democratic ...
Title:Political Economy of Old-age Pension Reforms in Georgia
Author(s):GUGUSHVILI, AlexiDate:2009Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:The paper examines the factors that played a major role in development of the old-age pension system in Georgia. Based on data collected from 1991-2009, this analysis centers on the system’s patterns of development and ...
Title:The Missing Link The Transition from Education to Labour in the Soviet Union Revisited
Author(s):REITER, HerwigDate:2006Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI SPS; 2006/07Abstract:The post-communist assessment of communist youth transitions to work is at risk of exaggerating the assumption of previously existing predefined and predictable channels into work. In order to allow a somewhat refined ...
