Preying on the State : : The Transformation of Bulgaria after 1989 /

Preying on the State : : The Transformation of Bulgaria after 1989 / / Venelin I. Ganev.

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Immediately after 1989, newly emerging polities in Eastern Europe had to contend with an overbearing and dominant legacy: the Soviet model of the state. At that time, the strength of the state looked like a massive obstacle to change; less than a decade later, the state's dominant characteristi...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
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Ganev, Venelin I.,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2013]
©2013
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (240 p.) :; 1 table
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. The Dysfunctionality of Post-Communist State Structures
  • 2. The Separation of Party and State as a Logistical Problem
  • 3. Conversions of Power
  • 4. Winners as State Breakers in Post-Communism
  • 5. Weak-State Constitutionalism
  • 6. The Shrewdness of the Tamed
  • 7. Post-Communism as an Episode of State Transformation
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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