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Transition in CEE countries : experiences and future perspectives

Papers collected in this book are presented in the international scientific conference "Transition in CEE Countries: Experiences and Future Perspectives"” that was held on November 3-4th 2006 in Dubrovnik. The Conference was organized by the Political Science Research Centre Forum in cooperation with the University of Dubrovnik. It gathered eminent scientists from Croatia and European countries that are positioned in different scientific orientation and points of view. Papers in the book discuss different transition phenomena, from general theoretical issues to very specific transformation processes in particular countries. Papers in this collection could be roughly divided into two main parts. The first one includes papers that analyse and discuss general theoretical and conceptual insights and consequences regarding the transition processes. This is mainly case with the papers of the following authors: Philippe C. Schmitter, Anđelko Milardović, Pero Maldini and Mislav Kukoč. Their papers provide theoretical overviews of the theories of consolidated democracy, Europeanization, socio-cultural values, multi-culturalism and the issue of sovereignty. The second group consists of papers with more specific analysis ; either they are focused on particular aspects of transition process in Central and Eastern European countries or they are aiming to offer broader understanding of transition pattern in specific countries. This group of papers includes the works of Mate Szabo, Jacek Klich, Vladimira Dvorakova, Davorka Vidović, Davor Pauković and Tomaž Deželan and Damjan Lajh. Their papers examine subjects such as: dealing with the past and lustration, protests in the countries pre- and post-1991, ideologies and their role in transition process, citizenship and the nature of the franchise, social policy change in terms of welfare in transition. Different theoretical approaches and thematic diversity of presented papers form a multidisciplinary character of the book. The studies mainly used the comparative approach, which is in theoretical and practical sense actually inherent to the subject of democratic transition. In the scope of social sciences this book has managed to offer a relatively wide image of specific features and different experiences of democratic transition, as well as of ways of thinking and interpreting contemporary social reality in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe.

transition; democracy; CEE countries

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