Building States and Markets After Communism
Timothy Frye
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Description for Building States and Markets After Communism
hardcover. This book examines how democracy influences state-building and market-building in 25 post-communist countries from 1990 to 2004. Series: Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics. Num Pages: 312 pages, 6 b/w illus. 44 tables. BIC Classification: JPB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 57.
Does democracy promote the creation of market economies and robust state institutions? Do state-building and market-building go hand in hand? Or do they work at cross-purposes? This book examines the relationship between state-building and market-building in 25 post-communist countries from 1990 to 2004. Based on cross-national statistical analyses, surveys of business managers, and case studies from Russia, Bulgaria, Poland, and Uzbekistan, Timothy Frye demonstrates that democracy is associated with more economic reform, stronger state institutions, and higher social transfers when political polarization is low. But he also finds that increases in political polarization dampen the positive impact of democracy by ... Read more
Does democracy promote the creation of market economies and robust state institutions? Do state-building and market-building go hand in hand? Or do they work at cross-purposes? This book examines the relationship between state-building and market-building in 25 post-communist countries from 1990 to 2004. Based on cross-national statistical analyses, surveys of business managers, and case studies from Russia, Bulgaria, Poland, and Uzbekistan, Timothy Frye demonstrates that democracy is associated with more economic reform, stronger state institutions, and higher social transfers when political polarization is low. But he also finds that increases in political polarization dampen the positive impact of democracy by ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
Series
Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521767736
SKU
V9780521767736
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About Timothy Frye
Timothy Frye is the Marshall D. Shulman Professor of Post-Soviet Foreign Policy and the Director of the Harriman Institute at Columbia University. He previously taught at Ohio State University and has worked as a consultant for the World Bank, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the US Agency for International Development, and the Bloomberg Foundation. He is the author ... Read more
Reviews for Building States and Markets After Communism
“From a leading scholar of post-communist political and economic development comes a new analysis that applies a familiar insight – economic reforms are less credible when political polarization is severe and policy reversal more likely – to a new and important problem: distinct patterns of economic reform and growth since the fall of Communism in the countries of Eastern Europe ... Read more