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The Handbook of Political, Social, and Economic Transformation

Wolfgang Merkel, Raj Kollmorgen, and Hans-Jürgen Wagener

Abstract

Political, social, and economic transformation is a complex historical phenomenon. It can be adequately analysed only by a multidisciplinary approach. This Handbook brings together an international team of scholars who are specialists in their respective research fields. They introduce the most important areas, theories, and methods in transformation research. Most attention is placed on the historical and comparative dimension. Although focusing on postcommunist and other democratic transformations in our epoch, the Handbook therefore presents and discusses not only their problems, paths, and ... More

Keywords: transformation, modernization, transition, revolution, theory, research methods, historical waves of transformation, postcommunism, regime change, democratization

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2019 Print ISBN-13: 9780198829911
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: March 2019 DOI:10.1093/oso/9780198829911.001.0001

Authors

Affiliations are at time of print publication.

Wolfgang Merkel, editor
Director of the research unit 'Democracy and Democratization', WZB Berlin Social Science Center and Professor of Political Science at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Raj Kollmorgen, editor
Professor of Sociology and Management of Social Change, University of Applied Sciences Zittau/Görlitz

Hans-Jürgen Wagener, editor
Professor Emeritus, European University Viadrina Frankfurt/Oder and Rijksuniversiteit Groningen

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Front Matter

Title Pages

List of Figures

List of Tables

List of Contributors

Chapter 1 Transformation and Transition Research: An Introduction

Wolfgang Merkel, Raj Kollmorgen, and Hans-Jürgen Wagener

Section I Theoretical Frameworks

Chapter 2 System

Wolfgang Merkel, Julian Brückner, and Hans-Jürgen Wagener

Chapter 3 Institutions

Stefan Voigt

Chapter 4 Actors

Wolfgang Merkel and Hans-Jürgen Wagener

Section II Research Approaches

Chapter 5 Modernization Theories

Raj Kollmorgen

Chapter 6 Transition Approaches

Julian Brückner

Chapter 7 Structuralism

Julian Brückner

Chapter 8 Cultural Approaches

Jan Kubik

Chapter 9 Historical Institutionalism and Societal Transformations

Christoph H. Stefes

Chapter 10 Development Economics and Transformation Studies

Malcolm H. Dunn and Joseph P. Ganahl

Chapter 11 Approaches to Transformation in Economics

Stefan Kolev and Joachim Zweynert

Chapter 12 Political Economy Approaches

Frank Bönker

Chapter 13 Political Steering Approach

Jürgen Beyer

Chapter 14 Political Mobilization Approaches

Karl-Dieter Opp

Chapter 15 Civil Society Approach

Grzegorz Ekiert

Chapter 16 Combining Theoretical Approaches

Raj Kollmorgen and Wolfgang Merkel

Section III Methods

Chapter 17 Macro-Qualitative Approaches

Carsten Q. Schneider

Chapter 18 Micro-Qualitative Research

Bruno Hildenbrand

Chapter 19 Quantitative Methods in Transformation Research

Gert Pickel and Susanne Pickel

Chapter 20 Ethnographic Methods

Tatjana Thelen

Chapter 21 Discourse Approaches

Johannes Angermuller and Raj Kollmorgen

Chapter 22 Economic Methods

Martin Myant and Jan Drahokoupil

Chapter 23 Comparative Methods in Transformation Research: Political Culture

Dirk Berg-Schlosser

Section IV Historic Waves and Types of Societal Transformations

Chapter 24 Post-absolutist Transformations in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

Raj Kollmorgen

Chapter 25 State-socialist Transformations in the Twentieth Century

Dieter Segert

Chapter 26 Transformation in Fascist Interbellum Europe

Alexander Nützenadel

Chapter 27 Democratic Transformations after the Second World War

Wolfgang Merkel and Johannes Gerschewski

Chapter 28 China’s Transformations in the Twentieth Century: Economic, Political, and Cultural Interdependencies

Carsten Herrmann-Pillath

Chapter 29 Postcolonial Transformations in Africa in the Twentieth Century

Siegmar Schmidt

Chapter 30 Islamist Transformations: From Utopian Vision to Dystopian Reality

Naser Ghobadzadeh

Chapter 31 Democratic Transitions in the Late Twentieth Century

Peter Thiery

Chapter 32 Post-socialist Transformations in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries

Raj Kollmorgen

Section V Spheres

Chapter 33 Civil Society

John Keane and Wolfgang Merkel

Chapter 34 Law

Christian Kirchner† and David Ehmke

Chapter 35 Economy

Hans-Jürgen Wagener

Section VI Basic Problems of Transformation

Chapter 36 Autocracy Promotion

Antje Kästner

Chapter 37 Collective Identities

Anton Sterbling

Chapter 38 Constitution-Building

Astrid Lorenz

Chapter 39 Corporate Actors: Parties and Associations

Bernhard Weßels

Chapter 40 Deconsolidation of Democracy in East Central Europe

Attila Ágh

Chapter 41 Defective Democracy

Aurel Croissant and Wolfgang Merkel

Chapter 42 Democracy Promotion

Julia Leininger

Chapter 43 Democratic Consolidation

Leonardo Morlino

Chapter 44 Demographic Transitions

Jürgen Dorbritz

Chapter 45 Dilemma of Simultaneity

Ilyas Saliba and Wolfgang Merkel

Chapter 46 Economic Restructuring

Michael Fritsch

Chapter 47 Elections and Transformation

Andreas Schedler

Chapter 48 Elites

Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser

Chapter 49 External Transformation Anchors

Vera Trappmann

Chapter 50 Founding Elections

Hans-Dieter Klingemann

Chapter 51 Gender Relations

Silke Roth and Charlie Walker

Chapter 52 Historical Legacies

Aurel Croissant

Chapter 53 Hybrid Regimes

Alexander Schmotz

Chapter 54 Institutional Transfer

Hans-Jürgen Wagener

Chapter 55 Internationalization

Herman W. Hoen

Chapter 56 Legal Systems and Economic Development

Katharina Pistor

Chapter 57 Legitimacy

Daniel Lambach

Chapter 58 Liberalization

László Csaba

Chapter 59 Macroeconomic Stabilization

Marek Dabrowski

Chapter 60 Mass Media

Barbara Thomaß

Chapter 61 Military Intervention

Sonja Grimm

Chapter 62 Monetary Transformation

Hubert Gabrisch

Chapter 63 Parties as Agents of Transition

Saara Inkinen

Chapter 64 Phases of Transformation

Wolfgang Merkel and Lea Heyne

Chapter 65 Political Culture

Detlef Pollack

Chapter 66 Political Repression

Dag Tanneberg

Chapter 67 Privatization

Bruno Dallago and Chiara Guglielmetti

Chapter 68 Property Rights

Thomas Apolte

Chapter 69 Regime Diffusion

Hans-Joachim Lauth

Chapter 70 Regional Disparities

Hans-Joachim Bürkner

Chapter 71 Religious Change

Detlef Pollack

Chapter 72 Rule of Law and Statehood

Anne van Aaken

Chapter 73 Social Capital

Kenneth Newton

Chapter 74 Social Inequalities

Raj Kollmorgen

Chapter 75 Social Security

Katharina Müller

Chapter 76 Stateness

Timm Beichelt

Chapter 77 Strategies of Economic Transformation

Vladimir Popov

Chapter 78 Transformation Crises

Jan Fidrmuc

Chapter 79 Transitional Justice

Brigitte Weiffen

Chapter 80 Value Change

Bernhard Weßels

End Matter

Name Index

Subject Index