State and Society in Post-Socialist Economies

1. The Spirit of Post-Socialism: ‘What Is to Be Understood by It?’

1. The Spirit of Post-Socialism: ‘What Is to Be Understood by It?’
John Pickles

Part 1. Economic Governance, the State and Varieties of Capitalism

2. Leading Sectors and the Variety of Capitalism in Eastern Europe
Béla Greskovits

3. Transnational Actors and Corporate Governance in ECE: the Case of the EU and the Czech Republic
Arjan Vliegenthart

4. On the State of the State: The Czech Transformation and the Moment of Convergence in the Visegrád Region
Jan Drahokoupil

5. Corporate Control Models in Russian Companies and Business Integration
Tatiana G. Dolgopyatova

6. Diverging and Harmonizing Corporate Governance in Russia
Satoshi Mizobata

Part 2. Social Mobilization and Economic Transformation

7. State-Society Relations in Belarus: A ‘labour dimension’
Kiryl Haiduk

8. Trade Unions and the Labour Market in Four New European Union Member States
Massimo Congiu

9. You ‘Can’ Take It with You: Cultural Capital, State Regulation and Tourism in Post-socialist Bulgaria
Kristen Ghodsee

10. State Policies, Uneven Economic Development and Environmental Regulation in Urban and Rural Lithuania
Jurgita Maciulyte

11. Building a Social Cause in Post-Communist Countries: Ecological Politics in the Czech Republic
Sandrine Devaux

12. Informal Practice, Cultural Capital and Politics in the Czech Republic, Slovenia, Bulgaria and Romania
Åse B. Grødeland

13. Conclusion: State, Society and Hybrid Post-Socialist Economies
John Pickles

Keywords: Political Science and International Relations, European Politics, European Union Politics, Political History, Political Economy, Political Theory, Political Science